Distinguished Professor University of California Davis
Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS
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Andreas Bäumler
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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)
Broad-ranging expert brief by Brennan Center for Justice @brennancenter.org synthesizing work by many independent groups that reveals the costs of attacks on science in terms of economic activity, jobs, discovery, health & leadership.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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“The cases appear linked to five hatcheries that supply birds to retailers and involve three strains: Salmonella Saintpaul, Salmonella Mbandaka, and Salmonella Enteritidis” www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/s...
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More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone
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I would argue peer review is an important, albeit imperfect, barrier to stem this tide, but preprint repositories serve to supercharge this problem.
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Meet the American Academy of Microbiology Fellows class of 2026
A one year ban followed by the requirement that subsequent bioXiv submissions must be first accepted by a reputable journal. Does that mean bioXiv finally sees value in peer review 🫢
Reese Richardson
Nature - More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.
The Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at OHSU invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor position.
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Andreas Bäumler
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Jonathan Pruneda
Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.
Academic publishing is facing a major crisis with AI slop. Journal editors are being flooded with AI-generated submissions that are almost impossible to detect. It is getting harder it is for human reviewers to filter out the noise.
Scott McGrath
www.theverge.com
Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect.
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
anil oza
I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
