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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials. These may be fraudulent, or subject to critical errors. INSPECT-SR is a tool to assess trustworthiness of RCTs - out today: www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials, where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings. Such concerns could b...

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/09/2026

"Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include" INSPECT-SR was published yesterday, giving concrete guidance on how to exclude untrustworthy studies. Cochrane's statement: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Article: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Guidance: inspect-sr.com

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New tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence | Cochrane

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Biostatisticians! At ISCB AGM-> Proposal for a new subcom: statistics review Are we still firefighting/can we be more effective if we coordinate? @statsepi.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social @benvancalster.bsky.social @gscollins.bsky.social @laurewynants.bsky.social

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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 24/09/2026

INSPECT-SR – a tool for assessing the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials – has been published today in @bmj.com, giving researchers a structured way to identify problematic studies before they're included in systematic reviews. 🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #ResearchIntegrity

“Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include.” — phrased as a Cochrane senior research integrity editor; a magnifying glass rests on stacked papers in the background to emphasize careful scrutiny of research.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In every talk on code-sharing, someone says ‘no one will actually ever check it’. But I guess it will become a lot more common with LLMs? Ugh, will be a headache if (when) people with no understanding do this.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI is screwing up journal papers: Journal editor asks authors of 10 submitted papers to meet and discuss their paper. Of the 7 that showed up, 3 were unable to answer basic questions about the paper and 3 had difficulty when asked further questions on technical details… medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

By Nihar B. Shah

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Time to spend the day deviating from planned analysis at the request of a journal (and listing the deviations, obv)

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My inbox felt like Vampire Survivors today

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Research is so much more difficult when you care about research integrity. This is why it will never be a priority for most researchers. Researchers benefit from lax standards.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026

I am once again begging everyone who supervises student theses to stop making students conduct mediation analyses because “a regression isn’t complicated enough for a thesis” 😭

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 20/08/2026

Could you check if you can see our website without errors/warning and let me know if not? We moved the INSPECT-SR guidance website from inspect.sr to inspect-sr.com because some networks were blocking the somewhat obscure .sr domain. Oddly, I have a report that the latter is throwing warnings too.

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INSPECT-SR Guidance

INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

inspect-sr.com is the home of the INSPECT-SR guidance. Please don’t use INSPECT-SR without it!

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INSPECT-SR Guidance

INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/08/2026

Some firewalls and networks didn't like inspect.sr, so now inspect-sr.com also points to the same site. Thanks to @steamtraen.eu and others for feedback.

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INSPECT-SR Guidance

INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 13/08/2026

Any suggestions for semi-popular online chi-square calculators? Sometimes less experienced people use them. To validate my {recalc} package, I'm reverse engineering them to make sure the package accommodate their results, as long as they're correct and sane. These are the ones I have already.

* https://www.statscalculators.com/
* https://www.statskingdom.com/
* https://www.omnicalculator.com/statistics
* https://www.statulator.com/
* https://www.danielsoper.com/statcalc/default.aspx
* https://statisticscalculators.com/
* https://statpages.info/
* https://numiqo.com/statistics-calculator/descriptive-statistics
* https://www.standarddeviationcalculator.io/chi-square-calculator
* https://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/chisquare/
* https://www.medcalc.org/en/calc/chisquared-2way.php
* https://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/chisquare2/calculator/
* https://biomath.med.uth.gr/statistics/chi_square.html
* https://www.appinio.com/en/tools/chi-square-calculator

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There’s a scene in Succession after Tom has been put in charge of Cruises, and he goes to Ken to make him aware of the serious problems at the department. And Ken is like ‘I do not want to know about this. It is your job to make sure I don’t find out.’ A lot of PIs are like this.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just received the email about OSF no longer hosting projects...yikes. Suggestions for other places to host files and resources for readers?

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What a shocker. A brilliant writer - he singlehandedly got me hooked on Japanese mystery fiction with Suspect X and was so prolific (even in translation which was only a fraction of his books).

