Solal Pirelli
@solalpirelli.bsky.social
Automated software verification, scientific integrity, and random rants. Previously: PhD at EPFL.
🇺🇦 Ministry of Ed.: universities shouldn't partner with companies that guarantee paper acceptance and other such dubious things
🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :(
🇺🇦 court: no no that's fair, get lost
Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social
opendatabot.ua/court/133906...
🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :(
🇺🇦 court: no no that's fair, get lost
Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social
opendatabot.ua/court/133906...
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opendatabot.ua
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
🇺🇦 Ministry of Ed.: universities shouldn't partner with companies that guarantee paper acceptance and other such dubious things
🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :(
🇺🇦 court: no no that's fair, get lost
Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social
opendatabot.ua/court/133906...
🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :(
🇺🇦 court: no no that's fair, get lost
Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social
opendatabot.ua/court/133906...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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For your information, this is what one day of the so-called Russian “energy ceasefire” looked like - something foreign media outlets, for some reason, simply call a “ceasefire.”
It is unclear when it began or when it will end.
This is what it was like: 🧵
It is unclear when it began or when it will end.
This is what it was like: 🧵
February 1, 2026 at 9:23 PM
For your information, this is what one day of the so-called Russian “energy ceasefire” looked like - something foreign media outlets, for some reason, simply call a “ceasefire.”
It is unclear when it began or when it will end.
This is what it was like: 🧵
It is unclear when it began or when it will end.
This is what it was like: 🧵
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I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
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Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520...
Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡
Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520...
Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡
Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡
ACM: we need money for our digital library to survive now that we're OA 🥺
ACM when they get money:
ACM when they get money:
beyond words to express how much i hate this... looks like "AI summary" not the author's written abstract is displayed by default for all ACM digital library publications. i, for one, didn't ask for it and hate it to my core
January 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM
ACM: we need money for our digital library to survive now that we're OA 🥺
ACM when they get money:
ACM when they get money:
Today in IEEE nonsense: When you use outdated language and then paraphrase it...
January 24, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Today in IEEE nonsense: When you use outdated language and then paraphrase it...
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88,000 families in Kyiv are without electricity after Russia's attack on the city last night.
About 6,000 residential buildings are without heating (hundreds of thousands of people). It is -8 degrees, and will be up to - 15 in the night.
Russia continues its energy genocide.
About 6,000 residential buildings are without heating (hundreds of thousands of people). It is -8 degrees, and will be up to - 15 in the night.
Russia continues its energy genocide.
January 24, 2026 at 9:21 AM
88,000 families in Kyiv are without electricity after Russia's attack on the city last night.
About 6,000 residential buildings are without heating (hundreds of thousands of people). It is -8 degrees, and will be up to - 15 in the night.
Russia continues its energy genocide.
About 6,000 residential buildings are without heating (hundreds of thousands of people). It is -8 degrees, and will be up to - 15 in the night.
Russia continues its energy genocide.
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The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
🇮🇹 Italians and their...evil software?
Presumably someone wrote "IT software" and fed it to a thesaurus. Then @acm.org accepted it for publication as a "scientific" paper, also ignoring all the other oddities in there.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Presumably someone wrote "IT software" and fed it to a thesaurus. Then @acm.org accepted it for publication as a "scientific" paper, also ignoring all the other oddities in there.
pubpeer.com/publications...
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
🇮🇹 Italians and their...evil software?
Presumably someone wrote "IT software" and fed it to a thesaurus. Then @acm.org accepted it for publication as a "scientific" paper, also ignoring all the other oddities in there.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Presumably someone wrote "IT software" and fed it to a thesaurus. Then @acm.org accepted it for publication as a "scientific" paper, also ignoring all the other oddities in there.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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You can make a community more inclusive by kicking people out! Welcome to paradoxical social dynamics! Thank you for following this thread, please share it with whoever needs to see it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
You can make a community more inclusive by kicking people out! Welcome to paradoxical social dynamics! Thank you for following this thread, please share it with whoever needs to see it.
