Surinder Singh
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Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
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November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁
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(This is in Springer Nature's Scientific Reports btw)
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
(This is in Springer Nature's Scientific Reports btw)
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
The ethics and integrity team at SN told me "We can confirm that the query has been received and logged for review in line with COPE guidelines."
I'd say... this should have an expression of concern ASAP, if not outright retraction.
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Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
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An international computing society has begun retracting conference papers for “citation falsification” only months after the sleuth who flagged the suspect articles was convicted for defamation in a lawsuit filed by one of the offending authors.
Computing society pulls works for ‘citation falsification’ months after sleuth is convicted of defamation
Solal Pirelli An international computing society has begun retracting conference papers for “citation falsification” only months after the sleuth who flagged the suspect articles was convicted for …
retractionwatch.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
An international computing society has begun retracting conference papers for “citation falsification” only months after the sleuth who flagged the suspect articles was convicted for defamation in a lawsuit filed by one of the offending authors.
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Photosynthetic sea slugs can decapitate themselves & regenerate whole body from the detached head (without the heart or guts), while the shed body do not regenerate. The process takes ~2-3 weeks. A new model for regeneration?
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs
Autotomy, the voluntary shedding of a body part, is common among animals. Mitoh and
Yusa report an extreme case of autotomy with the shedding of the main body, including
the whole heart, and subsequen...
www.cell.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Photosynthetic sea slugs can decapitate themselves & regenerate whole body from the detached head (without the heart or guts), while the shed body do not regenerate. The process takes ~2-3 weeks. A new model for regeneration?
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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LISTEN UP, DORKS!
@standupforscience.bsky.social is getting (even more!) political. People often say "well what can one person do??"
🥊 If all our followers joined Science Fight Club and gave $5 a month, we could save science!
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@standupforscience.bsky.social is getting (even more!) political. People often say "well what can one person do??"
🥊 If all our followers joined Science Fight Club and gave $5 a month, we could save science!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
LISTEN UP, DORKS!
@standupforscience.bsky.social is getting (even more!) political. People often say "well what can one person do??"
🥊 If all our followers joined Science Fight Club and gave $5 a month, we could save science!
🥊Join here: www.standupforscience.net/join-science...
SHARE WIDELY!
@standupforscience.bsky.social is getting (even more!) political. People often say "well what can one person do??"
🥊 If all our followers joined Science Fight Club and gave $5 a month, we could save science!
🥊Join here: www.standupforscience.net/join-science...
SHARE WIDELY!
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They were already suspended, now they're delisted.
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
Embattled journal Cureus delisted from Web of Science, loses impact factor
Clarivate has removed the mega-journal Cureus from its Master Journal List, according to the October update, released today. The move means Cureus will no longer be indexed in Web of Science …
retractionwatch.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They were already suspended, now they're delisted.
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
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For others troubled by the exoneration of Hoau-Yan Wang, there's an analysis of the difficulty prosecuting scientific fraudsters at 13:00 in this @bjkspod.bsky.social podcast. I didn't anticipate the role of institutional research integrity offices in manufacturing "reasonable doubts."
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
For others troubled by the exoneration of Hoau-Yan Wang, there's an analysis of the difficulty prosecuting scientific fraudsters at 13:00 in this @bjkspod.bsky.social podcast. I didn't anticipate the role of institutional research integrity offices in manufacturing "reasonable doubts."
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I was on 🇨🇦 CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks last weekend to talk about systematic scientific fraud! Listen to the 18-minute segment here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Nov 1: Sleuthing out scientific fraud, and more... | CBC Radio
On this week's episode: selling sunlight on demand, rhinos roamed Canada’s Arctic 23 million years ago, making a more precise parachute using kirigami, the winner of this year's prestigious Gerhard He...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I was on 🇨🇦 CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks last weekend to talk about systematic scientific fraud! Listen to the 18-minute segment here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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"If we are to rebuild our scientific enterprise, we will need the support of the American people, and that means cleaning up our house. Policies to forbid ghostwriting and strong sanctions for researchers who violate those policies would be a good place to start."
