A good retraction by @frontiersin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy of Neurotrope/Synaptogenix / Thomas Jefferson U paper. The #$SNPX president/CSO called me a "sir", claimed figures were just 'illustrative examples', the senior author then dropped 200 hard-to-open, un-annotated 'lsm' files - fun times. #ImageForensics

Here is your #ImageForensics challenge of today. Nine panels, different time points and different treatments. None of the panels should overlap or look the same. But.... can you spot the unexpected overlap? This one is easy!

Can you spot the overlapping panels? Tell me which ones! The first three correct answers (either by illustration or a good description) will win that shiny Emoji Award. It will look so good on your resume! #ImageForensics

Fourth retraction for Surgery Professor at @lunduniversity.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy : Let's hope he is better at surgery than at electron microscopy. pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics #ScientificPublishing

I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy are trying hard to be taken seriously. But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range. #ImageForensics #ScientificPublishing /

How many duplicated panels in a scientific paper are still addressable with a correction? How many “oopsies” can a research group make before an Expression of Concern or retraction? This one (anonymized) has 5 duplications in one figure and was corrected. Is that a good outcome? #ImageForensics

Four panels - but two overlap. Can you spot them? #ImageForensics

One of these things is not like the other.... #ImageForensics