Our new #preprint is out! 
"Gulf of America or Mexico? Geopolitical renaming and its academic consequences":
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5379834
We explore how President 
Donald J. Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America risks turning settled geography into an “error of historical fact” - with complex implications for academic freedom, editorial policy, and research integrity.
A new study examined how well US university faculty across disciplines know about #PredatoryJournals. The strongest predictor of knowledge wasn’t career length or early-career status - it was the number of articles published in the past 5 years.
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2020
The authors conclude that professional development on this topic should target not only early-career, but also senior researchers - especially those who rarely publish in journals.
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This is an essential, but depressing, read if you are concerned about trends in scientific publishing and research fraud.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
We are fortunate in astrophysics not to have (as far as I know) as big a problem as some of the life sciences, but the perverse incentives operate here also.
There's also a good blog by the first author
https://reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a-do-or-die-moment-for-the-scientific-enterprise/
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Hidden prompt injections have breached the gates of scientific publishing—AI-assisted peer review is now a new battleground for research integrity. Who knew the next big plot twist in science would be written in invisible ink? Turns out, even science isn’t safe from a clever hack. And as a hacker, I can’t help but admire the ingenuity—though the risks are all too real.
a win for sleuths in the battle with #papermills but also an indication of how bad things can get when a dodgy editor has control
https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-plagued-problematic-papers-likely-paper-mills-pauses-submissions
#researchIntegrity #publishing
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Just deposited preprint reporting results of Delphi survey on attitudes to sanctions for serious research misconduct
https://zenodo.org/records/15774358
#fraud #researchIntegrity
I’ve just published a #PreprintReview of “Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings” on @prereview https://prereview.org/reviews/15772738
#UniversityRankings #ResearchIntegrity
#bibliometrics
3/ Nicola Adamson, Journal Development Editor
With a background in neuroscience, Nicola’s interest in #ResearchIntegrity led her to eLife, starting as an Editorial Assistant. Now, she has a key role in shaping our growth through tracking data trends and engaging with editors.
"Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants).
(...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...)
Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the authors."
Sadly easy to see that this emphasis on "gold-standard science" by the US administration is just the latest and more plausible-sounding version of "Do your own research" - a blatant attempt to use the inherent scepticism of genuine science as a weapon against science itself. No good can come from anti-science ideologues cherry-picking ideas from research integrity and taking them out of context.
https://www.cos.io/about/news/cos-statement-on-restoring-gold-standard-science-executive-order
13/ The MAHA report isn’t just an oversight—it’s a deliberate disregard for legitimate scientific inquiry. The scientific community is pushing back hard, as researchers and experts are publicly denying involvement in the studies cited. 
#ResearchIntegrity #FakeStudies #MAHAReport
In the research life cycle, data stewards are the unsung heroes who ensure datasets are organized, documented, and reusable. Without them, context is lost, metadata vanishes, and continuity breaks down, turning valuable research into an unsolvable puzzle.
Stewardship isn’t just good practice but, is essential for reproducibility, collaboration, and long-term impact.
You say #OpenData is good for science?
What if it feeds paper mills & AI to churn out 2 fake papers a day?
Science sounds the alarm: public datasets are becoming raw material for junk science.
Time to rethink our standards.
#OpenScience #AI #PaperMills #ResearchIntegrity https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zgawnij
Keynote on author identity from @alicemeadows this morning on the final day at our conference in Oslo.
The recent STM Association report on trusted identity recommends institutionally verified identity and using ORCID trust markers:
https://stm-assoc.org/new-stm-report-trusted-identity-in-academic-publishing/
