Eugenie Reich
@eugenie-reich.bsky.social
Founder of boutique law firm representing whistleblowers of scientific fraud. "Plastic Fantastic: How The Biggest Fraud In Physics Shook The Scientific World" at https://tinyurl.com/yft98tp5; BJKS Podcast at https://shorturl.at/Los8Y.
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Eugenie Reich
@eugenie-reich.bsky.social
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Plastic Fantastic: How The Biggest Fraud In Physics Shook The Scientific World
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I'm very happy to say that Plastic Fantastic, my book on scientific fraud at Bell Laboratories, is available online as an affordable paperback or ebook. The content is the same but it has taken taken months to reformat after rights reverted to me from the original publisher.
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In 1969, @physicstoday.bsky.social asked readers to help identify a 1932 APS banquet photo. The replies—annotated copies, letters, stories—became part of AIP’s archives. I wrote about what this early “crowdsourcing” effort tells us about collective memory in science. www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In 1969, @physicstoday.bsky.social asked readers to help identify a 1932 APS banquet photo. The replies—annotated copies, letters, stories—became part of AIP’s archives. I wrote about what this early “crowdsourcing” effort tells us about collective memory in science. www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
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Why the brand of phase separation proposed by Tony Hyman is pseudoscientific and why it makes him incompatible with leadership of EMBL @embl.org, a major European institution in Molecular Biology #MolecularBiology
🧵A thread
#science #PhaseSeparation #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
🧵A thread
#science #PhaseSeparation #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Why the brand of phase separation proposed by Tony Hyman is pseudoscientific and why it makes him incompatible with leadership of EMBL @embl.org, a major European institution in Molecular Biology #MolecularBiology
🧵A thread
#science #PhaseSeparation #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
🧵A thread
#science #PhaseSeparation #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky
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...new STS natural experiment just dropped.
This is by a large margin the most serious problem and mistake in conference peer review I have seen in my career. Apparently a many people were aware of this and many could find out who their reviewers were. This probably has created a large number of unnecessary enmities.
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
...new STS natural experiment just dropped.
If you're in Boston this coming Monday and interested in improving the incentives for scientists to publish reliable research (and remove the burden on others to check!), please RSVP for the monthly Reproducibility Salon so we can have reliable numbers for food! It's at 7pm in Davis Sq. Somerville.
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you're in Boston this coming Monday and interested in improving the incentives for scientists to publish reliable research (and remove the burden on others to check!), please RSVP for the monthly Reproducibility Salon so we can have reliable numbers for food! It's at 7pm in Davis Sq. Somerville.
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Link to the Science Advances article discussed in quoted link.
It is a *very* wide ranging study that tries to date this rock art, put it in a paleoclimate context, and link the art itself to the concept of an enduring Mesoamerican cosmovision (a thing that's kind of contested in its own right).
It is a *very* wide ranging study that tries to date this rock art, put it in a paleoclimate context, and link the art itself to the concept of an enduring Mesoamerican cosmovision (a thing that's kind of contested in its own right).
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Link to the Science Advances article discussed in quoted link.
It is a *very* wide ranging study that tries to date this rock art, put it in a paleoclimate context, and link the art itself to the concept of an enduring Mesoamerican cosmovision (a thing that's kind of contested in its own right).
It is a *very* wide ranging study that tries to date this rock art, put it in a paleoclimate context, and link the art itself to the concept of an enduring Mesoamerican cosmovision (a thing that's kind of contested in its own right).
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i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti
i mean is this where u draw the line
i mean is this where u draw the line
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti
i mean is this where u draw the line
i mean is this where u draw the line
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Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!)
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
$7M grant from NASA, Schmidt Sciences to upgrade arXiv | Cornell Chronicle
The funding will help arXiv – which is maintained and operated by Cornell Tech – finish migrating to cloud infrastructure and modernizing its code.
news.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!)
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Next Monday Dec 1 At 7pm after the holiday: Reproducibilily Salon will meet at my house in the Boston area to discuss incentives to get science right first time and before anyone else has to help out by reproducibility efforts! Please RSVP on meetup or to eugenie@eugeniereichlaw.com
Reproducibility Salon: Getting Science Right First Time, Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
We've all followed scientific community discussion about the desirability of funding and publishing efforts to replicate research: but an important consideration is how har
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November 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Next Monday Dec 1 At 7pm after the holiday: Reproducibilily Salon will meet at my house in the Boston area to discuss incentives to get science right first time and before anyone else has to help out by reproducibility efforts! Please RSVP on meetup or to eugenie@eugeniereichlaw.com
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I don't remember one materials science expert in that original WSJ article. Why were experts in the actual subject not consulted? Why rely on the words of economists that this is something revelatory?
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I don't remember one materials science expert in that original WSJ article. Why were experts in the actual subject not consulted? Why rely on the words of economists that this is something revelatory?
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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Thanks to everyone who came to Sydney for #AIMOS2025! I can't wait to see you in Wellington, NZ next year!
