❗Update on Plagiarism and Falsification in Scientific Publications

Today, I officially submitted requests for the retraction of articles to the editorial boards of the journals "Land Reclamation and Water Management" and "Bulletin of NUWM".

❗Key facts of misconduct:
🔹 Plagiarism: Unauthorized use of my original relief map (2015) without citation.
🔹 Falsification: Intentional removal (retouching) of the author’s stamp with coordinates and date-time on site photographs.
🔹 Duplication: Publication of identical material in 2021 and 2024.

Next steps:
In the event of attempts to covertly remove the articles without an official retraction notice, relevant complaints will be forwarded directly to @crossref and the international members of the editorial boards.

#OpenScience #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicMastodon #ScientificIntegrity #Hydrology #Geoscience #GIS #FediScience #Plagiarism #SvystunovaGully #COPE #Crossref #DataIntegrity #ImageManipulation #AcademicChatter #ResearchEthics #EarthScience #HigherEducation

Our new paper in Conservation Biology introduces #EcoKnowGames, a transdisciplinary project using digital games to bridge the gap between human behaviour and ecological modeling. 🎮🌿

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70308

Thanks to the authors: @bradduthie, Isabel Jones, Daksha Patel, and Nils Bunnefeld

#ConservationBiology #SeriousGames #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #Ecology #AcademicFedi #FediScience #SciComm #Gamification #Sustainability #Biodiversity #TechForGood

Only 2 years and 2 months between experiments and paper published; that's not too bad:

https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.31.4.046002

Dᴜᴀʟ-ʀᴇsᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ ᴍᴇɢᴀʜᴇʀᴛᴢ ᴏᴘᴛɪᴄᴀʟ ᴄᴏʜᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏᴍᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ ᴘʀᴏᴛᴏᴛʏᴘᴇ ʀᴇᴄᴛᴏsᴄᴏᴘᴇ ғᴏʀ ᴇɴʜᴀɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴠɪsᴜᴀʟɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏғ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀᴇᴄᴛᴀʟ ᴍɪᴄʀᴏsᴛʀᴜᴄᴛᴜʀᴇs

Burhan et. al

#fediscience #labtalk #medicalimaging #research

Be like Dr. Howell, nerds

https://liberapay.com/tarsius #magit

https://liberapay.com/fediscience #fediscience

https://liberapay.com/org-mode/ #orgmode

Find your favorite projects: https://liberapay.com/explore/

#humblebrag #rolemodel #justsayin

Finally managed to move my account from mastodon.social to the fediscience instance. This process was much more easy and straight forward then the last time I started trying (don't remember when exactly, probably a few years?).

Apparently a few followers were lost along the way, that's probably due to the approval feature?

#introduction #neuhier #Fediscience #migrating

Personally, the week in Munich at the #SnakemakeHackathon2026 was really neat. I met friends and acquaintances, took the time to meet an old friend of mine not working in academia any more and the wonderful @FrankSonntag from our #FediScience association.

And now, tired, on my way back. Thanks to the railway service in Germany, I enjoy some boredom and the opportunity to do something else. Even reading a disc world novel (which is not "novel" any more) does not help.

#lifeis2short

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2022.10.004

#icanhazpdf #fediscience