The saddest part of the already sad story at https://www.science.org/content/article/paleontologist-accused-faking-data-dino-killing-asteroid-paper

"After trying to discuss the matter with editors at Scientific Reports for nearly a year, During recently decided to make her suspicions public."

I have no idea whether During's complains are legitimate or not. But the part where she gets stonewalled by the journal rings terribly true.

#Introduction
Hi all, I am Elisabeth Bik, @microbiomdigest on Twitter. I am a Dutch/American microbiologist with a PhD from Utrecht University (not an MD).

In 2019 I started working for myself. I specialize in #ImageForensics, i.e. searching for image problems in published scientific papers, #ResearchIntegrity and #ScienceMisconduct.

Hope to meet and discuss problems in science papers with you here!

I mostly post #ImageForensics challenges or rant about #SciencePublishing.

#CRISPRpapers hashtag?

Let's start with detection of large CRISPR edits.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo7676

Why care:
Often first questions after #CRISPR editing is: What mutations do I have? Unfortunately, that can be hard to answer. Target sites are typically PCR amplified and sequenced, but that has a strong survivor bias. PCR favors some sequences, creates chimeras and fails if primer site is deleted. This paper presents a workflow to mitigate some of these issues and get a more complete picture.

Hey everyone. Just making sure everyone knows that direct messages on here are not end-to-end encrypted. They work more like a post, with visibility set to the person/people you tag.

This means an admin (like me), can read these by looking at the database/in backups.

I promise never to do this.

If that's not good enough (which is fine, obviously), please use something like signal for DMs

p.s. Twitter DMs are also not encrypted and anyone there can read them too.