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Reese Richardson

@reeserichardson.bsky.social
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I am a recent PhD studying metascience and computational biology. My blog: reeserichardson.blog

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 12h
As scientists we don’t often consider or lean on how our humanity gives us skin in the game, and what value that provides to the public. We can face professional consequences for cheating or getting it wrong; it’s that skin in the game that breeds trust. LLM Prof Theseus doesn’t have that.
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just attended a lecture by Simon Metcalf, formerly the King’s Armourer at the Royal Collection, about conservation of historical arms. One problem I did not anticipate would frustrate conservation: dust! Dust carries organic pollutants and traps moisture close to surfaces, which can cause corrosion.
Simon Metcalf lectures from behind a podium at the Art Institute of Chicago. On the slide are displayed various swords, firearms and armor ornaments.A slide from Metcalf's talk. The top left features the musket ball that killed admiral lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, inset in a gold locket. The middle features Napoleon's burnous cloak captured by the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
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JLP @jlp.systems · 24/09/2026
I had to make this a jingle
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My favorite fake scientific society is AAAS--not @aaas.org, but the African Academy of Advanced Studies, from which you can receive awards like the AAAS International Outstanding Scientist Award and AAAS International Young Researcher Award (for a fee, of course).
A screenshot of a website with a logo depicting a network over the African continent. The site reads: about aaas

African Academy of Advanced Studies (AAAS) is a registered non-profit organization that was created to recognize abilities and acknowledge achievements of all, ranging from academic research and professional communities to industry professionals in a wide range of topics in advanced multidisciplinary studies.

AAAS brings together researchers, students and academicians from all over the world who works professionally to lift the status high by their ideas and research. The African Academy of Advanced Studies (AAAS) is a registered organization for the professionals in the field of multidisciplinary studies. AAAS organizes conferences, workshops, Webinars, technical support to conferences and workshops and it publishes high quality academic international journals in advanced multidisciplinary studies.

We welcome Scientists, Professors, Researchers, Academicians, Engineers and Students from all over the world who want to join us.

Dr. Abdussalam Ali Ahmed
President of African Academy of Advanced Studies (AAAS)Membership fee table from the AAAS, starting from 50 USD for one year as an associate member.Award fees for AAAS awards. The page states "If your profile/ nomination has won the title of the African Academy of Advanced Studies (AAAS) award, a compulsory standard delegate fee is applied. (Fee is charged for the services & benefits covered in it)." International Delegate starts at 100 USD.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Make no mistake: *everything* is for sale! Great investigation by @maxkozlov.bsky.social
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
strongly considering programming a keyboard shortcut to paste a correctly-spelled "unnecessary"
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/09/2026
Thinking back to the good old days when publishing a paper every three days required some human to be insecure enough to write up two ideas that didn't deserve to see the light of day every single week.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Weird AI-generated figure case encountered recently. The images have garbled text in the metadata banner and one nanoparticle jumping out of the image at the viewer. Published July 2026 in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, published by Springer Nature. PubPeer link below.
Two images of nanoparticles distributed over a material's surface from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-026-17916-3I have concerns that the SEM images in Figure 4 were at least partially AI-generated.

First, the images feature garbled text in the metadata banner:

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Second, in panel b, one of the features appears to be in front of the metadata banner:

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Third, the second panel appears to be a zoom-in of the first (as the scale bars on the metadata banner suggest) and the features of the two images are very similar to that effect, but not quite the same. Here is a gif alternating between panel b and the corresponding region in panel a.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/9733CF6B0104589CDEA83F2C0A1B28
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Inbox: HHS issues a request for information on health risks of EMFs and wireless radiation. This is non-ionizing radiation, which is well-studied and known to not be dangerous because (as the name implies) it lacks the energy to strip electrons from atoms to create ions.
HHS Seeks Public Input on Electromagnetic Fields and Wireless Radiation

 

WASHINGTON—September 17, 2026—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a Request for Information (RFI) calling on Americans, scientists, physicians, industry, and public health experts to submit evidence and information on the potential health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), radiofrequency (RF) radiation, and wireless radiation exposure.

 

The RFI will help HHS evaluate the state of the science, compare U.S. and international safety standards and regulatory approaches, identify critical research gaps, and develop practical, evidence-based recommendations for policymakers, families, schools, communities, and public health professionals.