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to Sydney for #AIMOS2025! I can't wait to see you in Wellington, NZ next year!
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Good morning from Sydney! Today is Day 2 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference
I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications
Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd
#AIMOS2025
I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications
Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd
#AIMOS2025
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Good morning from Sydney! Today is Day 2 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference
I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications
Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd
#AIMOS2025
I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications
Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd
#AIMOS2025
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Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
I'm excited about my Lightning Talk at @aimosinc.bsky.social about how professionals tell the difference between scientific fraud and scientific error at 1.30pm today. After I invite all those with interest or experience in this to join my afternoon workshop and help add their tools and insights.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I'm excited about my Lightning Talk at @aimosinc.bsky.social about how professionals tell the difference between scientific fraud and scientific error at 1.30pm today. After I invite all those with interest or experience in this to join my afternoon workshop and help add their tools and insights.
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We end today's conference day with a discussion led by Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz @gidmk.bsky.social
Anyone who has tried to report concerns will have experienced how journals and institutions defer responsibility to the other party and how they 'investigate' and find 'no misconduct'.
#IRICSydney
Anyone who has tried to report concerns will have experienced how journals and institutions defer responsibility to the other party and how they 'investigate' and find 'no misconduct'.
#IRICSydney
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We end today's conference day with a discussion led by Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz @gidmk.bsky.social
Anyone who has tried to report concerns will have experienced how journals and institutions defer responsibility to the other party and how they 'investigate' and find 'no misconduct'.
#IRICSydney
Anyone who has tried to report concerns will have experienced how journals and institutions defer responsibility to the other party and how they 'investigate' and find 'no misconduct'.
#IRICSydney
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I think this is an overly pessimistic take from the @bmj.com.
Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration.
This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.
Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration.
This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I think this is an overly pessimistic take from the @bmj.com.
Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration.
This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.
Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration.
This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.
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Guys! I've got a little nuclear mystery for you!
I've had complaints about the AP caption of this image, which says its "a sub-surface atomic test" from March 23, 1955.
That would make it a photo of the Operation Teapot ESS (Effects Subsurface) test.
I think it might be labelled wrong...
I've had complaints about the AP caption of this image, which says its "a sub-surface atomic test" from March 23, 1955.
That would make it a photo of the Operation Teapot ESS (Effects Subsurface) test.
I think it might be labelled wrong...
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Guys! I've got a little nuclear mystery for you!
I've had complaints about the AP caption of this image, which says its "a sub-surface atomic test" from March 23, 1955.
That would make it a photo of the Operation Teapot ESS (Effects Subsurface) test.
I think it might be labelled wrong...
I've had complaints about the AP caption of this image, which says its "a sub-surface atomic test" from March 23, 1955.
That would make it a photo of the Operation Teapot ESS (Effects Subsurface) test.
I think it might be labelled wrong...
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Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
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2025 is not over yet! Still unclear if I will remain intact by new year... especially if I have to review further papers by a certain colleague...
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
2025 is not over yet! Still unclear if I will remain intact by new year... especially if I have to review further papers by a certain colleague...
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A little less than a year ago, a large team of cosmologists reported evidence that dark energy (which drives the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe) evolves over time. This made a huge splash but has also been viewed with healthy skepticism. Today they report that evidence has weakened. 🧪
The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: A Reanalysis Of Cosmology Results And Evidence For Evolving Dark Energy With An Updated Type Ia Supernova Calibration
We present improved cosmological constraints from a re-analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-year sample of Type Ia supernovae (DES-SN5YR). This re-analysis includes an improved photometric cross...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A little less than a year ago, a large team of cosmologists reported evidence that dark energy (which drives the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe) evolves over time. This made a huge splash but has also been viewed with healthy skepticism. Today they report that evidence has weakened. 🧪
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If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
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I am excited to share our new preprint on our structural and biochemical analyses of human methionine synthase (MTR). This was the hard work of Douglas Ferreira who carried out this research as a significant part of his PhD. #CryoEM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Structural insights into cobalamin loading and reactivation of human methionine synthase
Human methionine synthase (MTR) is an essential enzyme of one carbon metabolism. Consisting of a catalytic N-half and a cobalamin binding C-half, MTR utilises this intricate organometallic cofactor in...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I am excited to share our new preprint on our structural and biochemical analyses of human methionine synthase (MTR). This was the hard work of Douglas Ferreira who carried out this research as a significant part of his PhD. #CryoEM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thank you to my hosts at Sandia National Laboratories for this recording of "Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century," my evolving lecture highlighting root causes of the 2002 Bell Labs case that remain with us today. tinyurl.com/mvhsh844
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Thank you to my hosts at Sandia National Laboratories for this recording of "Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century," my evolving lecture highlighting root causes of the 2002 Bell Labs case that remain with us today. tinyurl.com/mvhsh844
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I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
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have you seen the video about teaching an octopus to play piano yet
it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
have you seen the video about teaching an octopus to play piano yet
it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...