Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 15hIt was a busy day at the retraction factory. 061
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 15hHaven't seen this before. Lazy papermillers assembling the paid-for citation-spam part of their manuscript, & copy-pasting into the text their instructions to the LLM. Instructions to recycle the citation-spam wording from the previous manuscript on the assembly-line. pubpeer.com/publications... 162
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexPeer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you like the slop, please consider buying me a coffee! I am also active on PubPeer as Dendrographa conformis pubpeer.com/search?q=den... buymeacoffee.com/michal.wojcik 👮 (busted) 👮buymeacoffee.comMichal Wojcik is Anti-Slop Academic SleuthingI like DOIs that resolve properly and images that are not too sloppy. Passionate about metadata, sleuthing, and research integrity. 012
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Give him a straw and he can snort one, though. 150
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026@peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social Maybe *you* can remember, so far back in the mists of time before last Tuesday 110
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026i thought I recognised that name. One of the network of Frye associates on J Personalised Medicine. pubpeer.com/publications... 😕pubpeer.comPubPeer - Age-Related Changes in Epilepsy Characteristics and Response...There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Age-Related Changes in Epilepsy Characteristics and Response to Antiepileptic Treatment in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2023) 062
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Our toys are out of the cot; Let's blame someone else for flinging them! 000
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 13/08/2026There's trouble at t'papermill! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 5166
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I am not a Healthcare Professional but I am reading the retraction notices at Biomed Research International and THE MAN CAN'T STOP ME 190
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Researchers must take the lead on how to deploy AI tools, ..." My lead is DON'T. Is this really so feckin hard? 030
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 08/08/2026@cosig.net Are there COSIG guidelines for advising authors who fall victim to corrupt, coercive reviewers? pubpeer.com/publications... 040
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Today in Mass Depublication Events: "International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Did Sage know what a dogs-breakfast the journal is, when they acquired it from IOS? OK, the entire Fluffy Reasoning field is a dogs-breakfast... 052
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@author-for-sale.bsky.social "We paid the 'publishing facilitation agency' for this dude's paper to go into the journal, but we never asked to be added as co-authors!" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 072
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Gundry! I did not realise that the grifter was still around. eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2017/09/mais...eusa-riddled.blogspot.comMais où est <i>Le Journal des Neiges d'Antan</i>?Dr Elisabeth Bik (whom God preserve) encountered the International Society of Microbiota , one spigot of the Edeas / Takayama Congress Fac... 051
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Now that our daughter is 31, in accordance with family traditions I explained to her about the monstrous transformations - mental as well as physical - that afflict our people as we approach the end of our first century of life. She has met her Uncle Trevor so none of this came as a great surprise. 071
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexMatt Williams @matthewmatix.bsky.social · 30/07/2026www.aimos2026.org AIMOS 2026 will be in Wellington this year on 30 Nov to 2 Dec. Abstracts due 15 Aug. This is a very fun and very interactive metascience conference. Come along and hang out!aimos2026.orgAIMOS_2026 | Metascience Conference – Register TodayJoin the AIMOS 2026 Conference n Wellington, New Zealand, for three days of interdisciplinary meta-research, keynote speakers, workshops, and networking to improve research practices. 0108
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Whenever someone writes "they can't hybridise", Nature says "Hold my beer". 200
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"The rest of the long first paragraph lists all the qualities Catherine Morland does not possess: she is declared to be not an orphan, not poor, not mistreated, not beleaguered by ill-health, not beautiful, not feminine (i.e., not physically weak), not sensitive, not exceptionally gifted,..." 110
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"The depths of scientific stupidity are always expanding…" Deep is the well of stupidity. Should we not call it bottomless? 031
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"It's my thing!" I say, to explain the almost inchoate black entity from some other plane of existence that always accompanies me, always behind and on the left, somehow protectively yet slightly closer every day 020
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My use of a pseudonym when sciencing is inviting lots of research questions already answered by my use of a pseudonym. journals.openedition.org/regardssocio... 191
