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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

They moved us to Junior B! More chairs! More space!

Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Whew, that's a lot of people signed up for our panel! We'll be talking about Safeguarding Research Integrity today at 2:30 pm, room Junior A at #CSEDurham

Promotional banner for a highly attended session at the CSE 2026 annual meeting on Safeguarding Research Integrity: Editorial Perspectives on AI, Research Integrity, and Trust today at 2:30 pm, room Junior A

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm looking forward to my first CSE! Our panel will have three different perspectives on AI in publishing, so it should be an interesting discussion 😄

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Cabells @cabells.com · 06/01/2026

#Research integrity solutions need to scale both ways www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi... via @researchinfo.bsky.social "Considering the needs of smaller #publishers will yield more efficacious solutions and implementation at every scale, writes Danielle Padula."

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Research integrity solutions need to scale both ways - Research Information

Considering the needs of smaller publishers will yield more efficacious solutions and implementation at every scale, writes Danielle Padula

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My favorite Advent calendar of the year!! These are such great teaching tools

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Dead Neanderthals @deadneanderthals.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology! I'm very conflicted about the project: proud because it feels like the most important project I've ever been a part of, but also very sad that we found so many problems in our field. Read the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Our team wanted to shout out data sharing, open science practices, and responsible authorship, because transparency and accountability are important components of building trust in the integrity of an author's research!

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Something that keeps coming up during #PublicationIntegrityWeek is that (1) research integrity/ethics is a systemic issue that requires investment from every single stakeholder for meaningful change and (2) all of these groups have different ideas about what the others should be responsible for

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Restrained clapping doesn't seem like enough for the presentations at #PRC10, I want to throw roses or something 🌹

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

But did you get a photo?

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Nihar Shah absolutely winning at presentations with a musical fanfare intro and a costume change to discuss anonymizing reviewers to each other in peer review discussions (I have some bias as a Star Wars fan!) #PRC10

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm excited to be attending the Peer Review Congress this week! It's always fascinating to hear about the research on strategies and signs of misconduct, but I'm equally looking forward to learning about ways we can improve peer review and the publishing process as a whole for researchers #PRC10

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AIP Publishing @aip-publishing.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Have questions about #publishing? Catch up with Martin Rosillo-Lopez, Journal Manager of The Journal of Chemical Physics and APL Machine Learning at WATOC to talk about your research. Not attending? Visit us👇 aippub.org/4kMjMfN

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

SJSU has announced AN ENTIRE CONFERENCE on @defendresearch.bsky.social 's 📜 to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship 😱 This is what grassroots advocacy can do. Call for papers is open! #academicsky #sciencesky #scholcomm #openscience friends - submit! scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

Screenshot of text that says: This conference aims to build on the Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship and to provide researchers, librarians, publishers, research administrators, and concerned citizens a chance to share their experiences and strategies in addressing and countering government censorship in the research process. We especially invite participants from outside the United States to share their perspectives and experience in navigating the impacts of political change on the research process.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 19/05/2025

📣 NEW: The Top 7 Myths of Science Manipulation - as shared by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh. @mcintold.bsky.social Leslie's busting myths and speaking truths. Do any of these connect with you? 🔗 See her latest post on the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/science-ma...

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I've created a public link to the dashboard on a paper mill I'm currently investigating. It's possible to track the dynamics of paper mill identification. Later, I'll add a reaction profile, which is currently at zero. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36... #papermills

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ALTRA PAPER MILL

Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Great opportunity to study paper mills in Leiden.

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Happy to share a new paper on paper mills, co-authored with @deevybee.bsky.social and P.Matusz, focusing on Tanu.pro paper mill. We examine how fraudulent papers target soc-sci journals, a field where the infiltration of industrial fraud has been less explored onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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The Threat of Paper Mills to Biomedical and Social Science Journals: The Case of the Tanu.pro Paper Mill in Mind, Brain, and Education

Fraudulent published papers were once thought to be rare, but in recent years, there has been growing awareness of coordinated activities by for-profit organizations that charge authors a fee to sell...

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Incredibly insightful panel about the numerous challenges whistleblowers face trying to shed light on untrustworthy science. There are a lot of opportunities for publishers and institutions to build bridges with the sleuth community and support their work!

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ORCID @orcid.org · 31/03/2025

⏳ Can't make it live? Register for the April 8 webinar, and we'll send you the recording & materials afterward! 🎥📚 Join Joy Owango (TCC Africa) as we explore the Africa Research Integrity Initiative. 📅 Register: shorturl.at/CCmuc #ResearchIntegrity #ORCIDEvents

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Excited to be attending my first STM US conference this week! I'm curious to hear from other publishers about what technology solutions + human expertise they've found to be most effective in combatting misconduct #STMinDC

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Very excited to speak on this panel tomorrow with Nathan Ballantyne, Lauran Qualkenbush, and Lucas Van Wyk Joe about how the process of correcting the scientific scholarly record can also be a way to build trust among scientists and the public summit.aps.org/events/MAR-E...

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Building Trust in the Integrity of Science

10:00 am – 11:00 am, Tuesday March 18, Session MAR-EV14, Anaheim Hilton, Catalina 4

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Interested in publication ethics and research integrity? Want to work at a great company that's committed to putting research integrity ahead of profit and publishing only articles that truly add to the body of scientific knowledge? Come work with me! job-boards.greenhouse.io/aippublishin...