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When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
January 3, 2026 at 4:06 AM
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
You can never change or guilt it
Just go find the guys who built it
When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv
January 3, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Ironically I think one reason this article is much weaker than it could be is that Sweden clearly did a bad job integrating its author so she's not prioritizing the convincing arguments, instead diluting them with weaker and weirder ones.
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ironically I think one reason this article is much weaker than it could be is that Sweden clearly did a bad job integrating its author so she's not prioritizing the convincing arguments, instead diluting them with weaker and weirder ones.
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Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace
‼️ Movement of missiles and drones during the massive Russian attack on Ukraine
December 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace
Doesn't get more Swiss than this. "We're just fine with the way things are, thanks for asking"
Switzerland, YouGov poll:
UDC/SVP/PPS~RE|ESN|ECR: 28% (-1)
PS/SP-S&D: 18% (+1)
C/M-EPP: 15%
PLR/FDP/PLD-RE: 14%
V/G-G/EFA: 8% (-1)
PVL/GLP-RE: 8% (-1)
+/- vs. 6-20 October 2025
Fieldwork: 31 October - 17 November 2025
Sample size: 3,304
➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland
UDC/SVP/PPS~RE|ESN|ECR: 28% (-1)
PS/SP-S&D: 18% (+1)
C/M-EPP: 15%
PLR/FDP/PLD-RE: 14%
V/G-G/EFA: 8% (-1)
PVL/GLP-RE: 8% (-1)
+/- vs. 6-20 October 2025
Fieldwork: 31 October - 17 November 2025
Sample size: 3,304
➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Doesn't get more Swiss than this. "We're just fine with the way things are, thanks for asking"
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At the ___ Journal of ___, it's always too late to correct the scientific record.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
At the ___ Journal of ___, it's always too late to correct the scientific record.
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"The russian peace plan."
Dobropillia.
Photo samotniyskhid
Dobropillia.
Photo samotniyskhid
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"The russian peace plan."
Dobropillia.
Photo samotniyskhid
Dobropillia.
Photo samotniyskhid
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Hi @springernature.com
How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials?
pubpeer.com/publications...
#autism
How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials?
pubpeer.com/publications...
#autism
PubPeer - Unveiling the multitarget mechanism of Liuwei Dihuang decoct...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Unveiling the multitarget mechanism of Liuwei Dihuang decoction in autism spectrum disorder via network pharmacology and molecular docking (2025)
pubpeer.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hi @springernature.com
How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials?
pubpeer.com/publications...
#autism
How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials?
pubpeer.com/publications...
#autism
Some people doomscroll on BlueSky or other social media, others doomscroll on bad journals... 🐕
i’m going to have to stop scrolling through Scientific Reports contents before I go insane
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ADHD in dogs? 🙀
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ADHD in dogs? 🙀
Development of a human analogue ADHD diagnostic system for family dogs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Development of a human analogue ADHD diagnostic system for family dogs
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some people doomscroll on BlueSky or other social media, others doomscroll on bad journals... 🐕
I'm no longer surprised by problems in @acm.org papers, but these two PubPeer comments deserve a special mention:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm no longer surprised by problems in @acm.org papers, but these two PubPeer comments deserve a special mention:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.
Contrast with my previous repost.
Ukrainian strike drones reportedly hit a military facility of the Rosgvardiya "Akhmat-North" regiment in the Baisangurov district of Grozny.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Contrast with my previous repost.
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The death toll in the russian terrorist strike against Ternopil has risen to 35. The 12yo girl succumbed to her wounds after doctors had hard fought to save her life for 9d. Her mother was killed too and her sister is still in the hospital.
35 innocent souls stolen at once.
35.
35 innocent souls stolen at once.
35.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The death toll in the russian terrorist strike against Ternopil has risen to 35. The 12yo girl succumbed to her wounds after doctors had hard fought to save her life for 9d. Her mother was killed too and her sister is still in the hospital.
35 innocent souls stolen at once.
35.
35 innocent souls stolen at once.
35.