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Guillaume Cabanac
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‘Deception Sleuth’ #Nature10 Scientist go.nature.com/3B29NgY • CS Prof. Univ. Toulouse @IUFrance.bsky.social • Metascience + Scientific Text Mining • https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · Jun 30
Use #bibCheck if you are a French academic: it's an online tool that audits bibliographies and reports retracted or inexistent references, developed in collaboration with @cnrs-inist.bsky.social (see slide 25 ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-05646645...). Otherwise check github.com/gianlucasb/h...
bibCheck
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serhiinazarovets.bsky.social
I presented some of my recent work at @iritoulouse.bsky.social Seminar – from strange bibliometric patterns and #GenAI to research integrity and research climate. Many thanks to @gcabanac.cpesr.fr for the invitation! doi.org/10.13140/RG.... #scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #bibliometrics
(PDF) Apparently, it’s called forensic scientometrics: What happens after we find something wrong?
PDF | This presentation was prepared for the research seminar at the Informatics Research Institute of Toulouse (IRIT), 11 September 2026. It brings... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
doi.org
September 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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gcabanac.cpesr.fr
The PPS Tortured detector tabulates 8626 IEEE articles with tortured phrases, 62% of which have been posted on @PubPeer.com: dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p.... The PPS Annulled detector finds that 46% (3966/8626) of the IEEE articles with tortured phrases are retracted: dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p...
August 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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jeffreybrainard.bsky.social
Hundreds of ads by #papermills, offering authorship on scientific articles for a fee, wound up published in conference proceedings. Are these venues a back-door route that’s too easy? #scicomm #retractions #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
www.science.org
August 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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sholtodavid.bsky.social
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
August 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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tomk.eurosky.social
Sounds like @gcabanac.cpesr.fr 's tortured phrases!
gro-tsen.bsky.social Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · Jul 27
So, IBM publishes machine-generated translations of AIX documentation on its Web site, and the French translation of awk documentation translated “sin” and “log” (the math functions) as if they were the words for a religious transgression and a journal respectively. 🤣
« Fonctions arithmétiques Les fonctions arithmétiques suivantes exécutent les mêmes actions que les sous-routines de langage C sous le même nom: atan2( Y, X ) Renvoie l'arc tangente de Y/X. Cos ( X ) Renvoie le cosinus de X; X est en radians. Péché ( X ) Renvoie le péché de X; X est en radians. Exp ( X ) Renvoie la fonction exponentielle de X. Journal ( X ) Renvoie le logarithme naturel de X. Sqrt ( X ) Renvoie la racine carrée de X. »
July 27, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social
Thanks to AI, one can generate SEM images in full color now!

Sabet, M. Halogen-free polymer composites: advancing sustainable and high-performance flexible electronics. Iran Polym J 34, 599–624 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s137...
July 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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smutclyde.bsky.social
Today in Serious Scientific Publishing.
July 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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gcabanac.cpesr.fr
Use #bibCheck if you are a French academic: it's an online tool that audits bibliographies and reports retracted or inexistent references, developed in collaboration with @cnrs-inist.bsky.social (see slide 25 ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-05646645...). Otherwise check github.com/gianlucasb/h...
bibCheck
June 30, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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cosig.net
Today, COSIG and Sal Sleuthmander turn 1 year old! 🎂

Contributions to COSIG are the best birthday gifts we can ever receive, many thanks to all of our contributors 🎉
Sal Sleuthmander, a Chinese giant salamander, sports a conical birthday hat and gazes appreciatively over his cake with a 1 candle.
June 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Very interesting. Springer retracted two essays from the early 1940s by Max Planck. Apparently because of "duplicate publication" - similar things (also by Planck) appeared elsewhere. But back in the day, that was common and not thought of as bad! There wasn't an internet to spread papers around.
arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social physics.soc-ph @arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · May 19
The Curious Case of Max Planck retracted papers. When past scientific practices meet contemporary publishing norms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17534
May 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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deevybee.bsky.social
C'mon, @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social - after all the effort sleuths put in to hunt down the papermill products, is this the best you can do? A "correction"?
If you want to be taken seriously as a publisher you need to weed out the gobbledegook.
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Plants: A Key Emphasis to Its Pharmacological Potential
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Plants: A Key Emphasis to Its Pharmacological Potential (2019)
pubpeer.com
May 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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dalmeet.bsky.social
Brokers of scientific fraud are constantly innovating and expanding. Companies looking to spot and tackle their activities are doing the same. My latest feature for @cenmag.bsky.social:

cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

@clearskiesadam.bsky.social, @stmassoc.bsky.social, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

#WCRI2026
May 14, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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opsnum.bsky.social
📖 Nouveau rapport de l'OPSN !
Comment la presse française raconte-t-elle les réseaux sociaux depuis vingt ans ?
🔍"Aux origines d'un monde" analyse plus de 150 000 articles et retrace la trajectoire médiatiques des plateformes, de Facebook à TikTok.
📂 opsn.univ-tlse3.fr/rapports-de-...
RAPPORT - AUX ORIGINES D'UN MONDE. Les réseaux socionumériques dans la presse quotidienne française (2003-2024) - Observatoire des pratiques socio-numériques
opsn.univ-tlse3.fr
May 11, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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solalpirelli.bsky.social
Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences?

New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social :
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458

We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵
Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...
arxiv.org
April 27, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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reeserichardson.bsky.social
How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper?

To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries.

Link below!
A boxplot with authorship slot (1st author through 5th author) on the x axis and price in USD on the y axis. Prices are split by paper mill of origin.
April 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Retraction at a Spandidos journal 👏
I posted it on PubPeer in 2020, but did not get around to sending it to the publisher until March 2025. Then, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr found more problems.
It's a beauty.
#FlawCytometry
HT: @smutclyde.bsky.social
pubpeer.com/publications...
A figure with 6 Flow Cytometry panels. Red dots in 'clouds', and each panel has a cross dividing the dots into the 4 quadrants. I have added rounded boxes in a variety of colors to highlight areas that appear to be shared between the panels.
April 24, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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miryamnaddaf.bsky.social
My colleague & I teamed up w/ Grounded AI to look for fake/hallucinated references. Our analysis suggests that at least tens of thousands of publications from 2025 likely contain such references. More detz at @nature.com, w/ input from @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, @mhmdhsini.bsky.social & @kowb.bsky.social.
Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
New blog post: The Camel's Camel.
Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder.
#TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...
A cartoon drawing of a light brown camel with one hump. At the position where one might find an udder, we see a baby camel hanging. It is to illustrate the absurdity of the sentence "The definition and definition of microbes on the camel’s camel is very important ", found in the abstract of a paper about the camel udder microbiome.
March 13, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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retractionwatch.com
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers
Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
www.nature.com
March 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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grahamkendall.bsky.social
Stealth corrections are still a threat to scientific integrity. If you are not familiar with stealth corrections, please read this.

This guest post is on @deevybee.bsky.social's blog and is authored by from René Aquarius, Floris Schoeters, Alex Glynn and @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

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February 26, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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grandlabo.com
NOUVEL EP - Comment devient-on un "détective" de la #science ?

Avec @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, prof. à l'Université de Toulouse et concepteur du "Problematic Paper Screener".

youtu.be/pNdLmsXDVn0
Qui sont les "détectives de la science" ?
YouTube video by Grand Labo
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February 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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deadneanderthals.bsky.social
We wrote a 1-year update post on stealth corrections. Thank you @deevybee.bsky.social for hosting it.

We also wrote a @cosig.net guide to make reporting stealth corrections more streamlined

cc: @gcabanac.cpesr.fr
February 20, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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nanobubbles.bsky.social
📰 David Adam reports for Nature News on our Replication Initiative

"A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells."

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@nature.com
Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts
A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.
www.nature.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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mhmdhsini.bsky.social
Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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jacksonwryan.com
🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.

Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?

Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?

nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Red YT wtf circle around the black and white image of a fish with a big black eye. It's a predaceous chub.
January 11, 2026 at 11:34 PM