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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lunchtime project. What goes in Ragu Bolognese? According to this (convenience) sample of 30 recipes by celebrity chefs, there's plenty of variation! Thanks, GPT-Astra. And apologies if anyone is actually from Bologna and feeling horrified.

Sankey diagram showing wine and milk/cream choices across 30 bolognese recipes. Ribbon widths represent numbers of recipes, not ingredient quantities. Ten recipes use red wine, nine white, three allow either red or white, one uses both, one uses rosé, and six use no wine. Milk or cream is required in 12 recipes, optional in one, and absent in 17. White-wine recipes more often require milk or cream: six of nine, compared with three of ten red-wine recipes. Seven red-wine recipes and five of the six wine-free recipes contain no milk or cream.

Horizontal dot-and-line chart comparing wine added before cooking across 30 bolognese recipes, measured in millilitres per kilogram of main meat and ordered from highest to lowest. Among the 23 recipes with specified wine quantities, amounts range from Mary Berry’s 150 ml/kg to Marcella Hazan’s 695 ml/kg. Ina Garten follows at 652 ml/kg and Neil Perry at 625 ml/kg. Six recipes list no wine and appear at zero. Antonio Carluccio’s recipe specifies a glass without its volume, so it is labelled “Unspecified glass” rather than assigned a numerical value.

Three horizontal dot-and-line charts summarise ingredient choices across 30 bolognese recipes, each using a scale from 0 to 30 recipes. For main meat, 11 use beef and pork, nine beef, three beef and veal, three a three-meat blend, two an alternative mix, one pork sausage and one chicken. For wine, ten use red, nine white, six list none, three allow either red or white, one uses both, and one rosé. Milk or cream is not listed in 17 recipes, required in 12 and optional in one. Main meat excludes cured pork and liver; milk/cream excludes cheese, butter and serving additions. The charts show recipe counts, not quantities or quality rankings.

Horizontal dot-and-line chart showing how often eight ingredients are required in the sauces of 30 bolognese recipes, ordered from most to least common. Onion appears in 27 recipes, garlic in 24, carrot in 22, celery in 20, cured pork in 14, milk or cream in 12, and mushrooms and liver in two each. Onion is the most common ingredient shown; mushrooms and liver are the least common. Values count recipes, not ingredient quantities, and each recipe can contribute to several categories.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If you’ll be at the World Conferences on Research Integrity, consider joining our pres, “Friendly Ghosts?”. We’ll discuss authorship dilemmas when contributors decline. Tuesday, 11.15am, Stream G. Me, Jennifer Wright, and Michael Vincent #WCRI2026 #researchintegrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

A picture of a friendly ghost. It's blushing and cute. A person's legs are sticking out the bottom of a big sheet. Text reads: "Friendly Ghosts? Ethical dilemmas when research contributors decline authorship. WCRI, Tuesday, 10:30 - 12:00, Stream G (Seymour).

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you know anything about chess, this poster on Etsy is as funny as those fraudulent rat balls. www.etsy.com/au/listing/4... #chess #researchintegrity via u/MinuteRegular716

A mockup of an infographic poster that's supposed to show statistics and strategies in relation to chess openings. On close inspection, it's obviously AI nonsense. Squares are wrongly labelled. Arrows point in meaningless directions, and run contrary to how pieces actually move.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I feel like I'm noticing way more Moderator comments on @pubpeer.com . Am I tripping? I don't have an opinion about it yet, but I'm interested by it. Here's an example of a recent Moderator comment that appears in the middle of an author's comment, providing fact-checking. #researchintegrity

Screenshot from pubpeer. Comment written in bold and brackets reads: "Moderator: are you serious, Joshua A. Beckman? Do you realise that everybody in the world can read this and understand that you are capable of denying that there are exactly 12 blue and 11 red points visible in Fig. 3A. I counted them, too. Also, there is no reason in the world not to share the list of your 28 points."