 

“Wireless technologies are part of daily life, and our science must keep pace,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “The MAHA Strategy directed HHS to examine electromagnetic radiation and health research, and we are acting on that directive. I encourage scientists, physicians, industry, public health experts, workers, parents, and citizens to bring us the best available evidence so we can identify the gaps and focus federal research where it is needed most.”

 

HHS is seeking information on RF/EMF exposures associated with mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, wireless infrastructure, wearable technologies, wireless medical devices, 5G, 6G, satellite communications, Internet of Things devices, smart homes, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and other emerging technologies.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
lmaooooooooo
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 17/09/2026
Union members at @thelancet.com and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsevier fell apart. It's the first strike in the journal's 200-year history.
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Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
Union members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsev…
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"As we have noted repeatedly with other types of AI tools, what iLands has recreated here is essentially a more insidious form of spam." "iLands emails now do offer an unsubscribe link that allows people to unsubscribe from an individual email or all iLands emails." www.404media.co/ai-agent-pla...
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AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Survey participants are often promised anonymity, but researchers studying crime posted a public data set that identified people who confessed to crimes. Without more care, #openscience can conflict with privacy #researchintegrity #academicpublishing @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Social science studies may promise anonymity, but participant identities often lurk in public data
One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ugh. Neither is further institutionalization what metascience needs as a field nor is a centralized metascience that issues science-wide mandates what sciences need. This kind of thing is something I've been strongly against even without an office of metascience at NSF. But I could see it coming.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For the last couple of weeks now I have been receiving, with increasing frequency, solicitations from AI agents, all on iLands. I have never responded to one but they keep coming.
A screenshot of emails
 All are from AI agents associated with the iLands platform.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 07/09/2026
Researchers investigating the antibody data traced some suspected image manipulation back over a decade ago, using metadata to track how images have been created with the exact same background patterns. @reeserichardson.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/antibod...
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Antibody data manipulation extends to thousands of images across 15 suppliers
Sleuths discover widespread, systematic alteration of Western blots and other antibody data
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the National Museum of Scotland has Dolly the Sheep spinning in place in a perpetual sort of lamb kebab
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"'Caveat Blottor' does not seem like such a great way to run a business, but that seems to be the norm." @dereklowe.bsky.social weighs in on the antibody validation data scandal: www.science.org/content/blog...
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Crappy Antibodies, Made Superficially More Appealing
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Update: Origene says it has examined four of the flagged images and found alterations that were "cosmetic and did not alter the scientific interpretation of the experiments." It says it will examine the other ~2200 and prohibit "cosmetic removal of background artifacts."
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Press Releases - Latest News about OriGene Technologies | OriGene Technologies Inc.
Find the latest press releases from OriGene. See what OriGene is doing to contribute to the scientific community.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
First new entry to the wall of shame is Boster Biological Technology. In a statement to @huanjia.bsky.social for @genomeweb.bsky.social (link below), they state that some of the antibodies they sell are produced by third parties and that these "tend to be of lesser quality".
In an email, a spokesperson for Pleasanton, California-based Boster Bio said the company does use original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for some of its antibodies, which "tend to be of lesser quality" than those produced in-house. The spokesperson said the company tests its self-produced antibodes with tissues and cell lines and does not manipulate internal validation data before posting on the website.