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Research Integrity and Ethics Specialist

Remote - NY, NJ, CT, MD, VA, PA, MA, RI or Washington, DC

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João Borges @joao-borges.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

‼️ @julianavidal.bsky.social & I are organizing a symp @ #IUPAC2025🇲🇾 👉Abstracts welcome by 📅 Feb 28 on actions toward sustainable future🌍 🔗 iupac2025.org/abstract-sub... Cluster I -> #greenchemistry ->Symp 16 🗣️Hear from amazing @chemmouse.bsky.social & Jane Wissinger 🙌 @iupac.bsky.social #chemsky

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Society for Scholarly Publishing @scholarlypub.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The SSP Originals Auction is back! Members, supporters, and meeting attend... societyscholarlypublishing.betterwo…

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Whistleblowers deserve support when it comes to navigating the legal nuances of reporting fraud and misconduct -- the fear of retaliation, lack of organizational protection, and lack of compensation make investigating difficult to sustain.

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 08/01/2025

The ancient technique of dry farming, an Indigenous Hopi tradition, allows squash, melons, and corn crops to grow without irrigation. buff.ly/41XsCAF

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Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

The ancient technique of dry farming, an Indigenous Hopi tradition, allows squash, melons, and corn to grow without irrigation.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 08/01/2025

Our very own @mcintold.bsky.social of @digital-science.com rounds up the crazy year for Forensic Scientometrics that was 2024: fosci.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...

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Rise of problematic publications: The amount of disinformation moving through scientific journals and conferences has risen dramatically. PaperMills, predatory journals and the like enable the promotion of people and junk science to clog the pores of knowledge.

Disinformation laundering from people, organizations, and governments pushing non-scientific agendas into scientific-looking papers. These distortions pollute the evidence-base that informs policy decisions and can undermine public trust in research.

Threat of foreign interference in federally funded research: Concerns have grown over foreign governments exploiting academia to steal intellectual property and sensitive research data from government-sponsored projects, putting national security at risk.

AI use and misuse in research: AI technology is powerful and multi-purpose. Without oversight, AI can and is being used by bad actors for unethical purposes like surveillance, social control, or weaponization surrounding science. This technological advancement allows for vast creations of believable profiles to media and scholarly manipulation.

From: https://fosci.substack.com/p/a-reflection-on-2024

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I wonder how much of an impact double-blinded review (i.e., hidden author names and institutions) would have on these rejection rates based on language?

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Very excited to see support and recognition of the work done by independent integrity sleuths, and I hope this encourages more people to get involved!

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"...the choice of tools and metrics [for research integrity] has gone from a dearth a couple of years ago, to overload...In many ways, the challenge of abundance is a good problem to have and indicative of the stage of development of this new function that publishers find themselves with."

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

My mom, most of the year: Look at this cute vase I found! Nordstrom was having a sale on cardigans! I got a great deal on some lawn chairs! My mom, on Christmas and her birthday: Don't get me anything I've taken up Swedish Death Cleaning and renouncing material possessions

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13/12/2024

Yup

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Education in #researchethics = series of horror stories: Researchers exploiting communities to further their work. #extractiveprocesses of research mine ppl instead of the land. ~"To decolonize a system is to think about EVERY part" #lindatuhiwaismith #openaccess #DOASummit2024 #academicsky

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Citizen science is crucial for helping detect invasive non-native species early, a Europe-wide study has found. Researchers assessed time lags between 600+ first reports of non-native species by citizen scientists and official observations by scientists. 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪 1/

Harlequin ladybird. A massive citizen science effort helped track the spread of this species in the UK.

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

One of the challenges of cleaning out your belongings to declutter your home is knowing with 100% certainty that throwing away your 18 year old undergraduate science notebooks WILL kill you.

Notebook page with notes on triglyceride metabolism. In the background, clutter.

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"I can blame the near-mindless use of publications as a proxy for evaluation. You want papers? You insist on papers? Papers, then, are what you will get, and plenty of them." 🔥

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I wish there was a way to distinguish between "lower-case r" retractions (mistakes are part of the research process and it is commendable to correct them) and "capital R" Retractions (deliberate misconduct pollutes the body of knowledge and wastes other people's time and resources)

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VivienM @vivienm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In my Etsy adventures I came across this T-shirt #chemsky likely knows all about this..got some advice from some kind experts. A 🧵 to please kindly heed

A t-shirt with the table of elements and a chart of 'the lickable' ones There's a question: Can I lick it? It's color-coded to indicate: Sure, go for it, Maybe not the best idea, Please don't do that, See you on the other side

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

getting caught up on the SCOTUS arguments and fucking hell if you're a cis person in STEM and feeling like there's not anything you can do, seems like a good time to repost our open letter from earlier this year that lists specific actions individuals + institutions can take:

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OpenLetterTransRightsSTEM20231020.pdf

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Tana @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

You won’t want to miss this amazing workshop for first-time reviewers on How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews, with @reviewerzero.bsky.social on December 4th! Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Blackademics 🧪

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Allegra Torres @allegra-lt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I have reluctantly become a morning bird for COPE Publication Integrity Week but the conversations are worth it!

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This amazing thread by @laurahelmuth.bsky.social is about the power of science journalism (tragically under attack), but I’d say it also speaks to the political power/responsibility of science overall bsky.app/profile/laur...

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