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Apparently I do unboxing videos now. (Forgive me.) We received the 1st prototype of our card game about research supervision. There will be a printable version as part of our new online course, Supervising Postgraduate Researchers. www.trickygoose.training/supervising #academicsky #researchintegrity

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Responsible-Research-Assessment-Jeopardy cracks me up. We are losing, but possibly laughing the most. #AIMOS2025

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Some folks confuse these things —who think the 'water movement' must be flawed, since bottled water is expensive, and contaminated water is poisonous. Clean water and #openaccess both cost $. We don't really need corporations selling packaged products, but communities funding reservoirs and taps.

On the left is a glass of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access.’ In the middle is a plastic bottle of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access, but stupidly costly.’ On the right is a plastic bottle full of putrid water labelled ‘Predatory open access.’

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My daughter made this clay model, and stuck it on my webcam. So, if we’re chatting, know that I’m also speaking with a jaunty goose.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Going through old books to clear shelf space, and donate. Look what I found! Precious four-leaf clovers. And one fiver! The pages of a Bob Dylan lyrics book are a good place to be pressed, I think. I was given this book for my 18th birthday. Perhaps I can keep it.

Seven pressed four-leaf clovers lie on a tissue, which rests on the pages of a Bob Dylan Lyrics coffee-table book. The songs on this page are "Long-Distance Operator" and "This Wheel's on Fire".

One pressed five-leaf clover rests on a Bob Dylan Lyrics coffee table book. This page shows the lyrics for "Tombstone Blues".

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Fabrication of scientific images is easy and common. If you’re in doubt, go to PubPeer, search “duplication”, & consider the number of dodgy figures discovered in the past hours and days. Can't ignore the problem! Need to discuss it in the open, and better education. #researchintegrity #academicsky

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

New idea for a card game: “Tortured Academia”. It's based, of course, on the comic tragedy of tortured phrases in publishing ethics. You have to guess the proper academic term based on the absurd description. Fuller explanation on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-h... #researchintegrity

Mockup image of the draft game. Examples include: DNA’s dramatic monologue (Genetics), Being sadness theory (Philosophy), Fancy lie for meaning (Literature), Quantum feline box of uncertainty (Physics), Pyramid of priorities (Psychology), Animal-to-human oopsie (Health, Epidemiology).

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I made an icon on the Noun Project about six years ago.This is my running total profit. Killing it!

“Great job! Your icons earned you a total of $3.02.”

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Image detection tools are wild. Consider this PubPeer comment by @sholtodavid.bsky.social : pubpeer.com/publications... However long I looked, I couldn't see the match. But I put them in AfterEffects, messed with their rotation and proportions, and voilà! Would you see it by eye? #researchintegrity

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ok fine, I will send three more emails, but only if I can have a beer at my desk, and only if it is thereafter the weekend.

Image generated with MidJourney using prompt: "detailed oil painting, in the style of a Rembrandt self portrait, of a man holding a pint of beer at his desk."

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Eek. Hard one for me. I see some weird things in these three spots.

Scientific image containing 12 panels. Three sets of markup (highlighter pen) show potential duplications.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When you buy second-hand Lego, and your kids complain they can’t find pieces in the giant bin bag, and it’s Sunday morning and the mania strikes.

A table cloth covered in LEGO, ordered in a rough array, sorted by colour.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Dr Lippman, I do not know you, but this is such an excellent first sentence. I'm convinced we would get along. "The Office of Research Integrity is hardly renowned for its sense of humor." #researchintegrity

Screenshot of the first section of Alexandra Lippman's paper, "Humor, Hoaxes, and Software in the Search for Academic Misconduct." The first sentence is highlighted, "The Office of Research Integrity is hardly renowned for its sense of humor."

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Respectfully, whatever you got for Christmas, it isn’t as good as my pickled cabbage.

A jar of spiced pickled cabbage by ACIDE.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Friendly request to people at #AIMOS2024, since many of you work on paper mills: Pls tell me how I could make this even better. If there were a page 2, what do you think it should say? PDF and video available under Creative Commons licence here: www.trickygoose.training/downloads

Infographic discussion primer about paper mills. It explains, for example, that paper mills are a toxic business model that preys upon the perverse incentive structures of academia. A diagram of a conveyor belt explains how shoddy papers are produced, and then sold to authors, using AI, and by manipulating editors and publication processes.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's #PublicationIntegrityWeek and today's topic is #plagiarism. A useful bit of history is that 13thC Persian literary scientist, Shams-e-Qays had a strikingly modern account of different forms of plagiarism and their relative severity. See Ramin Sadeghi (pictured segment): doi.org/10.1177/1747...