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Marion Campbell @marionkcampbell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We are hiring!! Our trials unit, CHaRT, is looking to appoint a Deputy Director (Methodology). The role will provide methodological leadership across CHaRT’s portfolio. A really exciting opportunity for anyone interested in a leadership role in clinical trials!! See: www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

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Deputy Director (Methodology), Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition (ACE014A) | The University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen Research Jobs

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

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RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Waiting until the day of the talk to write the final 1/3 of the talk 😎🚗

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

‘I can’t reproduce your main result’. ‘You can reproduce it if you use best stats calculators dot com’

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

People are out there analysing RCTs using websites with names like ‘best stats calculators dot com’

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Oh no you’re way behind Jack (Can’t believe you made me dig out ttespoof.pdf)

Spoof paper titled ‘Extending target trial approaches to case series,
case reports and opinions shared on facebook’

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Just as publishers are waking up to the threats from paper mills, they are adopting a new approach to keep one step ahead, as explained in this guest blogpost by Matt Spick. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-... #researchintegrity #publishing #papermills

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How paper mills go straight (without going clean): a shift to dual-use services

Guest post by Matt Spick Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.com From relative obscurity, paper mills have recently mo...

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Before you watch a talk about an RCT at #ESHRE2026 , find and read the registration for that trial. Look at the history of changes. Does it match what they are presenting? ESHRE typically very poor at monitoring this for submitted abstracts, so don’t assume someone else has checked this for you.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Old Me would have posted about the RCT article. The New Me is much happier, gets more work done, plays more videogames

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As they cuff me and take me away, I’ll be screaming ‘it’s just a cohort study! It’s a cohort study with a table describing a study that didn’t happen!’

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Shout out to everyone who decided to make a last-minute very minor change to wording on a grant, then submitted the grant, then realised the cursor had gone to the top of the doc so the grant has a couple of random words at the top

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Researcher Development @ Leeds @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🆕 #ResearchCultureUncovered episode. How much can we trust the published evidence? From paper mills to AI generated studies, Dr Emily Goodall @dremilygoodall.bsky.social & Dr Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social unpack the rise of problematic research & what we can do about it.

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(Episode 162) Can we trust the evidence? Spotting problematic research in healthcare

Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New preprint showing that suspected paper mill papers get more citations (50 to 100% more) than non-suspect papers, but have fewer readers. This odd pattern is explainable by the mills citing their past papers in their new papers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Sometimes a funder has guidance, but the funding panel doesn't really know the guidance, and so assesses your funding application on the wrong criteria. Pretty good!

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A recording of the May 15th Introduction to INSPECT-SR Workshop is now available: youtu.be/0uNB7j1CshY (will advertise some more dates soon)

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Introduction to INSPECT SR Workshop (May 15th 2026)

YouTube video by Jack Wilkinson

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If you've tried using INSPECT-SR to assess non-randomised studies and would be up for having a quick chat about your experience using it, let me know!

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The standard of discussion around trustworthiness assessment of RCTs is pretty abysmal. It is a field with almost no expertise!

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Calvin Heal has a poster (57) about INSPECT-IPD: a trustworthiness tool for clinical trials when raw data can be accessed #WCRI2026

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You may not realise it, but point estimates are ruining your life

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can accommodate some more people at this Introduction to INSPECT-SR workshop tomorrow (April 30th). Book here or email/ message me directly: www.trybooking.com/uk/GATM It says (N America) because the time was chosen for that region, but all welcome

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INSPECT-SR Training Workshop April (N America)

An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper? To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries. Link below!

A boxplot with authorship slot (1st author through 5th author) on the x axis and price in USD on the y axis. Prices are split by paper mill of origin.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We need a new videogame to get into. Nothing has really filled the void left behind by Blue Prince last year. Enjoyed Blake Manor, but that’s done. Any suggestions? Any format.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Think we have people from every continent registered to attend the next INSPECT-SR training workshop. Join them! Times shown are UK - Thursday 30th April 6pm (see next for May date) www.trybooking.com/uk/GATM

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INSPECT-SR Training Workshop April (N America)

An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Responding to an AI peer review is so disheartening.

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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The ERROR project recruits independent experts to recheck social sciences papers’ data, statistics, methodology, code; now the project plans to publish the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal. science.org/content/arti... @dalmeet.bsky.social @science.org #reproducibility

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Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work

The ERROR project tried enticing reviewers with payments. Now, it’s launching a journal—and promising papers as rewards

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