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Richard Northover
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Adjective verber of nouns.
Thoughts here are my own.
You wanna see how conspiracy theories start?

I watched the most recent Jimmy Kimmel intro on YouTube… the voice says “now… Jimmy Kimmel!” but the auto-generated captions translate this to…
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
There are these two young frogs in a pan on a stove, and they happen to meet an older frog paddling the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?”
September 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Had fun talking at an @orcid.org event today. This is my new favourite slide 🙂
Listening to @richard.northover.info in @orcid.org's latest Research Integrity webinar featuring @stmassoc.bsky.social: "Trust in science is built on verifiability." And verifiability is built on identity. ✅ That's where ORCID comes in.
June 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Him takes my taxi
Him helps me with my English
Him tells me it’s “he”
#haiku #uber #procrastinating
March 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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"I was very angry about how easily people’s identities can be misused."
Food scientist impersonated as an editor and reviewer in Frontiers articles
Frontiers has issued a retraction and multiple corrections for papers in several of its journals after the publisher discovered a reviewer had been impersonated. Alla El-Din Bekhit is listed as the…
retractionwatch.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Something I've been working on 👨‍💻🙂 I'd love to hear your thoughts... 🤔 #researchintegrity #RIVER
New Report: Trusted Identity in Academic Research

How can we protect #researchintegrity in an era of fraud & #papermills? Our new Researcher Identity Verification Framework offers recommendations—join us next month to discuss! #STMinDC

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March 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There might be better way to defend against academic fraud, and it doesn’t involve magic black boxes and fighting AI with AI… and I’m writing about it - first report here stm-assoc.org/document/tru... and second report (with ideas) coming next week 👍🏻
March 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Ben’s brilliant, for the record 🙂
This week I’m guest on Now Go Create podcast about the neuroscience of creativity. From the magic of incubation, to why exercise and awe are essential, it's a fun chat and, i hope, a useful one
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#neuroscience #creativity
Ep 08: How to be more creative according to neuroscience
Podcast Episode · Now Go Create · 05/03/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
So if I post here, do people say hello like in the olden days?
March 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Finally got round to importing old Twitter follows into Bluesky... hello everyone :-)
March 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM