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Mark A. Hanson
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...
In case you are wondering where the conversation is happening, here are the current Altmetric trends of the Editorial
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Our Associate Editor @sarahjose.bsky.social will be attending the Evolution x Ecology 2026 conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social. She'd love to hear more about your research or have a chat about publishing in @plosone.org, @plosbiology.org, or our exciting new journal PLOS Ecosystems! #ExE2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is Trump administration levels of rejecting evidence that is clearly visible and unambiguous for all to see.
I'd have never expected a company dedicated to enabling evidence-based investigation to dig in their heels so hard on this BS. So much less damaging to say "Oh shiz, thanks. On it."
10. Anyway, very nice analysis and very interesting results. It's no surprise that LLM prose permeates the scholarly literature, but the exact patterns are fascinating. I encourage you to read the whole thing.
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"Across Europe, governments are reducing their reliance on US technology companies...
these actions are driven by concerns around political developments in the past few years, such as worries over data privacy and the decline in academic freedom in countries such as the United States"
📦 {sjrdata} #rstats package updated to include 2025 journal rankings
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This work nicely quantifies a major issue in our universities: "In higher education, administrative costs have risen much faster than instruction and research costs (4). MIT Faculty grew by only 9.2% between 1985 and 2023, while administrative staff grew by 189%." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
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Reese Richardson
Flo Débarre
PLOS One
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Carl T. Bergstrom
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions
of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
European governments are choosing European digital tools — and some universities and researchers are doing the same.
www.nature.com
Let's Streisand-effect these people.
Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops.
Read and share.
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)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Carl T. Bergstrom
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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Mark A. Hanson
Reese Richardson
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)
