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Mark Hooper
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Founder of Tricky Goose Training (https://www.trickygoose.training), COPE Council Member, Philosophy PhD. #researchintegrity #openscience #academicintegrity #philosophy
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Some folks confuse these things —who think the 'water movement' must be flawed, since bottled water is expensive, and contaminated water is poisonous. Clean water and #openaccess both cost $. We don't really need corporations selling packaged products, but communities funding reservoirs and taps.
On the left is a glass of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access.’ In the middle is a plastic bottle of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access, but stupidly costly.’ On the right is a plastic bottle full of putrid water labelled ‘Predatory open access.’
September 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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My daughter made this clay model, and stuck it on my webcam. So, if we’re chatting, know that I’m also speaking with a jaunty goose.
A tiny clay model of a goose sits upon a Logi brand webcam. It has a white body, black eyes, one bigger than the other, and an orange beak. The neck is cocked slightly to its right, as if to convey attitude, or perhaps a lively cheerful manner.
September 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Going through old books to clear shelf space, and donate. Look what I found! Precious four-leaf clovers. And one fiver! The pages of a Bob Dylan lyrics book are a good place to be pressed, I think. I was given this book for my 18th birthday. Perhaps I can keep it.
Seven pressed four-leaf clovers lie on a tissue, which rests on the pages of a Bob Dylan Lyrics coffee-table book. The songs on this page are "Long-Distance Operator" and "This Wheel's on Fire". One pressed five-leaf clover rests on a Bob Dylan Lyrics coffee table book. This page shows the lyrics for "Tombstone Blues".
April 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Fabrication of scientific images is easy and common. If you’re in doubt, go to PubPeer, search “duplication”, & consider the number of dodgy figures discovered in the past hours and days. Can't ignore the problem! Need to discuss it in the open, and better education.
#researchintegrity #academicsky
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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New idea for a card game: “Tortured Academia”. It's based, of course, on the comic tragedy of tortured phrases in publishing ethics. You have to guess the proper academic term based on the absurd description. Fuller explanation on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-h...
#researchintegrity
Mockup image of the draft game. Examples include: DNA’s dramatic monologue (Genetics), Being sadness theory (Philosophy), Fancy lie for meaning (Literature), Quantum feline box of uncertainty (Physics), Pyramid of priorities (Psychology), Animal-to-human oopsie (Health, Epidemiology).
March 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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I made an icon on the Noun Project about six years ago.This is my running total profit. Killing it!
“Great job! Your icons earned you a total of $3.02.”
February 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Image detection tools are wild. Consider this PubPeer comment by @sholtodavid.bsky.social :
pubpeer.com/publications...
However long I looked, I couldn't see the match. But I put them in AfterEffects, messed with their rotation and proportions, and voilà! Would you see it by eye?
#researchintegrity
February 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Ok fine, I will send three more emails, but only if I can have a beer at my desk, and only if it is thereafter the weekend.
Image generated with MidJourney using prompt: "detailed oil painting, in the style of a Rembrandt self portrait, of a man holding a pint of beer at his desk."
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Eek. Hard one for me. I see some weird things in these three spots.
Scientific image containing 12 panels. Three sets of markup (highlighter pen) show potential duplications.
January 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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When you buy second-hand Lego, and your kids complain they can’t find pieces in the giant bin bag, and it’s Sunday morning and the mania strikes.
A table cloth covered in LEGO, ordered in a rough array, sorted by colour.
January 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Dr Lippman, I do not know you, but this is such an excellent first sentence. I'm convinced we would get along.

"The Office of Research Integrity is hardly renowned for its sense of humor."

#researchintegrity
Screenshot of the first section of Alexandra Lippman's paper, "Humor, Hoaxes, and Software in the Search for Academic Misconduct." The first sentence is highlighted, "The Office of Research Integrity is hardly renowned for its sense of humor."
January 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Respectfully, whatever you got for Christmas, it isn’t as good as my pickled cabbage.
A jar of spiced pickled cabbage by ACIDE.
December 29, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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Friendly request to people at #AIMOS2024, since many of you work on paper mills: Pls tell me how I could make this even better. If there were a page 2, what do you think it should say?

PDF and video available under Creative Commons licence here: www.trickygoose.training/downloads
Infographic discussion primer about paper mills. It explains, for example, that paper mills are a toxic business model that preys upon the perverse incentive structures of academia. A diagram of a conveyor belt explains how shoddy papers are produced, and then sold to authors, using AI, and by manipulating editors and publication processes.
November 19, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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It's #PublicationIntegrityWeek and today's topic is #plagiarism.
A useful bit of history is that 13thC Persian literary scientist, Shams-e-Qays had a strikingly modern account of different forms of plagiarism and their relative severity.
See Ramin Sadeghi (pictured segment): doi.org/10.1177/1747...
A screenshot of Sadeghi's paper, which reads: "He categorized plagiarism into four types: Intihal, Salkh, Elmam, and Naql: 1. Intihal (verbatim copy): Shams-e-Qays mentioned that this “means ascribing the exact words of someone to self. This is verbatim copy of the words without change (or very small change).” 2. Salkh: Salkh means flaying and, as Shams-e-Qays mentioned, this “ means using words from another scholar and changing the order of them and using them again.” 3. Elmam: Elmam means approaching, which “means using a concept from another scholar and using them as own with different words.” 4. Naql: Naql means transferring: “This means that a scholar takes a concept from another one and transferring its context.” He gives an example of transferring a concept from a complaint to a eulogy context."
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Totally! Very important, and our research integrity course talks quite a lot about it. Here's just a small section.
Part of an infographic discussion primer. "How do we determine the order of authors?" Two researchers sit either side of a see saw. One contributed software development, critical review, and conceptualization. The other contributed data collection, analysis, and first draft.
November 15, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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Been considering authorship practices in academia, and I think "Guest, Gift and Ghost authorship" no longer describes the full range of unethical issues that we see. Here's a draft longer list. Would love opinions.
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#researchintegrity #academicsky
November 15, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Crabs! One of the cards from our game, "Tricky Questions: Image Duplication Edition", designed to help people identify faulty science. How many duplicated panels can you spot?
[Hint: They might be flipped and/or recoloured!]
#academicsky #researchintegrity
Fifteen panels show photographs of crabs. Some of them are actually the very same photo except recoloured, zoomed, or flipped. It's not too obvious unless you look closely.
November 12, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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We added more things. You're going to need to blame my wife for the Pinocchio funnel.
A picture of a website gift guide and in particular one picture of a water funnel painted to look like Pinocchio.
November 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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How should we assess researchers?
It matters – for our culture, for equity, and because the existing incentive structures of academia fuel shoddy scholarship and fraud. This 1-page A3 discussion primer is free to use under a CC BY NC licence
👉https://www.trickygoose.training/downloads
#academicsky
Infographic discussion primer about researcher assessment by Tricky Goose Training.
October 1, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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Quick mockup of an idea for a card game: "University Hiring Committee". I don't yet know the rules. Maybe you make a team and it has to win funding and please the students, but if it's toxic, things go bad. Your ideas very welcome. #academicsky
Mockup of four playing cards. Each shows an imaginary researcher and certain information about them - e.g. their impact on policy, their h-index, and a sample quote.
September 9, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Research integrity — how it's taught, and what it really is.
#academicsky #researchintegrity
A cross section of the ocean. On the surface are some boats, labelled "Compliance", "rules" and "policies". Underneath the ocean is a complex ecosystem of creatures, treasures and wrecks labelled after complex issues in research integrity such as "researcher assessment", "paper mills", "detection tools", and many others.
January 29, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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Updated our discussion primer about paper mills to reference this recent piece about bribery: www.science.org/content/arti...
You can download and use our primer here:
👉https://trickygoose.training/downloads
#researchintegrity #academicsky
An infographic discussion primer about paper mills on one A3 page. For example, the business models of paper mills is represented as a conveyor belt with numerous stages. Challenging questions and links to literature are provided for discussion.
January 26, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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I've had lots of interesting discussions lately about paper mills. Possibly the biggest current threat to trust in research? If you'd like to use our new resource to promote discussion, it's available under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC licence. trickygoose.training/downloads
#academicsky
Infographic A3 discussion primer for researchers about paper mills.
January 4, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Looking through my folder of abandoned training ideas. I'm sad this one isn't viable — a course for research supervisors, based on a menu full of extremely bad puns. "Regular ketchup" "Reliable sauces" "Confits of interest" #Academicsky
A picture of a menu titled "Degustation" which is really the agenda for a course about research supervision.
January 4, 2024 at 11:04 PM