Research Integrity and Training Adviser at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Interested in improving #ResearchIntegrity & #ResearchCulture with training, #TeamScience & promoting #OpenResearch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-7002
Andrew Porter
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We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open!
🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)
New #ResearchIntegrity blog for @cancerresearchuk.org on the refreshed UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity:
✔️More inclusive language 'research community' not just 'researchers'
🥼Focus move from misconduct to poor practice
💻Values-based AI approach
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/06/09/r...
2,700 letters sent last month warning staff that they are at risk of redundancy, with Nottingham senior management's goal to shed 608 academic posts, following the 350 professional services staff lost last year. 1/3
In my masters lab this happened with QPCR primers. The lab stock ran out and I checked the sequences before ordering which is when we found out it was incorrect.
This stuff happens all the time and relies so heavily on the first use being validated correctly and then correct copy pasting....
I received this email (shown here over four images).
Might look a little deeper at "Scopus Journals Services" in future posts, but just wanted to note the articles that are being offered for you to be an author so that (hopefully) they can be monitored as they progress through "the system".
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data.
@sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social
reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium
Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins.
forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...
Incredible to see our work out today in Cell: "Plasma signals of lung tumor promotion for molecular cancer prevention."
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
As a seminal guiding document, the Concordat to Support Research Integrity is hugely important. Andrew Porter guides us through recent changes...
With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider...
I am excited to share our review in Nature Reviews Genetics. Liquid biopsy are becoming better, smaller, faster and smarter. This next generation of #liquidbiopsy, #cfDNA multi-modal assays is unlocking applications in MCED, MRD, toxicity, functional and biological analysis of cancers, and beyond.
Andrew Porter
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
This happens if you do not stick to standardized gene names and abbreviate protein identifiers, folks! p16-INK4a and p16-ARC are two different proteins, encoded by genes CDKN2A and ARPC5. Yet scientists abbreviate the first to p16, and then order the antibodies to p16-ARC...
A 14-protein plasma signature identifies individuals benefiting from anti-IL-1β-based
lung cancer risk reduction and demonstrates how diverse tumor-promoting factors converge
on the induction of an al...
Once a code is added in a thesis or previous paper it may well get copied by default to the next paper from that group
Doesn't explains all the issues you've found, but it doesn't seem unlikely
As you say, it's very poor practice,
& it means we as readers can't tell what's actually happened
