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Amaral Lab

@amarallab.bsky.social
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We are the Amaral Lab at Northwestern University. We study Complex Systems, Science of Science, and Systems Biology. Website: amaral.northwestern.edu

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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
And of course, all of this is related to this article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Crain's Chicago Business: www.chicagobusiness.com/health-pulse...
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Endeavor, Northwestern develop AI tool for critical lung condition diagnosis
Researchers say the success identifying acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, shows the promise of AI diagnostics tools across an array of conditions.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Becker's Health IT: www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-i...
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Endeavor, Northwestern partner on AI tool to detect lung condition - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis
Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health is piloting a computer program developed with Northwestern University in Evanston that aims to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common but hard-to-dia...
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Our @natcomms.nature.com paper on AI for ARDS detection was just featured in the Chicago Tribune and other places! 📰 🔗 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/28/a...
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Our very own, Felix Morales, just wrote up a blog post summarizing our @natcomms.nature.com article on automating the diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome! Check it out: medium.com/@fmoralcabal... #HealthInformatics #AIinHealthcare #CriticalCare #ARDS
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ARDS: A Common, Deadly Syndrome That’s Easy to Miss
I just recently had a cool AI in Healthcare paper published in Nature Communications!
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
See below for the first author's @reeserichardson.bsky.social reflections on the latest @pnas.org article from the lab!
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Gift link to Exhibit 1: nyti.ms/45rDirw
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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Exhibit 6: phys.org/news/2025-08...
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Organized scientific fraud is growing at an alarming rate, study uncovers
From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Exhibit 5: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
cen.acs.org
Brokers of scientific fraud growing rapidly, study finds
Publishers are not keeping up with paper mills and other purveyors of shoddy academic papers
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Exhibit 4: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds
Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Exhibit 3: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE
Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Exhibit 2: www.wsj.com/science/scie...
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Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With Flood of Fake Papers
The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” businesses or individuals that charge fees to publish fake studies in legitimate journals.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Our latest publication in @pnas.org "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly", by @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, Spencer Hong, has received quite a bit of press! Exhibit 1: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
nytimes.com
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
4/ These findings challenge the idea that fraud is just a matter of bad actors working alone. Instead, we’re looking at a system—and one that’s getting better at evading detection. Full paper here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceFraud #PNAS
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
3/ Through case studies, we show how: Authors cooperate to place fraudulent papers Brokers target specific journals Certain subfields are more vulnerable than others Fraudulent publications are increasing faster than legitimate ones
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
2/ We go beyond the “paper mill” problem and uncover a broader network of brokers, editors, and authors who collaborate to bypass traditional peer review. These coordinated efforts can lead to the publication of fabricated research at scale.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🧵 1/ New from @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, and our lab in @pnas.org : A growing body of evidence shows that "systematic" scientific fraud is an emerging threat to the integrity of science. Our latest study investigates how this fraud is organized and sustained.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
4/ These findings challenge the idea that fraud is just a matter of bad actors working alone. Instead, we’re looking at a system—and one that’s getting better at evading detection. Full paper here (currently paywalled): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceFraud #PNAS
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
3/ Through case studies, we show how: Authors cooperate to place fraudulent papers Brokers target specific journals Certain subfields are more vulnerable than others Fraudulent publications are increasing faster than legitimate ones
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
2/ We go beyond the “paper mill” problem and uncover a broader network of brokers, editors, and authors who collaborate to bypass traditional peer review. These coordinated efforts can lead to the publication of fabricated research at scale.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Huge congratulations to the newly-minted Dr. Huaxia Zhou on successfully defending his dissertation! We’re so proud of all he’s accomplished, and we'll be posting on his work as it goes to press. He’s now headed to Tucson, AZ for a postdoc—wishing him all the best in this exciting next chapter!
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This work was driven by Amaralians Felix Morales and Feihong Xu, in collaboration with Curtis Weiss, MD, from @endeavorhlth.bsky.social
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We’re thrilled to share that our work on automating detection of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) was just published in @natcomms.nature.com! The tool flagged ARDS with higher sensitivity than an internal medicine physician. Learn more: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Open-source computational pipeline flags instances of acute respiratory distress syndrome in mechanically ventilated adult patients - Nature Communications
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in intensive care unit patients is an often underdiagnosed but life-threatening condition. Here, the authors develop an open-source tool that uses machine le...
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Congratulations to @reeserichardson.bsky.social and others on their latest publication in PLOS ONE! They scanned 1M+ materials science papers and found 1 in 5 with mismatched SEM metadata—often tied to flawed results and signs of paper mills. A potential way to flag questionable science.
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Driven by Amaralians Felix Morales and Feihong Xu, this work was done in collaboration with Curtis Weiss, MD from @endeavorhlth.bsky.social
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Mohammad Hosseini @mhmdhsini.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Using #AI in #genetics & #genomics research can be beneficial, but the risks to humans, other sentient beings, and the #environment remain mostly unknown. I & Chris Donohue argue that the ethical discourse should be expanded & we need to develop appropriate guidance. More here: rdcu.be/d1S5e
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Martin Borch Jensen @martinbjensen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Rigorous study by Thomas Stoeger, Scott Budinger et al spots decreases in rel abundance of long transcripts with age in both mouse and human samples. I don't fully agree with their interpretation of longevity intervention effects but core data is strong. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance - Nature Aging
The authors found that, across tissues and in multiple datasets, aging is accompanied by a length-associated transcriptome imbalance. In most cases, a decrease in the relative abundance of long transc...
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Amaral Lab @amarallab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This was a very insightful read! There is a price to pay for making hard pivots in science and technology. By @dashunwang.bsky.social's group. Read here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The pivot penalty in research - Nature
An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their prev...
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