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 17/07/2026They call it 'addictive manufacturing' but I CAN STOP ANY TIME. 141
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A single upvote is not enough for this. 020
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026TIL that drinking pearls has many health benefits. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha... I grieve to report that the authors of this TCM fiddlefaddle failed to cite the Cleopatra case-study. penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/jou...) 031
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexNinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We owe it to Sam to continue to fight for the protection of Central Otago from the mining vultures that NZ First starring Shame Jones is desperate to hand over to. Let’s make that a thing in the name of our own #SamNeill ✊ 325166
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Academic publishing Gen-AI slop of the day (courtesy of a colleague who finds them with Image Search. Hungry now. 1174
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Why are so many butterflies named after stock characters from Edwardian detective novels? 130
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"What should we call our ML architecture based on the Transformer model?" "I have an idea..." 192
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Wiley join other publishers by enshittifying their previously-functioning website. 3151
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"Solar mobileular". pubpeer.com/publications... 020
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Pro-tip: edit out your prompts from the dialog with the LLM before copy-pasting it into the text. 1559
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexsCiEnCe GuArDiAnS @scienceguardians.bsky.social · 15/05/2026🚨MAJOR EXPOSÉ: We reveal the bizarre sexual preferences of the Science Guardians™, as shown in their disturbing comments on PornHub. (This is definitely the people behind the Science Guardians™ Twitter/X account. No way could someone just create an account with their name to defame them!) 112
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If you notice a problem in a paper in the @rsc.org journal Applied Interfaces, don't bother pointing it out to the Editor-in-Chief; he'll just call you a snitch. A paragon of research ethics. 0103
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexOca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 05/07/2026#psychiatry “Some of those terms were very easily misunderstood and so I do regret that,” he said - i.e. colleagues who questioned his publications were stupid... Also: why does an academic with so many controversial & "unhelpful" ideas still lead Cambridge's Autism Research Centre?giancarlocristea.comSimon Baron-Cohen and Autism: A Toxic LegacyWhy Simon Baron-Cohen's empathy and 'extreme male brain' theories harmed autistic people — and what 40 years of this science got wrong. 163
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The hounds should never have been in custody. They were framed. The charges were fabricated and all the evidence was planted. 020
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Today in Serious Scientific Publishing. 4183
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 02/07/2026You know that you are not living life to the fullest when it dawns on you that you have no adventures in London, with little money and no luggage except an owl in a basket, to tell to a Radnorshire clergyman. 2322
Reposted by Smut Clyde, X-Ray HaruspexBaxtermack🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In memory of Michael Garbarino (Big Bad Bald Bastard), 4 years gone. Always missed youtu.be/on6DxBgfsDY?...youtu.beSuspect DeviceYouTube video by Stiff Little Fingers - Topic 041
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 27/06/2026If I had a pale horse, I would get a dog and call it "Hell", so people could say "And Hell followed with him". 130
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Tag yourself! I'm mesocortical motniation. 131
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I pledge that when I am World Crazy Emperor, and my reflecting pool turns green, I will just issue a proclamation that "By the powers invested in me as World Crazy Emperor, it is St Patrick's Day whenever I say it is." 191
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Luxon "constantly underwhelmed" by low purchases of tulips among NZ investors. 050
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 25/06/2026With a cameo appearance from Chadwick Prodromos. forbetterscience.com/2021/10/18/i...forbetterscience.comIvermectin now against COVID-19, becauseDr Peter McCullough, Dr Sabine Hazan, and other ivermectin quacks. Follow Smut Clyde’s descent to the antivaxxer hell. 021
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Wäre es da Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung Löste das Volk auf und Wählte ein anderes? 110
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Farooq Sher signed his name to this rapturous rhapsody of LLM rodomontade: pubpeer.com/publications... H/t Derek Lowe. www.science.org/content/blog... 360
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 22/06/2026TIL that the spore-spreading spike of a horsetail plant is a 'strobilus'. This is why no-one wants to play me at Scrabble. Don't start me on 'galbulus'. Here are some strobili from the Fisherman's Trail in Lower Seymour. 030
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"The Jews are Poisoning the Water Supplies Again" was not in my 2026 Bingo card, but in retrospect it should have been. 010
