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Matthias Wjst, md, prof, Munich — retired but let’s name it graduated —#molecular #epidemiology #datascience #imaging #ethics #integrity
Excellent summary with serious conclusions - forget diets and Wegovy but invest in prevention: better food for children in industrialized countries & creating neighborhoods where walking and cycling are prioritized over cars @kinderdok.bsky.social @adfc.de
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
some unknown facts about COPE and scientific integrity drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/h...
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I have a good A3 candidate from the @nejm.org pubpeer.com/publications...
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Dismantling the CDC
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n
Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function
Upon DNA breakage, a genomic locus undergoes alterations in three-dimensional chromatin architecture to facilitate signaling and repair. Although cells possess mechanisms to repair damaged DNA, it is ...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
You are allowed to photoshop cells, use fake bands, show wrong SEMs - and can "correct" it pubpeer.com/publications...
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Funding cuts to the world’s largest malaria programme could cause nearly 1 million additional deaths by 2030, most among children under five, warns the Global Fund.

Experts say #malaria now poses a greater threat than HIV or TB.

🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/keskxrctcr

#GlobalHealth #EndMalaria
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A new study led by Carlos Chaccour and Matthew Rudd analyses more than 730,000 letters to scientific journals, and raises concerns about the growing use of #AI tools in academic publishing.

Read in @science.org: 🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/ukszxtdgri

#ScienceIntegrity #ResearchEthics #AIinScience
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI
New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
now she is running a start up - shameless called Manhattan Genomics www.wired.com/story/startu...
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
In a new meta-analysis I show that the lower prevalence of allergic diseases at Bavarian farms depends on the sampling strategy. Farm versus non-farm introduced a stratification collider bias. Sorry to say, no protection at all, although a beautiful landscape www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Integrity arguments used as a weapon against integrity
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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When Reviewer Scarcity Becomes a Reason for Rejection, Scientific Integrity Is at Risk: "If journals reject papers due to review shortages, the peer review process itself becomes compromised." Read more via The Scientst: www.the-scientist.com/when-reviewe... #PeerReview #Publishing #ScienceSky
When Reviewer Scarcity Becomes a Reason for Rejection, Scientific Integrity Is at Risk
If journals reject papers due to review shortages, the peer review process itself becomes compromised.
www.the-scientist.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Competition @kaggle.com: Scientific Image Forgery Detection

Who can develop the best model to detect copy/move forgeries in biomedical images?

#ImageForensics

www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Recod.ai/LUC - Scientific Image Forgery Detection
Develop methods that can accurately detect and segment copy-move forgeries within biomedical research images.
www.kaggle.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Is science getting too competitive?

Grant applications are skyrocketing and funding rates are decreasing.

Yet the article in Nature fails to mention the potential role that AI/LLMs in driving up grant applications.

It's becoming a lottery.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...).
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
interesting but too many armchair arguments
October 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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#science

Multiple reports and scientific analyses have documented Trump's anti-science rhetoric and policies, particularly in 2025. Critics have pointed to actions that involve undermining scientific integrity, promoting misinformation, and cutting funding for key research.
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I had a wild dream tonight: someone actually sued the publisher of a fake scientific paper for “aiding and abetting fraud” - because they’d ignored her for over six months. And guess what? She won.
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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In Science, researchers report the observation of dendritic nanotubes in brain tissue from mice and humans. The discovery suggests that the current understanding of the brain’s organization may be incomplete, overlooking a hidden layer of connectivity. #SciencePerspective https://scim.ag/470Cdr4
Hidden networks in the brain
Dendritic nanotubes extend brain connectivity beyond synapses
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October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM