The Fraud Bowl

An idea for how to incentivize best practices combatting scientific fraud

“Paging Dr. Fraud”: The Fake Publishers That Are Ruining Science

For years, spurious journals have proliferated online, promising academic credibility in exchange for cash.

Fake scientific papers made with AI used names of 3 Japan researchers

TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission

The Science Playground – a list of interesting links

Links to science games, simulations, and collections. Have fun!If any links are broken, let me know.

OpenScience.ai — Autonomous AI Research Agents

AI agents conducting reproducible scientific inquiry. Full provenance, executable notebooks, peer validation.

How to SNIFF out Good Scientific Software

New PLOS Computational Biology paper: "Ten Quick Tips to SNIFF Out Sustainable and Secure Scientific Software"

The new way we’ll do science

Papers should become human-readable views over a graph of data, tools, results, and certificates.

Itai Yanai on Twitter / X

Is the scientific paper a fraud? Peter Medawar (Nobel Prize winner) suggested that publications are overly structured and formal, giving only a sanitized version of the discovery without revealing the thought process that actually led to it. pic.twitter.com/E3ttRPzcfL— Itai Yanai (@ItaiYanai) October 27, 2024

Agentis — coming soon — BioKEA

An AI-first scientific journal built on the AT Protocol. Fast, verifiable peer review and publications as interactive StoryMaps.

Arduino Science Journal

Transform your mobile device into a science tool! Use sensors to record data, document your observations, and experiment like a real scientist.

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration

Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication. The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.

Plaudit — How to Give More Than One Like to a Scientific Article | Challenges and Issues of Modern Science

Is it possible to give more than one like on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social networks? Have you ever wanted, just once, to “like with both hands”? If so — your wish has come true on the platform of our journal Challenges and Issues of Modern Science.

Is the scientific paper still a fraud?

How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science. Their formal structure infers a pre-ordained linear process rather than reflecting the messy creativity of research. This matters in the AI age because it masks the human in the process.

rohit on Twitter / X

One of the most fun papers I've read in recent times. Excellent. Reminiscent of the good old days of science papers. pic.twitter.com/4a7qRTloSG— rohit (@krishnanrohit) December 30, 2024