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I'm an Amsterdam-based epidemiologist interested in #ResearchIntegrity and #OpenScience, among many other things. More on my professional background can be found on bit.ly/2NE347B

Researchers who use generative AI to write papers are publishing more cen.acs.org/policy/publish… via @cenmag

Around $1,000 can buy you first authorship on a dodgy scientific paper cen.acs.org/policy/publish… via @cenmag

Learn about the history of #WCRI and what we will be discussing in Vancouver. "Researchers already use AI—it’s time to agree on how to use it responsibly" #AI #GenAI researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

6 days to go until the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity 2026 opening! 📅 May 4 | 1:30–3:00 PM 📍 Symposium: Collaborative and Global Approaches to Research Integrity: Bridging Disciplines, Borders, and Perspectives

Plenary Series Preview #3 Who safeguards research integrity in the age of AI? Einstein Foundation Award winners share how open science, post-publication peer review, and image forensics are strengthening accountability and transparency worldwide. 🗓 May 5, 1:30–3:00 PM

Plenary Series Preview #4 Open science or research security? Exploring the balance between integrity, geopolitics, and global collaboration. 🗓 May 6, 2026, 8:30 - 10:00 AM

"Is the scientific literature a database or a library?" Interesting 'food for thought' and recommended reading. bit.ly/3OIhcwe

Plenary Series Preview #2 How is GenAI reshaping research integrity across global contexts? Chair: Prof. David Moher Join leading scholars exploring global ethics, African wisdom, and shared responsibility in the age of AI. 🗓 May 5, 8:30–10:00 AM

Plenary Series Preview #1 We open WCRI 2026 with a critical question: How are paper mills misusing AI? Chair: Prof. Jennifer Byrne Join leading experts from research, publishing, and AI for this opening plenary. 🗓 May 4, 8:30–10:00 AM #WCRI2026 #ResearchIntegrity

On 24 April 13:45 Charlotte Rulkens will defend her PhD thesis that contains an example of replication study in Art History. Download thesis: bit.ly/3QOyA32 Information on thesis defence and stream link: bit.ly/4clQz9H

Practical guidance for prompt engineering for use of ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot in medicine and medical research, emphasizing the need for careful fact-checking and expert review. bit.ly/488exCPbit.ly/…

Join us on May 3 for a series of workshops. Workshop 7 - Publication Integrity & Institutional Investigations: Setting the record straight 🕘 1:00 PM–4:00 PM May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 9th #WCRI

Opening Ceremony of 9th World Conference on Research Integrity Bayshore Grand Ballroom | 🕓 May 3, 4:30–5:30pm The ceremony opens the conference with First Nations cultural elements and concludes with a reception for attendees to connect.

Join us on May 3 for a series of workshops. Workshop 6: Investigating with Integrity: A Hands-on Workshop on Research Misconduct 🕘 1:00 PM–4:00 PM May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 9th #WCRI

The correct link to the pay-walled version is this: lnkd.in/evMH4vuN

We made a 9-item classification for "citation iregularities" that undermine the fairness and reliability of scholarly communication from the many different terms we found in the literature. bit.ly/4v9wL0F

Hope to see you at the Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review on June 5, 2026, which is organized in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Register at: meta-eindhoven.github.io/events/

Unfortunately the publication is behind a paywall. If you have no access, you can find your personal copy here: bit.ly/4maB1su

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project #WCRI2026 doi.org/10.1038/d41586…