I'm delighted to have been involved in this great project! We sequenced #microbes (pro- & eukaryotic) from food around the world & integrated them w/ publicly-available #food #metagenomes in a standardized way to make it available via MASTER IA H2020 database called cFMD! 🧵1/6

Every woman over a certain age knows what it's like to be a victim of this sort of "in the name of fun" at the office.

The robes: trashbags. I wore trashbags, shower caps, & was instructed to reuse masks The therapeutics: never-ending IVM/HCQ grift The ventilators: the shortage that was ignored, Elon's cpap machines, statements about doctors who shouldn't be using these many ventilators

🙏Dove Medical Press T&F Medicine & Healthcare for retracting "TRIM11 Promotes Proliferation, Migration, Invasion & EMT of Gastric Cancer by Activating β-Catenin Signaling" for issues with #CellLines International Journal of Cancer Retraction Watch Danielle Oste Pranujan Pathmendra HT Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex dovepress.com/retraction-tri…

#ReviewMills represent serious misconduct that perverts the nature and the raison d’être of peer reviews and, at worst, erodes trust in science or, at least, in published scientifc fndings. Read more at rdcu.be/dPJtG

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic📷 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Sign up here by 9/13: bit.ly/comicscollabfa……

Subject matter expert needed. These two FACS plots have identical regions, but there are small differences (see green and red). Journal just published a correction. Q: Is it possible for this to occur by accident?

A recent article in Retraction Watch reported on an author finding a plagiarised version of their paper published in an Elsevier journal. I have the advert selling authorship of that paper, and a dozen others. 🧵 retractionwatch.com/2024/07/04/els… forbetterscience.com/2024/09/02/any…

Yet another increase to our database of external images! 📈 Your images will now be compared to 75 million images in the database!

'Dana-Farber CEO Laurie Glimcher to step down next month' Larry Edelman writes The Boston Globe The article only casually mentions (at the end) the ~50 concerning Dana Farber articles posted to @[email protected], 11 of which were authored by Dr. Glimcher. bostonglobe.com/2024/09/03/bus…

Good to be back home in the Netherlands. Thank you lovely KLM crew for a safe flight. Schiphol in the early morning.

My new book is published today by birlinnbooks. #China troubled but predatory #economy remains addictive to some, but also coercive, corrupt & surreal as CCP ruthlessly bends business to its will - but is fast running out of options Alicia Kearns MP Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯

There should be a deadline for authors to give them a chance to reply. E.g. after 2 weeks, send them another email, then after another 2 weeks, journals can take action. Maybe COPE could include that in their guidelines?

Question to my Italian followers about the For Better Science blog: forbetterscience.com Can folks access this blog from Italy without VPN?