http://metascienceobservatory.org/https://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mv446erim22aTHREAD OF IMAGE DUPLICATION FINDINGS (will be continually updated) #1 Nature Medicine 18, 892–901 (2012). 10.1038/nm.2772 The cells in Fig. 1 are described as from a human patient, while the matching cells in Fig. 6 are described as from a tumor grown subcutaneously in a mouse from human cells.09 Sep 2026 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv446erim22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mv42g6nxxc2jWe ran our simple image duplication detection system on 1,000 papers. The papers 1. have 1 author who has a image-related retraction according to @retractionwatch.com, 2. are not retracted, and 3. have no image-related @pubpeer.com comments. We use AI to screen findings & suppress false pos.. (1/3)09 Sep 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv42g6nxxc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mukcj6vltk2gWhat do people think? Should scientists who release old raw data (ie from papers more than 2 years old) get preferential treatment by funders? Releasing datasets is especially valuable in the age of AI - agentic AI systems can be sleuths at scale, flagging things for more detailed human review. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukcj6vltk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3muhj4kakzk2qGreat news! You can now pip install our fetchPDF library! pip install fetchpdf it's the world's best command-line PDF-getter, using completely legal channels!01 Sep 2026 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhj4kakzk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3muhi6r43fk2gAnother Dan Ariely paper contains tampered (fraudulent) data, and it looks like Ariely was responsible (the file says "last saved by Ariely" and the only other author, Wertenbroch, claims he never had access to the dataset) datacolada.org/138 [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhi6r43fk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mu3jpc4e3c2fThree different AIs were asked to predict how AI might impact science. This was one of the scenarios they arrived at - "The Slop Singularity". (ai-will-do-science.surge.sh) We don't think it will get quite so bad, but something along these lines is happening. AI will help in the end.27 Aug 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3jpc4e3c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mu3el3efrk2cAI for metascience is booming, and @lukaswallrich.bsky.social and the huge volunteer team at the superb @forrt.bsky.social project are hosting this very timely online conference. Metascience Observatory Founder @delton.bsky.social will be speaking Sept 28-30 along w/ 33 other speakers. Link 👇27 Aug 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3el3efrk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mttppjttys2lThe fraud problem in science, summarized. This is part of our motivation for building the Forensic Metascience Agent, a AI agent orchestration system designed to enable a thorough audit of a scientific paper, including images, tables/data, statistics, and supplementary files. (🔗 w/ more info below)24 Aug 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttppjttys2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mttpfvu6622lWe believe PubPeer can re-invigorate scientific self-criticism. “PubPeer exists & thrives precisely because of a frustration, shared by its initiators and its users, at the failures of traditional scientific institutions to administer well-organised scepticism.”-Wytske et al. https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/nh3eg_v124 Aug 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttpfvu6622lhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3msgx5bkw7k2rThe NIH recently released a RFI seeking public input on new ways to measure and reward scientific impact. The agency is evaluating whether traditional metrics such as publication counts and citation indexes adequately capture the value of biomedical research. => https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-087.html?mc_cid=999b760ca0&mc_eid=62ce76352506 Aug 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgx5bkw7k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3msdrkarcd223Yesterday we published a detailed report about what we've learned so far from our replication database about reproducibility and correlates of reproducibility. => https://open.substack.com/pub/moreisdifferent/p/what-weve-learned-so-far-at-the-metascience05 Aug 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdrkarcd223https://bsky.app/profile/metascienceobs.bsky.social/post/3mdlngud7ds2gRead our first newsletter on Substack: https://metascienceobservatory.substack.com/p/metascience-observatory-newsletter You can subscribe on Substack or on our conventional mailing list: metascienceobservatory.eo.page/kdntv29 Jan 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:ip77rghtwbc2n2la34oeasvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdlngud7ds2g