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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"Chasing squiggles" was a talk given at Harvard today. 😊🤙

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Wiley: "After a detailed analysis of the concerns for each remaining article, we did not find anything to require further action on these articles. ......As such, we are now closing our investigation." Me: yeah but what about the O peaks at 8.5 KeV ....😅 pubpeer.com/publications...

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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Read how @jsmoliga.bsky.social and @mumumouse2.bsky.social made a woodpecker disappear!

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This study on effects of probiotics in Parkinson's clinical trial has been retracted. pubpeer.com/publications.... This yogurt stuff confuses me: Could impair sociability pubpeer.com/publications... but help with Parkinson's?? I guess both studies are goofy. I love yogurt.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Had a lot of fun giving a talk at the @hope.net conference today. Being considered cool by hackers is the coolest thing ever 😎.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A sleuth's birthday be like : 1) sleuthing allllllll day 2) NOOOOOO interactions with humans 3) mouse (temporary) tattoo 4) naps 🎂☺️🐭❤️🍦🍺🍷

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 27/07/2025

Ayman Atta (KSU, EPRI) has earned 5 more #SciRetraction, all from ‪ACS Omega! 👍Kudos to @acs.org @pubs.acs.org 🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️ #ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Tale of two retractions. www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I work out and stuff. On a mini vacation.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It's a triplets! pubpeer.com/publications... pubpeer.com/publications... pubpeer.com/publications...

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Another @plosone.org retraction of an Eliezer Masliah paper. Findings by @mumumouse2.bsky.social and me. "Regarding the similarities within the western blot panels in Fig 2A, the corresponding author stated that this figure was included for illustration purposes only." pubpeer.com/publications...

Figure 2A from the retracted paper, showing four Western blots with 12 lanes each. Using boxes of the same color (in blue, pink, green, orange, and purple) I have marked lanes or parts of lanes that look repetitive, suggesting the photo has been digitally altered.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Just upgraded to an actually scary sleuth. ｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Giving a talk on image manipulation today at the IEEE Panel of Editors meeting in Montreal.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

These two XRD only differ in places of two peaks. The weird part is that they indicate the same stuff, but one with two extra peaks. The peak at 7.5 KeV doesn't help.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to this panel discussion!

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Not the first time someone deleted their Google scholar as Dysdera arabisenen binge-flagging their papers on Pubpeer. ╮⁠(⁠╯⁠_⁠╰⁠)⁠╭

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I posted several papers that I flagged by a certain author on LinkedIn --- I flagged 11 in 23 hours. I got a DM telling me to take my posts down. Nope! pubpeer.com/search?q=Muh...

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Charles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Findings of apparent image doctoring were within a 132-paper dossier compiled primarily by @mumumouse2.bsky.social with big contributions by Matthew Schrag @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social Story www.science.org/content/arti... Book 2/2 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Doctor...

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Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s studies for decades?

Agency announces research misconduct finding for neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah as scores of his papers fall under suspicion

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Retracted by Optical Materials. Reported last fall. doi.org/10.1016/j.op...

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

As a chemistry/physics noob, even I can tell that C and N are not supposed to be jumping around that far along the energy spectrum. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

RETRACTED. With a great amount of help from @arbitraryeffect.bsky.social. Reported last June www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 18/02/2025

Don’t draw your data – sleuth’s stories in uncovering suspicious data in preclinical Alzheimer’s research papers by Dr. Mu Yang @mumumouse2.bsky.social 📽️ Recording: www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/v... 📊 Presentation: osf.io/xhr2f The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniHelsinki.

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ReproducibiliTea_UniHelsinki webinar: Don't Draw Your Data | Helsingin yliopisto

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

RETRACTED. Teamwork with @tkes.bsky.social ! pubpeer.com/publications...

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

An analysis of Ramsden et al., 2005 from the Karen Ashe lab. www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-d...

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Same trace was used in two papers to indicate different materials. No AI tool was used in this detection.

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Earth is mostly water Science is mostly negative data Both are life Peace out🐭

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This puzzle was a lot of fun! In RSC Advances. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct made a conclusion. Google translate "In summary, the committee finds that Preeti Menon, Adriana Miclescu, Fred Nyberg, Aruna Sharma, Hari Sharma and Lars Wiklund committed misconduct in research."

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Challenge: write the most dry and polite comment on this for a pubpeer post. Rules: Can't use fake, fraud, hand-drawn, toddler etc. 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.10.055