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Josefin Sundin
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Animal ecology, aquatic biology, fish, European eel, fisheries, conservation, anthropogenic stressors, reproducibility and scientific integrity. Associate Professor @SLU Aqua, Stockholm
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shaunkillen.bsky.social
🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now
ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.
ShoalBase.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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jutfelt.bsky.social
Salmon research and leadership position!
(Swedish / Scandinavian language required)

www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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jutfelt.bsky.social
STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
jutfelt.bsky.social Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · Oct 21
Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere.

mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
graham-raby.bsky.social
In this new study, we provide new data relevant to the debate about whether oxygen limitation is a universal driver of thermal tolerance in water breathing animals.

News story: www.trentu.ca/news/story/2...

Paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Primer: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
More Oxygen Won’t Save Fish from Warming Waters
Trent study helps inform long-standing theory about increasing oxygen levels in higher water temperatures to support heat tolerance in aquatic species
www.trentu.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
drewbrayshaw.bsky.social
Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
jutfelt.bsky.social
Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️

Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation

Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Fish embryos under the microscope
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
steamtraen.eu
"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images."

We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
retractionwatch.com
The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field.

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury
Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury
One of the papers in the analysis contained a figure (bottom) found to have overlap with other work by the same author (top). Both papers have been retracted. Annotated images: PubPeer More than 20…
retractionwatch.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
dsquintana.bsky.social
Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices?

Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️
norrepro.bsky.social Norwegian Reproducibility Network @norrepro.bsky.social · 28d
We’re excited to share that NORRN is launching its first-ever Open Science Award to recognise outstanding early career researchers in Norway who champion open science 🏆

Award winners will receive a gift card + certificate, see the application form for more details nettskjema.no/a/531568#/pa...
Two hands on a keyboard typing
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
carlbergstrom.com
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
sholtodavid.bsky.social
Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
nowpas.bsky.social
🐟 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN for #NoWPaS2026!

📍 Hólar University, Iceland 🇮🇸
📅 March 2–7, 2026
🧑‍🔬 For early career researchers on anadromous salmonids
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
👉 forms.gle/unryb2EZEcp1...
ℹ️ nowpas.wordpress.com

Join us in Iceland for science, salmonids, and connections!
NoWPaS 2026 Application form
NoWPaS (International formerly Nordic Workshop for PhD and Post-Doctoral fellows on Anadromous Salmonid research) is an annual workshop, which aims to build and maintain an international network of ea...
forms.gle
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
elisabethbik.bsky.social
Hey @tandfresearch.bsky.social, - you should not allow authors to address photoshopped tumors by just leaving out the photoshopped tumors. This paper was 1 year old at the time of correction. Where are the originals?
Horrible editorial decision.
#ImageForensics
Screenshot of the original published figure (left) and the corrected figure (right). In the left photo we see tumors in a grid of 5 columns and 6 rows. Two sets of tumors are marked by me with blue and green boxes respectively. In the right photo the duplicated tumors are just left out.
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
steamtraen.eu
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Another retraction (#10?) for Srikanta Dash at @tulaneu.bsky.social

I reported this to the journal and the university in March 2021 - more than four years ago.
Despite 10 retractions, he is still a full professor at Tulane.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshots of two figures from the paper, both are showing green fluorescent cells on a black background. I have added colored boxes to highlight duplications/overlaps.
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
lireactivewater.bsky.social
Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people
River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.
September 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
daninyqvist.bsky.social
New review paper titled "Balancing hydropower production and ecology - ecological impacts, mitigation measures, and programmatic monitoring" published in KMAE. With @jnaslund.bsky.social and others. Read it here: www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kma...
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
I would plus one that. Lots of Oncotarget papers have problems. I already have over 200 Oncotarget papers flagged.

Of the 125 problematic papers that I reported 5 years or more ago, about 100 remain unaddressed.

Oncotarget's EiC thinks these images are totally fine.
#ImageForensics
An image showing lots of panels with a black background and green fluorescent cells. Colored boxes of the same color and arrows show overlapping panels or groups of cells found in more than one panel. See: https://pubpeer.com/publications/C494F24D5E8153CB50C082DE5B0B03 Four panels, each showing a grey-colored petridish with bacterial colonies (which look like little irregularly shaped black dots). I have added colored rounded boxes to indicate colonies or groups of colonies that look remarkably similar. See: https://pubpeer.com/publications/0ACA63AC48C60852962E58844828A4
September 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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mkarhulahti.bsky.social
Just learned about this diamond journal, which has apparently been running since 2015! Looks like a very nice place for any meta-sciency work & probably deserves some visibility.

septentrio.uit.no/index.php/no...
Nordic Perspectives on Open Science
Nordic-Baltic journal of Open Access to publications, data, peer review and open science.
septentrio.uit.no
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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elisjthore.bsky.social
New paper! 🥳📜 We reviewed 275 ecology & evolution journals: only 38% mandate data sharing & 27% mandate code sharing. 📉

We share recommendations to help close this gap. 💡

👉 Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
👉 Blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and ev...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
shaunkillen.bsky.social
Fisheries can drive selection, but what about small-scale ornamental fisheries? Our new study shows Amazonian fishes interact w/ traps in species- & environment-specific ways, hinting at overlooked selective potential. Led by @marpineda.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
September 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Josefin Sundin
nature.com
An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills

go.nature.com/3VxA1SD
Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network
A group of companies has flooded 380 journals with hundreds of suspect papers since 2017.
go.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM