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Chadha Ftiriche

@chadhaftirich.bsky.social

Research Misconduct: The 'FFP' Violations
Fabrication: Making up data or results.

Falsification: Manipulating data or removing unfavorable results.

Plagiarism: Using others' work without acknowledgment.

Ethics are essential for reliable science! 🔬📊
#ResearchEthics #Science #ResearchMisconduct

October 29, 2026 at 10:59 AM

Scott Macintyre

@bibiothecarius.bsky.social

Artificial intelligence (AI) proposals to counter AI cheating by students in non-invigilated assessment: doi.org/10.1080/0260...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #Ethics #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicIntegrity #Examinations #Cheating #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Artificial intelligence (AI) proposals to counter AI cheating by students in non-invigilated assessment

Since ChatGPT3′s chatbot interface appeared in November 2022, AI cheating has re-incarnated a challenge for academia. It is accentuated in non-invigilated contexts during term as projects, essays a...

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November 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM

NotAnInfluencer

@scigeek69.bsky.social

Another day, another Dan Ariely journal article retraction @chronicle.com #researchmisconduct

September 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM

polecopub

@polecopub.bsky.social

A very insightful post on how #researchmisconduct inquiries happen (and diverge). IMHO, the only oddities in Arday's case are his weird extra-academic claims (charities, sport...) and the fact that he resigned so quickly. #researchintegrity #peerreview

James Smoliga, DVM, PhD @jsmoliga.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Jason Arday case may seem highly unusual.

But the reality is it follows a typical pattern found within academic cases of plagiarism and research misconduct.

Check out my new piece, which provides further context to Arday’s case.
academiclife.substack.com/p/how-do-aca...

How Do Academics Actually Get Caught Cheating?

How plagiarism and research misconduct are actually discovered and why scrutiny sometimes expands

academiclife.substack.com

August 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM

Open Pharma

@openpharma.bsky.social

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Weekly digest: ISMPP Annual 2025, readable research content and identifying misconduct

This week, we signpost the Open Pharma activities at the 2025 Annual Meeting of ISMPP and reflect on our workshop at the Researcher to Reader Conference in February. We also read about how journal edi...

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May 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM

Nicola Low

@nicolamlow.bsky.social

🧪 #ResearchMisconduct
„The abstract of a paper on analgesia in women giving birth contained the sentence: “One hundred sixty full-term protozoa are included in this work.”“

Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Feb 20

A Retraction Watch story left one reader intrigued. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” said John Loadsman of the University of Sydney, an anesthesiologist and journal editor. “I thought, I’ve got to have a look.”

Publisher flags more than 120 papers three and a half years after learning of problems

What started as a small editorial conundrum several years ago has turned into an expression of concern for dozens of papers in a medical journal, thanks to the work of an Australian physician and s…

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February 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM

NotAnInfluencer

@scigeek69.bsky.social

This time, it's not a western blot: "$15 million to settle charges that researchers there slipped false data and images into research grant applications" #researchmisconduct #RadminSky www.radicalcompliance.com/2025/12/17/d...

Dana-Farber’s $15M False Claims Case - Radical Compliance

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is paying $15 million to end False Claims Act charges that researchers used manipulated images for grant money.

www.radicalcompliance.com

December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM

renebekkers

@renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

What could #metascience learn from #criminology for the prevention of #researchmisconduct and #researchintegrity violations? In a seminar at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), I discussed with researchers in […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Graph (triangle) titled Offense Gravity — Incentives in Academia illustrating a downward slope from Ideal Science in green on the left (Responsible Research Practices) through Questionable research practices (QRP, e.g., harking, p-hacking) in a grey middle zone, to Research Misconduct (Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism) on the right in red. A green ball rolls down from the top left to become a grey ball in the middle, and a red not permitted circle on the bottom right.

January 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM

Satoshi Tanaka

@sato51643335.bsky.social

Based on the outcomes of our project, we have created a pamphlet designed to be used in research laboratories. #researchintegrity #researchclimate #researchmisconduct