Roberto Buccione, PhD

#ResearchIntegrity office @SanRaffaeleMI announced. Supporting commitment to principles of reliability, honesty, respect & accountability in science, through training, oversight, counsel & implementation of RCR. Proud to be leading this effort! #RRI @protelli_gsd @grupposandonato

I am now on the cerulean platform. Please re-follow me there (@robbuc etc.) if interested so that I can quit this one. I'll try to reciprocate. 🙏

@fake_journals @SpringerNature ... because there is none perhaps?

"@SpringerNature journal has retracted over 200 papers since September" Our question is, why were these not picked up during the original peer review? buff.ly/4dMh31A

6 main figs and 5 supplementary figs .

@evocellbio But as a very visual species, we humans have always looked at photos as proof that something happened. Both general news as well as science articles have traditionally used photos as data. With AI, this "a photo or it did not happen" evidence is no longer trustworthy.

@NaudetFlorian Nice! Isn't Sir Brian a PhD in astrophysics or physics (among many other achievements)?

Scientist, guitar hero and a soul of meta researcher. Nice quote by Brian May.

@fake_journals @mohd_alamr And for these reasons, we actively discourage very early career researchers appearing as sole CAs on multi-Au papers and prefer a co-CA status with a more senior researcher to fulfil formal mandates.

@fake_journals @mohd_alamr Whether a very early stage researcher can practically and/or even formally bear that responsibility is very much dependent on local laws, regulations and precedent.

. Is it important to be the corresponding author? Following a recent post from @mohd_alamr, where the corresponding author was recommended to have an h-index >=3 (see buff.ly/4dDrUeq), we said the following: We have never understood why it is important to be corresponding author. To us, it is an undesirable position as the corresponding authors has to do all the work (e.g. put in all the authors details, submit the manuscript, coordinate the response etc.). In our discipline a PhD student is often the corresponding author, rather than a more senior member of the team. Why do people think it is important to get that asterixis next to their name? Do you think it matters who is the corresponding author (CA)?

@MicrobiomDigest @MDAndersonNews @NorthwesternU @SmutClyde @4BetterScience I cannot help but be skeptical when commercial publishers or their clubs repurpose themselves as protectors of the realm by appropriating initiatives that derive from community efforts to address issues that they have directly contributed to generating & enabling. But who knows?

@MDAndersonNews @NorthwesternU @SmutClyde @4BetterScience Next up: Deborah Kahn from #United2Act, a joint project from @STMAssoc and @C0PE. DK: We are not just going to talk about a problem, we are acting. This is all done by volunteers! We have very little funding. united2act.org #WCRI2024

Next up: Plenary D: "Addressing the challenge of paper mills through research and policy" Chair: Jennifer Byrne @JAByrneSci First talk: Paper mill submissions- identifying red flags for moving targets by Lisa Parker @Sydney_Uni #WCRI2024

@Daniel_AvOr @MicrobiomDigest @UniLeiden OK, probably we should reword as signifying that Unis with scandals breaking out are "not necessarily more toxic than others" 😀

@MacRoboTweet @MicrobiomDigest @UniLeiden I also think is the second. My concern is that since I graduated, year after year, one scandal breaks out. Which I think is 'good' because it means Leiden cares! But then, I have experienced toxic academic environments, equally or worse than in the private sector.

Leiden University @UniLeiden starts dismissal procedure for professor and their partner due to undesirable behavior and scientific misconduct, including obtaining research material from third parties without permit. Nineteen people have made statements. universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/04…

@Daniel_AvOr @MicrobiomDigest @UniLeiden I guess this is a typical knee-jerk reaction, i.e. to assume there is an (especially) toxic environment. It's a bit like when we sometimes assume that there is a culture of dishonesty in a given institution retracting a number of papers. Probably, it's the second option though.

@MicrobiomDigest @UniLeiden Leiden University seems to have many scandals in the last couple of years. I wonder if there is really a toxic environment or Leiden University is cleaning the house regardless the consequences. If this is a pattern across academia. What other Universities have similar issues?

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@fake_journals @RetractionWatch @CrossrefOrg Kudos for the spirit but basically not very useful. As you say these are absolute numbers not %. But at least 1 other important aspect is missing: how amenable, so to speak, the publishers are to considering retractions. Case in point: @MDPIOpenAccess as mentioned by @clementFFF

We are really pleased that @RetractionWatch and @CrossrefOrg have joined forces with one benefit being that the Retraction Watch database is now freely available. Our first analysis is to look at the top ten publishers by the number of retractions. Of course, these figures have to be read with caution, as they are absolute numbers. We plan to do some work to give a more relative/ratio presentation which will be more meaningful.

@MicrobiomDigest Yes, of course. In fact, I was rather disappointed to see that your efforts were not acknowledged in the @ScienceMagazine piece.

@MacRoboTweet Oh yes. I reported on this case several times.

Do you know anything about this @MicrobiomDigest? 🤔😉 science.org/content/articl…

@TranspariMED @senseaboutsci @hildabast @onthinktanks Yeah, the "truth". Sure. As in the "Great Barrington Declaration".

No position on this but it is definitely worth a read @senseaboutsci @hildabast @onthinktanks

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@TranspariMED @APHP @ansm @EMA_News @rkessler05 Actually, AFAIK the results have been posted on Jan 25th.

Remember when we were promised that the new European CTIS registry would end the scandal of invisible #clinicaltrials results? The first trial recently became due - and its results are MISSING. Sponsor: @APHP Regulator: @ansm euclinicaltrials.eu/app/#/view/202… @EMA_News @rkessler05

Members of #EUHA steering committee convened today at #UniSR. The EUHA groups top-tier European university hospitals renowned for excellence in healthcare, education, and research. Check out the EUHA website to know more 👉 hubs.ly/Q02mK6SQ0

Super-stoked for this 1st @MyUniSR @SanRaffaeleMI #CitizenScience project launched today at a @SanRaffaeleDRI #Drittiavoi event. The project was co-created w type 1 diabetes patients to collect their opinions & guide our research. @PatternEU @FedeliMaya @PiemontiL @PreteFederica