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Haha - honestly I never thought that far ahead. Nothing antagonistic of course, you can politely ask for a lab tour, they might even oblige?! Let me know what happens 🙏

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A couple of people mentioned they might go, but I'm yet to hear from someone who has! Ideal would be photos, even better, a video! Feel free to email me at sholto.david@gmail.com if you get out there 👍

please do - here or in a message is fine 👍

Thanks! Another very good spot. When you see it, it looks comical, but it's hard to spot the first time. I also think his clothes wrinkles and skin wrinkles seem very similar. Perhaps I will make a YouTube video on this one, it's a hot topic.

Great, yes I have done that now, I will post to PubPeer.

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Fabiënne ✍️ @fabienne1972.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A SynthID has been detected in the image. He also has very nice fingernails for a 77 year old man and eyebrow hairs that morph into wrinkles...

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My pleasure 😘

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Thank you! Well that is quite definitive. Case closed 😂

This before/after photo is definitely a problem because the man's beard hairs haven't grown or moved in a month.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is anyone good at these? Is this photo from a recent Frontiers in Medicine case report AI generated/modified? Anything you can point to specifically? (10.3389/fmed.2026.1915046)

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Today I'm posting a video about Neurodigitech LLC which has provided clearly photoshopped neurons to research teams that published these images in Nature, JBC, and more. A year after I uncovered this only one paper has been corrected. It's in Frontiers. youtu.be/4g_1_AWOVpI

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Faked Images of Neurons in Major Journals

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks everyone for helping! I think there's enough here to warrant a transparent analysis from the authors that shows details of exactly what was done. Duplicate value pairs are a good catch and I found a few more.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are these p values reasonable? They seem very small. Quote: "One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple comparison test is presented based on single measurements averaged for each group. P values are indicated." - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not sure, sounds like something from Scientology?

Well I shouldn't hope for too much!

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Right now if you read the correction you would think the authors found it themselves...

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A correction to a 2026 Nature paper. This is PubPeer working quite well (in my view at least). I spotted the error and the authors corrected the paper and replied on PubPeer to update. If I had to complain I would rather the correction referenced the PubPeer comment. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Image Fraud in Nature Neuroscience

A new video on my YouTube Channel - This one is about a 2013 Nature Neuroscience paper with extensive image manipulation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6V...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I expect the (obvious) slop schematic window is closing, these diagrams generally look better now. Fun while it lasted! But I still think there are ways to detect AI generated images.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Retracted today from Scientific Reports following my comments. Graphene oxide against cancer cells. The unlikely collaboration involved authors from Ethiopia, Chile, India, China, and South Korea. Two of the diagrams were easily identifiable as AI slop.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are similar problems for p16-INK4a vs. p16-ARC antibodies as well as mammalian and bacterial beta galactosidase antibodies, I've written about these before: forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m... and forbetterscience.com/2026/07/21/d...

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Mind over Antibody

“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the car…

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today I'm posting a new blog! Nearly two hundred papers have muddled the names for different proteins and recorded using the wrong antibody for a range of experiments. This time it's PERK vs. p-ERK. Including researchers from Harvard, the Mayo Clinic, and more. sholto.substack.com/p/perk-vs-p-...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Well done @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/214... cc @retractionwatch.com

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Always easier to counter something no one said" - Exactly what Emma did in her original thread. None of the newspapers suggested that there was "no evidence".

Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Catching up with MDPI corrections. A published meta-analysis accidentally compared body fat in the probiotic group to weight in the control group. Unsurprisingly comparing two different variables resulted in an obviously wrong forest plot. The authors did correct this after I spotted it.

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OP says "ALL NEWSPAPERS suggested there was NO EVIDENCE"... That's a very different claim to some newspapers questioned the claim. If you don't understand the difference that's a problem.

Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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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. www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

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Sleuth identifies dozens of studies that used the wrong antibody

Nature - The case is the latest example of a scientific workhorse being misused in experiments.

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The be kind mob at it again I see. Yes - I'm pale and skinny 😂 Jason Arday is still a fantasist though.

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Well you could always try to answer the question 😂

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A Times journalist is STILL providing evidence! You're contradicting your own post but you're so muddled in language you can't even see it.

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