Mircea Ivan
mirceaivan.bsky.social
Mircea Ivan
@mirceaivan.bsky.social
Scientist & citizen of the world, discoverer of cellular oxygen sensors (essential contribution to 2019 Nobel Prize). Interested in scientific rigor, integrity and reformation of scholarly publishing. Opinions are strictly personal.
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@tkes.bsky.social and @nvitiensis.bsky.social are world's most underrated sleuths who are also insanely thorough and diligent. Check out their posts to see what I mean. pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Evaluation of newly synthesized nanocomposites containing th...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Evaluation of newly synthesized nanocomposites containing thiazole modified aluminium nitride nanoparticles for aerospace applications (2022)
pubpeer.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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A true piece of art.
Rahimi et al. 2020 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115696) in 'Carbohydrate Polymers' (A true bastion of #ResearchIntegrity)
pubpeer.com/publications...

pisses me of that animals had to suffer for this fake sh*t.
February 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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new paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues documenting the disturbing phenonmenon of stealth corrections in the scientific literature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Existence of Stealth Corrections in Scientific Literature—A Threat to Scientific Integrity
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Terrible! “Study aimed to improve detection of brain injury from intimate partner violence, but critics say its non-fatal strangulation of animals was not justified” - Australia

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Domestic violence study that strangled rats should not have been approved, animal advocates argue
Study aimed to improve detection of brain injury from intimate partner violence, but critics say its non-fatal strangulation of animals was not justified
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I asked Grok to start commenting on academic fraud.
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February 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I've said it before, but I love @mfenner.bsky.social's Rogue Scholar service. With a bit of help from Martin on the Slack forum, I can now pre-assign DOIs to blog posts that I write and that it aggregates. It's really fantastic. rogue-scholar.org
Rogue Scholar
rogue-scholar.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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First author , now full Prof at Harvard… Tons of high profile papers with manipulated figures and questionable data . This is how we cure cancer ?…
PubPeer - Both p16(Ink4a) and the p19(Arf)-p53 pathway constrain progr...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Both p16(Ink4a) and the p19(Arf)-p53 pathway constrain progression of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in the mouse (2006)
pubpeer.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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"always hope I'm not missing important ones" - Damn, if only there was some way to check.
January 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Signed. ✍🏼
January 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research nature.com/articles/d4158…
Kudos to @deadneanderthals.bsky.social @nickwizzo @SmutClyde @AbalkinaAnna @gcabanac @MicrobiomDigest Cyril Labbe, @JAByrneSci @deevybee !
https://nature.com/articles/d4158…
January 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Working on a new book with @mirceaivan.bsky.social related to this subject.

Important news, flying under the radar.

Thank you Science Friday for highlighting this.
There have been at least 20 mass resignations from scientific journals since 2023.

In today’s episode, we explore the reasons behind these resignations and what they mean for the future of scientific publishing.

Listen here 🎧:
https://buff.ly/3Mut28J
January 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Relevant to what @mirceaivan.bsky.social and I are collaborating on regarding sci publications.
“…digital information literacy must include the competence of critical ignoring—choosing what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.”
If you are someone who takes refuge in thinking & reading (hello team!) here's a paper a friend gave me today. I appreciate the framing and suspect I will enjoy reading this - "Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Dear friends, please add your signature to the Google Doc using the link above. Also pls distribute this as much as you can, hopefully we reach a critical mass for the next steps. @deevybee.bsky.social @infotainment.bsky.social @badsciencedebunked.bsky.social
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pz…
January 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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From @csaid.bsky.social. Seems like someone @mirceaivan.bsky.social should get in touch with. I generally like the idea of treating fraud no differently in the research field. How about opening up *qui tam* cases against public institutions too?

chris-said.io/2024/06/17/t...
The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct
For a crime that could cost millions of lives, universities have failed to police themselves
chris-said.io
June 18, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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This is the most inspiring bottom-up #metascience initiative I've seen in months:

The Agora Manifesto, a plan for:

1. training data sleuths to detect research waste 🧑‍🎓
2. educating the public about scientific misconduct 📰

tinyurl.com/5f94czp9

@mirceaivan.bsky.social
#SciComment
September 16, 2024 at 8:05 PM
www.alzforum.org/news/communi....

Read carefully and you will understand how low academia has been sinking.
Data Fabrication Ousted NIA Neuroscience Director Eliezer Masliah | ALZFORUM
www.alzforum.org
December 17, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Answers like these …, one wonders if the experiments have even been done…
PubPeer - CRM1 Inhibition Promotes Cytotoxicity in Ewing Sarcoma Cells...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: CRM1 Inhibition Promotes Cytotoxicity in Ewing Sarcoma Cells by Repressing EWS-FLI1–Dependent IGF-1 Signaling (2016)
pubpeer.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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"Researchers studying ageing disagree on just about everything — including what ageing is, whether it is a disease and when it starts — according to a survey of about 100 scientists working in the field."
by @smritimallapaty.bsky.social in Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What is ageing? Even the field’s researchers can’t agree
Survey of scientists who study ageing finds no consensus on the fundamentals.
www.nature.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:36 PM
I agree with Rene …
December 3, 2024 at 4:35 PM
I agree with Rene…
December 4, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Exactly !
The research should be a living thing continuously updated and re-evaluated. the career value should depend on the current ratings/use/credibility of the body of work
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM