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Elisabeth Bik

@MicrobiomDigest

Science integrity consultant, PhD. #ImageForensics #sleuthmaxxing @METRICStanford affiliate / https://xitter.gq/t.co/2xH3WdXTFr / Patreon

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined October 2013
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Sholto David@addictedtoigno1Nov 8
Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube channel! PubMed has stopped indexing Scientific Reports (for the time being at least)... Is anyone surprised? youtu.be/HXcrOkRUkLY
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Fab Frank@LockedFabNov 5
On se souvient que le HCERES écrit à propos de l'IHU-Mi "il est également indispensable que l’IHU s’engage activement dans une démarche de demandes de correction de la science". 4 ans plus tard, rien n'est moins vrai. Un exemple parlant est décrit ci-dessous. 1/21
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@statnewsOct 30
STAT's Matthew Herper interviewed Elizabeth Holmes twice at the height of Theranos. Watching Nathan Fielder's new documentary reminded him of Holmes' unsettling ability to make people believe her, even when the facts tell a different story.

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@statnewsOct 21
Tyler Schultz was one of the Theranos insiders who blew the whistle on Elizabeth Holmes. Today, he has a stern warning for audiences of Nathan Fielder's 'You Can See Everything': Holmes is more dangerous than she appears.

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Ruslan Rust
@rust_ruslanOct 28
Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review. We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me. For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to read and evaluate science. TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵
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This AI acknowledgement takes the win. From this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2610.27918.
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PNASNews@PNASNewsOct 22
A study of articles suspected of being associated with “paper mills”in the field of molecular cancer shows the papers cite other paper mill papers to inflate their metrics. These practices can amplify unreliable findings and slow scientific progress. ow.ly/1izn51008lE
: Heat map showing yearly percentages of flagged papers across leading molecular cancer research journals (0.6 paper mill probability threshold).

ALT : Heat map showing yearly percentages of flagged papers across leading molecular cancer research journals (0.6 paper mill probability threshold).

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Costagliola@DgCostagliolaOct 23
Site de pubmed ce matin : quand la terminologie est décidée par executive order !
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Elisabeth Bik@MicrobiomDigestOct 23
Replying to @SciGuardians @ScienceMagazine
Eh, that is called journalistic reporting on facts?
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Gautam Kamath@thegautamkamathOct 23
How do you tell if authors fabricated their research results? Sometimes: they just tell you. Read, e.g., this caption carefully. Another banger of a post by my friend Nihar B. Shah on his blog, where he found at least 20+ such #ICLR2027 submissions: researchonresearch.blog/2026…
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Sholto David@addictedtoigno1Oct 21
Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.
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Rhea Liang@LiangRheaOct 22
I know this pic has been posted by others already, but... what on earth @RCPhysicians ?! 😱 #NoMoreManels #DiversityAndInclusion
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Fab Frank@LockedFabOct 17
79th retraction for the Marseille "retraction institute." The 66th for Didier Raoult. Lack of ethical approval.
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"Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use." nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use

Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use

Nature - The incident has prompted discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in scientific imagery.

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Journals have retracted four neural tube studies from researchers at The University of Maryland following an internal investigation that identified image duplications and other data integrity issues. By @claulopezneuro thetransmitter.org/academia/…
University probe leads to retraction of four neural tube studies

University probe leads to retraction of four neural tube studies

The University of Maryland conducted an internal investigation that identified image duplications and other data integrity issues in the studies, according to the retraction notices.

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This must be a very interesting seminar: "Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research Images" with the brilliant @MicrobiomDigest hosted by German Bioimaging Group gerbi-gmb.de/teams/ymia/
Young Microscopists and Image Analysts (YMIA)

Young Microscopists and Image Analysts (YMIA)

Mission Microscopy and image analysis are inseparable: understanding one is essential to making the most of the other. The Young Microscopists and Image Analysts (YMIA) network brings together...

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Pushmeet Kohli
@pushmeetOct 13
Most important, we want to get this model into as many scientists’ hands as we can. Today, we’re announcing that 10,000 scientists will get the highest usage tier access to Gemini 4 Argon in Google @antigravity free of charge for 6 months. Apply here: forms.gle/WvmBbPvRbpKG1BPn9
Interest form: Accelerate scientific workflows in Google Antigravity

Interest form: Accelerate scientific workflows in Google Antigravity

📣 Update (October 27, 2026): Since the program first started on Oct 13, 2026, we’ve received over 25,000 applications and granted upgraded access to the first 1,000 scientists. Because of this...

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OpenAI withdraws three preprints 1 day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/…
OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems

OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems

Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors.  On Oct. 6, Open…

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@CBSNewsOct 14
A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents and with whom she didn't get along, then tried to flee the country after police questioned her. cbsn.ws/4zxi9t1
Wyoming grad student allegedly poisoned her colleague, tried to flee U.S.: "Student's life is in...

Wyoming grad student allegedly poisoned her colleague, tried to flee U.S.: "Student's life is in...

Aili Wang, 32, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, where prosecutors allege she sought to return to China.

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As an Editor, in past ~6mo, we are receiving an avalanche of unsolicited review articles (“scoping” “systematic”, narrative, NOS) on topics and ?s NO ONE EVER has asked and clearly with heavy AI lift. Even the cover letters all read the same…alarming and sad. #publishing
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