Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing.
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Scientific sleuths come in from the cold
Research integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic
Laura Luebbert, PhD on Twitter / X
MVS has dismissed our findings as "typographical errors and minor oversights," accused Lior and me of being "unprofessional," and called any allegations "totally bizarre." For context, I am showing four examples of duplicated data as described in our arxiv manuscript (Fig 3 & 4). pic.twitter.com/ZuTX6ivBGM— Laura Luebbert, PhD (@NeuroLuebbert) July 11, 2024
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AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
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Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers
A unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
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Elisabeth Bik on Twitter / X
There are clearly some problems in Figure S6b, but dr. S. is "deeply skeptical" and claims that these concerns are "unfounded".Look, you might have won the Nobel prize, but that does not mean you are correct here. I stand by my concerns. https://t.co/l47YC65nZp pic.twitter.com/Gy6xqomXvr— Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) June 16, 2024
When Nature Calls: The Enshittification of Science and Its Enablers
Proof-of-work papers, policy laundering, and the collapse of self-correction
Working notes on the role of vision papers in basic science
Many of the papers I most admire are vision papers1. Rather than abstractly define what a vision paper is, here's a list of a few examples of such papers, to convey the gist:
When should a paper be corrected? Last December, @elisabethbik.bsky.social and other sleuths began flagging papers by a prominent bioengineer, Ali Khademhosseini. They found over 80 with image issues. Khademhosseini and his colleagues have issued over 40 corrections, but avoided retractions.
Science sleuths raise concerns about scores of bioengineering papers
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