Bloodhound code sniffs out copied-and-pasted numerical data – Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/

#ResearchIntegrity #OpenData #ScientificComputing #DataEthics #AcademicMastodon

Social Science Research: A Crisis of Replicability

A large study found about 50% of social science research findings are hard to repeat. Data sharing could help fix this problem.

#SocialScience, #ResearchIntegrity, #OpenScience, #AcademicCrisis, #Reproducibility

https://newsletter.tf/social-science-research-replication-crisis-study/

A major study tested nearly 3,900 social science papers and found that about half of the results could not be repeated by other researchers. This is a big problem for trusting science.

#SocialScience, #ResearchIntegrity, #OpenScience, #AcademicCrisis, #Reproducibility
https://newsletter.tf/social-science-research-replication-crisis-study/

Reproducibility Woes Plague Economics and Political Science

New studies show many findings in economics and political science cannot be repeated by other researchers. This affects trust in published research.

#ReplicationCrisis, #SocialScience, #Economics, #PoliticalScience, #ResearchIntegrity

https://newsletter.tf/economics-political-science-studies-hard-to-repeat/

Only about half of published papers in social sciences, including economics and political science, can be independently repeated by other researchers. This is a big problem for science.

#ReplicationCrisis, #SocialScience, #Economics, #PoliticalScience, #ResearchIntegrity
https://newsletter.tf/economics-political-science-studies-hard-to-repeat/

Our new 📄 in Current Alzheimer Research looks at a strange, and worrying, phenomenon in scientific writing: tortured phrases. Instead of blood-brain barrier, some papers use bizarre alternatives like blood-brain obstruction or blood-cerebrum boundary.

 https://doi.org/10.2174/0115672050460224260206052444

These are not just language errors, they can signal deeper issues such as weak #PeerReview or even #PaperMills.

#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing

This week, in one of my communications classes, we're discussing quantitative and qualitative research design.

As part of our work, we are to watch any two videos from this YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLswmIrqGbCe_jztdLmo-6AjklyZi13Qz2&si=Q-zwmYh1iidXOAAy

These are all TED talks that can provide insight on research design in some way,

I chose this video as one of them: https://youtu.be/2f92jeAYuD4

The title is "The Radical Truths of Transgender Studies." I figured it was a good choice for #TDOV

The presenter, Levi Hord, points out that, since the 19th century, what we call "transgender" has been studied by researchers. The first name for this discipline was "sexology," and the #transgender people were being studied objectively, as specimens. So the thought leaders were cisgender people, mostly men. Which means that transgender experience was being written about by people who didn't actually have any.

Considering that this has been studied for around 150 years, it's disingenuous to question whether transgender people exist. The fact that people, especially those who fund #ResearchIntegrity
question the *existence* of transgender means that research cannot advance at the same pace as research in other areas.

Imagine having to prove that blood exists to get funding for leukemia research.

Citation counting "is almost meaningless". For sure it is meaningless when there a citation mills in action.

#AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/30/fake-articles-plagiarism-preprints-arxiv-ssrn-citation-network/

AI TRAINING PROPOSAL FOR PROJECT SUPERVISORS

https://solomonaganai.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/ai-training-proposal-for-project-supervisors/

AI in Higher Education: From Skepticism to Confidence

https://solomonaganai.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/ai-in-higher-education-from-skepticism-to-confidence/