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https://www.genomeweb.com/business-news/new-report-details-widespread-antibody-validation-image-manipulation-across-industry
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've updated the original blog post to detail the response thus far from each company: reeserichardson.blog/2026/08/25/a... Sourced largely from coverage detailed in the thread below!
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At least 15 companies are selling antibodies using faked validation data
Popular vendors’ catalogs feature more than 18,000 manipulated images
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The full story is worth a read. Here's another way they documented howThermo-Fisher was lying to customers: fabricated endoresments!
"An aside about Thermo Fishers "quotations"Example of a fabricated endorsement provided by the scientist "quoted"
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Sleuth identifies dozens of studies that used the wrong antibody
The case is the latest example of a scientific workhorse being misused in experiments.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
GOOD RIDDANCE #AntiImmersiveExperienceAktion wgntv-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/wgntv.co...
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WNDR Museum closing in Chicago after 8 years
A downtown Chicago museum announced this week that it will close for good in early September after eight years. The WNDR Museum, known for its unique interactive installations, says it will shutter…
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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/08/2026
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale. scim.ag/4gt0Hzh
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two stories about our learnings from paper mill advertisements! First, @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social covers work @abalkina.bsky.social @solalpirelli.bsky.social @yaamurozturk.bsky.social and Marie Kunesova for @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti...
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/08/2026
I’ve been told for years that it’s legally and ethically impossible to share medical RCT data. In 2024, the BMJ made sharing anonymised data mandatory, and now lots* of folk do it. Interesting how the barriers evaporated like that, isn’t it? *not everyone, compliance problems exist.
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Availability of clinical trial individual patient data in the BMJ before and after adoption of a stringent data-sharing policy, compared with recent rates at other major medical journals
Background In 2024, the BMJ updated its data-sharing policy for clinical trials, requiring open deposit of deidentified individual participant data (IPD) before publication. We considered whether data...
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Very very upset at the University of Cambridge higher ups. I don’t think their remaining in situ given this week - in court and with Arday - is remotely tenable.
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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There's trouble at t'papermill! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Charles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Magic or Realism?” Are recently discovered genetic variants that seem to protect against Alzheimer’s believable? My latest investigation – with @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social – takes a deep dive to answer. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Science investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease
Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question
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Charles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Final word on the collapse of institutional standards in the infamous Didier Raoult case? Great scholarship by @lonnibesancon.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social and colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Follow-up investigation of ethics approvals and regulatory compliance in publications from the IHU-Mi - Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background Following our previous investigation of 456 articles published by the IHU-Méditerranée Infection (IHU-Mi) institute in Marseille, France, subsequent editorial actions, institutional reviews...
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a psychic medium is conducting a seance at a table with a small group of people. With his head lowered, the medium says, “we will now attempt to contact the spirit realm.” Panel 2: a wraith-like ghost is sitting on the toilet in a well-lit bathroom, idly scrolling on its phone. The phone is ringing. Panel 3: displayed on the phone screen is an incoming call 
 from “Creepy Psychic Guy”, whose default contact photo is one of those fuckin bitmoji emoji faces - i can’t stand those things. Anyway the ghost declines the call.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
they should let you pace at the movies
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
AI jay bhattacharya cardboard standee is a level of cursed object not seen since the hope diamond
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 07/08/2026
🧪 A problem that seemed to have disappeared is still haunting new scientific papers. ...and why don't publishers just tell us the results of investigations into the weird stuff they let slip into the literature? nobreakthroughs.com/more-fishin/
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More Fishin'
A minor update on Latin fishies infiltrating the scientific literature.
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Dead Neanderthals @deadneanderthals.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We published a new paper in the #CanadianJournalOfCardiology doi.org/10.1016/j.cj... We show that 57 of 201 included articles (28.4%) contain image-related or data-related issues. All these papers investigated microvascular injury after acute myocardial infarction in mouse, rat and pig models.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Private individuals using the police to intimidate journalists is nothing new. Surprised that they intend to apologize for it! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Met Police boss admits mistake over Jason Arday plagiarism row
Sir Mark Rowley says his force "dropped the ball" after it investigated a reporter looking into claims about Jason Arday.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Despite the thoroughness of my investigation, THE did not run the story...by this point, Arday’s solicitors had been in touch with THE and it was clear that the story could tie the publication up in months of expensive litigation." www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/i-wa...
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I was reported to police over Arday case. I was just doing my job
My investigation into alleged plagiarism was undertaken seriously – journalistic enquiries should not be a matter for Scotland Yard, writes THE journalist Jack Grove
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A great feature by @katarinazimmer.bsky.social about review mills, how they emerge and the fallout they leave behind. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Garbled text, including misspellings and unreadable glyphs, are a hallmark of AI-generated images.
A sign in German. It reads:

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Auch für externe Gäste!

KEINE FRÜHSTÜCKSBUCHUNG?

KEIN PROBLEM - KOMMEN SIE VORBE

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Drawing of Bart Simpson as an English longbowman with weird crossed eyes beside a map of medieval Europe with caption: “hundred years war 1337-1453, operation speedy resolution.” Bart’s speech bubble says “I was there dude and it sucked”
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