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Cleaning the scientific house: Rebuilding trust in science requires confronting the harms of ghostwriting
American science is under attack. Recent cuts to funding and staffing of federal agencies, layoffs of scientists, and rescission of billions of dollars in grants are unprecedented in US history and th...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"If we are to rebuild our scientific enterprise, we will need the support of the American people, and that means cleaning up our house. Policies to forbid ghostwriting and strong sanctions for researchers who violate those policies would be a good place to start."
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.
Review mill in Italy targeting ob-gyn journals, researchers allege
Examples of “boilerplate” text used in the suspect reviews.M.A. Oviedo-Garcia et al/medRxiv 2025 A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific…
retractionwatch.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.
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Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A journal dead (correction: discontinued!!) and the papers that lived. A saga of Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy.
www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...
Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...
Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social
A journal dead (correction: discontinued!!) and the papers that lived. | Mu Yang
A journal dead (correction: discontinued!!) and the papers that lived.
I don’t assume causality across the sequential events below:
> Early 2023: This paper was one of many that were reported to...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A journal dead (correction: discontinued!!) and the papers that lived. A saga of Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy.
www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...
Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...
Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social
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We will fight back with this
October 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We will fight back with this
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This study on effects of probiotics in Parkinson's clinical trial has been retracted. pubpeer.com/publications.... This yogurt stuff confuses me: Could impair sociability pubpeer.com/publications... but help with Parkinson's?? I guess both studies are goofy. I love yogurt.
August 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This study on effects of probiotics in Parkinson's clinical trial has been retracted. pubpeer.com/publications.... This yogurt stuff confuses me: Could impair sociability pubpeer.com/publications... but help with Parkinson's?? I guess both studies are goofy. I love yogurt.
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Read how @jsmoliga.bsky.social and @mumumouse2.bsky.social made a woodpecker disappear!
October 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Read how @jsmoliga.bsky.social and @mumumouse2.bsky.social made a woodpecker disappear!
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Wiley: "After a detailed analysis of the concerns for each remaining article, we did not find anything to require further action on these articles. ......As such, we are now closing our investigation."
Me: yeah but what about the O peaks at 8.5 KeV ....😅
pubpeer.com/publications...
Me: yeah but what about the O peaks at 8.5 KeV ....😅
pubpeer.com/publications...
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wiley: "After a detailed analysis of the concerns for each remaining article, we did not find anything to require further action on these articles. ......As such, we are now closing our investigation."
Me: yeah but what about the O peaks at 8.5 KeV ....😅
pubpeer.com/publications...
Me: yeah but what about the O peaks at 8.5 KeV ....😅
pubpeer.com/publications...
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Tale of two retractions. www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...
July 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Tale of two retractions. www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...
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Ayman Atta (KSU, EPRI) has earned 5 more #SciRetraction, all from ACS Omega! 👍Kudos to @acs.org @pubs.acs.org
🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️
#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine
🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️
#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Ayman Atta (KSU, EPRI) has earned 5 more #SciRetraction, all from ACS Omega! 👍Kudos to @acs.org @pubs.acs.org
🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️
#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine
🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️
#ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci
#ThisImageIsFine
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I spoke to Savina Kirilova about misuse of ResearchGate for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Does ResearchGate have a growing credibility problem?
A librarian who claims researchers are gaming the system by using fake profiles and inflated metrics explains how the platform can combat misuse.
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I spoke to Savina Kirilova about misuse of ResearchGate for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Researchers in India fear they may lose access to academic papers after an Indian court’s decision to block the pirate website Sci-Hub — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
Researchers in India worry about access amid Sci-Hub ban
Court order makes it harder for scientists in India to access pirate scientific paper site
cen.acs.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Researchers in India fear they may lose access to academic papers after an Indian court’s decision to block the pirate website Sci-Hub — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
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Good God.
Updated this story @taskandpurpose.com. Ohio and South Carolina are joining West Virginia in sending National Guard troops in DC. That brings the number of Guardsmen activated for this to ~1,500. taskandpurpose.com/news/west-vi...
3 states sending 700 National Guard troops to DC
At least 700 National Guard troops will be sent to Washington, D.C., nearly doubling the number of Guardsmen active in the capital.
taskandpurpose.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Good God.
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Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
August 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White House—peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.
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🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
n.pr
August 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.