Whats better than "publish or perperish" and "publish high or perish"?
"publish high as a first or last author or perish" !
Sometimes I feel like the people who invent these metrics have never actually done academic research.

Durable epigenetic silencing with a TALE-based editor #NBTNV - @stanleyqilab.bsky.social go.nature.com/4q3YvRE

Don't forget the "Do you own research" fraction of "independent thinkers" who "don't just trust the main stream" and all the other people who would rather drink bleach because some person on the internet told them then consulting a medical doctor.

u know who are skeptics
scientists are skeptics

being anti-science is not being a skeptic

Maybe, but there is this notion that, as long as ppl deliver a lot of data, everything goes. Also, most underestimate the impact of a well maintained microscope on image quality

TK: Authors did not reply or replied that they did not care if the paper would be retracted - they just needed it to graduate.
Retaliation: we received lots of spam after retracting papers.
We learned that paper mills can abuse peer review system. Do not rely on author-suggested reviewers.
#PRC10

Assuming their PI cares about such things...

Agree. Don't know why it's so hard for some people to clean up after themselves. Sometimes I feel more scientist should learn how damn expensive this stuff is

Being friends with the head of our imaging facility, I learned that 9 out of 10 times blurry images at the 20x air objective are not the result of a damaged lens but of a fine crust of immersion oil on or within the objective.