Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
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Elisabeth Bik
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The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals.
The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%.
For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
This hospital room decoration is a case for @elisabethbik.bsky.social
See my original blog post on the situation, featuring @sholtodavid.bsky.social's initial observation of something being afoot:
reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
El-Deiry doesn’t get why orgs don’t want him in a leadership position. His views on PubPeer, Elisabeth Bik, Sholto David, etc., are hardly mainstream. Perhaps Leidos didn’t think those views were worth ~$1 million a year.
@SciGuardians tweets that stuff for free.
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Just sent this to ThermoFisher via our local rep. Hope it’s ok to use your words, Magnus! They are spot-on
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It was great to have you @asms.org #ASMS2026 in San Diego! Your Plenary Lecture was a great way to end our conference. I hope you didn't mind talking about Science Integrity continuously during the USS Midway tour afterwards with our members. Thanks for discussing this important topic in science.
Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms.
This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.
Museum night Leiden and I’m looking at Jan Steen paintings thinking of @elisabethbik.bsky.social
This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
BWJones
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Eiko Fried
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They’re running short on rooms on the maternity ward so I upgraded to a private room to make space.
It brings me great pleasure to report that the included minibar has three different degrees of sparkling water (naturell, medium, spritzig) 💦🫧