A screenshot of Sadeghi's paper, which reads:
"He categorized plagiarism into four types: Intihal, Salkh, Elmam, and Naql:
1. Intihal (verbatim copy): Shams-e-Qays mentioned that this “means ascribing
the exact words of someone to self. This is verbatim copy of the words
without change (or very small change).”
2. Salkh: Salkh means flaying and, as Shams-e-Qays mentioned, this “ means
using words from another scholar and changing the order of them and using
them again.”
3. Elmam: Elmam means approaching, which “means using a concept from
another scholar and using them as own with different words.”
4. Naql: Naql means transferring: “This means that a scholar takes a concept
from another one and transferring its context.”
He gives an example of
transferring a concept from a complaint to a eulogy context."

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Totally! Very important, and our research integrity course talks quite a lot about it. Here's just a small section.

Part of an infographic discussion primer. "How do we determine the order of authors?" Two researchers sit either side of a see saw. One contributed software development, critical review, and conceptualization. The other contributed data collection, analysis, and first draft.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Been considering authorship practices in academia, and I think "Guest, Gift and Ghost authorship" no longer describes the full range of unethical issues that we see. Here's a draft longer list. Would love opinions. static1.squarespace.com/static/64914... #researchintegrity #academicsky

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Crabs! One of the cards from our game, "Tricky Questions: Image Duplication Edition", designed to help people identify faulty science. How many duplicated panels can you spot? [Hint: They might be flipped and/or recoloured!] #academicsky #researchintegrity

Fifteen panels show photographs of crabs. Some of them are actually the very same photo except recoloured, zoomed, or flipped. It's not too obvious unless you look closely.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

We added more things. You're going to need to blame my wife for the Pinocchio funnel.

A picture of a website gift guide and in particular one picture of a water funnel painted to look like Pinocchio.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

How should we assess researchers? It matters – for our culture, for equity, and because the existing incentive structures of academia fuel shoddy scholarship and fraud. This 1-page A3 discussion primer is free to use under a CC BY NC licence 👉https://www.trickygoose.training/downloads #academicsky

Infographic discussion primer about researcher assessment by Tricky Goose Training.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Quick mockup of an idea for a card game: "University Hiring Committee". I don't yet know the rules. Maybe you make a team and it has to win funding and please the students, but if it's toxic, things go bad. Your ideas very welcome. #academicsky

Mockup of four playing cards. Each shows an imaginary researcher and certain information about them - e.g. their impact on policy, their h-index, and a sample quote.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Research integrity — how it's taught, and what it really is. #academicsky #researchintegrity

A cross section of the ocean. On the surface are some boats, labelled "Compliance", "rules" and "policies". Underneath the ocean is a complex ecosystem of creatures, treasures and wrecks labelled after complex issues in research integrity such as "researcher assessment", "paper mills", "detection tools", and many others.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Updated our discussion primer about paper mills to reference this recent piece about bribery: www.science.org/content/arti... You can download and use our primer here: 👉https://trickygoose.training/downloads #researchintegrity #academicsky

An infographic discussion primer about paper mills on one A3 page. For example, the business models of paper mills is represented as a conveyor belt with numerous stages. Challenging questions and links to literature are provided for discussion.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I've had lots of interesting discussions lately about paper mills. Possibly the biggest current threat to trust in research? If you'd like to use our new resource to promote discussion, it's available under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC licence. trickygoose.training/downloads #academicsky

Infographic A3 discussion primer for researchers about paper mills.

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Looking through my folder of abandoned training ideas. I'm sad this one isn't viable — a course for research supervisors, based on a menu full of extremely bad puns. "Regular ketchup" "Reliable sauces" "Confits of interest" #Academicsky

A picture of a menu titled "Degustation" which is really the agenda for a course about research supervision.

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