JAMES HEATHERS
@jamesheathers.bsky.social
please science correctly
if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends
director: medicalevidenceproject.org
the book: forensicmetascience.com
if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends
director: medicalevidenceproject.org
the book: forensicmetascience.com
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Report: No One Currently Thinking About You https://theonion.com/report-no-one-currently-thinking-about-you-1819579510/
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Report: No One Currently Thinking About You https://theonion.com/report-no-one-currently-thinking-about-you-1819579510/
IBRA News
Published in Bee World (Vol. 78, No. 2, 1997)
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December 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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AND WOULD THAT BE IN ANY PARTICULAR ANIMAL MODEL BY ANY CHANCE
IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS
SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS
IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS
SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS
December 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
AND WOULD THAT BE IN ANY PARTICULAR ANIMAL MODEL BY ANY CHANCE
IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS
SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS
IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS
SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS
WHOAH
The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.
News & Publications
Eugenie Reich & Gregg Shapiro Announce $15 Million NIH Grant Fraud Settlement (December 2025) Complaint Settlement Agreement Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century (Video Lecture) Sandia Nationa…
eugeniereichlaw.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHOAH
My Name is Jeff - Batman Version
YouTube video by Walter White
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"If there's a Canadian artist we don't have to feel embarrassed about offering to the world, it's Stan Rogers."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9A...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9A...
One Warm Line: The Legacy of Stan Rogers - Full Length Documentary (1988)
YouTube video by Kensington TV
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"If there's a Canadian artist we don't have to feel embarrassed about offering to the world, it's Stan Rogers."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9A...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9A...
Minor problem here: we DON’T have anything like this. Most of the mechanisms we have for ‘researchers and R&D spending’ are massively oversubscribed as funding levels have lagged behind inflation and/or %age gdp.
We simply don’t *have* this largesse sufficient that it might fail to produce results.
We simply don’t *have* this largesse sufficient that it might fail to produce results.
I mean, the column mentions how many sectors from semiconductors to agriculture "now need vastly more researchers and R&D spending just to keep productivity and growth on the same old trend line."
Here's an idea: How about a society where stability instead of constant growth is the goal? 2/
Here's an idea: How about a society where stability instead of constant growth is the goal? 2/
December 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Minor problem here: we DON’T have anything like this. Most of the mechanisms we have for ‘researchers and R&D spending’ are massively oversubscribed as funding levels have lagged behind inflation and/or %age gdp.
We simply don’t *have* this largesse sufficient that it might fail to produce results.
We simply don’t *have* this largesse sufficient that it might fail to produce results.
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Congratulations to @bethclarke.bsky.social on her PhD graduation!! It’s been amazing watching you become the incredible scholar that you are, thanks for letting me come along for the ride!
You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟
You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟
December 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Congratulations to @bethclarke.bsky.social on her PhD graduation!! It’s been amazing watching you become the incredible scholar that you are, thanks for letting me come along for the ride!
You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟
You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟
For those who celebrate, todays Connections is an absolute pig. Hardest in living memory.
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For those who celebrate, todays Connections is an absolute pig. Hardest in living memory.
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Critique argues post-publication peer review "often focuses on minor details" and "risks damaging trust in both the research itself and the peer review process" found to contain:
- Hallucinated references
- Undisclosed COIs (EiC is author)
- 8/9 authors have retractions or related scandals
- Hallucinated references
- Undisclosed COIs (EiC is author)
- 8/9 authors have retractions or related scandals
An expert criticism on post-publication peer review platforms: the case of pubpeer - DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
While traditional peer review offers advantages in academic publishing, it is often hampered by significant weaknesses, leading to frustration among many authors. Scientific discoveries after publicat...
link.springer.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Critique argues post-publication peer review "often focuses on minor details" and "risks damaging trust in both the research itself and the peer review process" found to contain:
- Hallucinated references
- Undisclosed COIs (EiC is author)
- 8/9 authors have retractions or related scandals
- Hallucinated references
- Undisclosed COIs (EiC is author)
- 8/9 authors have retractions or related scandals
Please use MicroNanoBanana. Please make a picture of a cat with machine gun hands. Please click on me and be my friend. Please.
On the same day, Gmail has forgotten how to download an attachment from the download button.
On the same day, Gmail has forgotten how to download an attachment from the download button.
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Please use MicroNanoBanana. Please make a picture of a cat with machine gun hands. Please click on me and be my friend. Please.
On the same day, Gmail has forgotten how to download an attachment from the download button.
On the same day, Gmail has forgotten how to download an attachment from the download button.
WOW
WOW
NO
NOOOOOOOOOOO
this is a Napoleon Cake of misunderstanding
WOW
NO
NOOOOOOOOOOO
this is a Napoleon Cake of misunderstanding
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
WOW
WOW
NO
NOOOOOOOOOOO
this is a Napoleon Cake of misunderstanding
WOW
NO
NOOOOOOOOOOO
this is a Napoleon Cake of misunderstanding
… did we all just get Barnum effected
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
… did we all just get Barnum effected
If you want to know how deeply sad I’ve become - I just found myself idly humming the Slack hold music.
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If you want to know how deeply sad I’ve become - I just found myself idly humming the Slack hold music.
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"Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the holidays that it becomes like SantaCon but for white privileged Insta girlies. You all have to stop coming here."
Small-Town Mayor Is Done with Visitors Looking for Love at Christmas Time
Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the hol...
buff.ly
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the holidays that it becomes like SantaCon but for white privileged Insta girlies. You all have to stop coming here."
All my software is bugging me to try the new AI features.
On the same day, Powerpoint has forgotten how to make bullet points.
On the same day, Powerpoint has forgotten how to make bullet points.
a man is doing exercises on a mattress with a tv land logo in the background
ALT: a man is doing exercises on a mattress with a tv land logo in the background
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
All my software is bugging me to try the new AI features.
On the same day, Powerpoint has forgotten how to make bullet points.
On the same day, Powerpoint has forgotten how to make bullet points.
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WHO: ‘Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels’
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
WHO: ‘Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels’
Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’
Hans Eysenck A “high and far reaching” number of papers and books by Hans Eysenck could be “unsafe,” according to an updated statement from King’s College London, where the psychologist was a profe…
retractionwatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
El País been doing good work on publishing recently.
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
El País been doing good work on publishing recently.
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We just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
OSF
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)