Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬

It's great to see engagement with our commentary with @aidybarnett "The literature is an unsafe workplace" in @AccountRes1989 We suggest better ways of flagging erroneous papers to keep researchers safe when working in the literature ✅️♻️👍 search.app/?link=https%3A…

🚨 Webinar Alert! Join us June 26 for "AI in Biobanking" with Dr. Judita Kinkorová. Explore how AI is reshaping biobanks, research, and training the next gen of professionals. 🧬🤖 🗓 Register now: isber.org/event/ISBERWeb… #ISBER #Biobanking #AI #Webinar

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

"'Paper mills' are polluting the world of scientific literature with their false studies, researchers lament." ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/21741…

How about a podcast on research integrity featuring big names in the field (e.g., @MicrobiomDigest @ivanoransky) and, incidentally, yours truly? Go listen to open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4wye…

A group of research integrity experts has launched a series of guidelines on how to be an effective sleuth. chemistryworld.com/news/guideline…

"Citation issues cost these 20 journals their impact factors this year". Because the research community is unable to police the explosion of questionable journals we are reliant on the commercial operators. We need the same attention to paper mills etc. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/18/cla…

I had a great time delivering the workshop for postgraduate researchers and research staff today at the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering @uniofbrighton Where to Publish: Navigating Citation Databases and Journal-Level Metrics #bibliometrics

A group of research integrity experts has launched a series of guidelines on how to be an effective sleuth. My latest for @ChemistryWorld: chemistryworld.com/news/guideline… @JAByrneSci

#RecommendedRead: Byrne, J.A., Abalkina, A., Akinduro-Aje, O., Christopher, J., Eaton, S.E., Joshi, N., Scheffler, U., Wise, N.H., and Wright, J. (2024) 'A call for research to address the threat of paper mills', PLoS Biol 22(11): e3002931. Available at: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

👉 @PubPeerBot comment "... we submitted the following letter & @reappraisedblog checklist to @JAMA_current Internal Medicine, detailing numerous integrity concerns for this trial... there has been no public acknowledgement...of any of these concerns." pubpeer.com/publications/2…

A big thank to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum for featuring me in their alumni spotlight for my visualization and research integrity work. Their post is here: heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/young-research…

Our latest: Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… #badscience #papermills #opendata

Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI: Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries” science.org/content/articl… via @cathleenogrady

Join us on Wed May 28 2025, at 9:00 AM PST for a 2-hour online #ResearchIntegrity symposium as we build towards the #WCRI2026 conference in Vancouver. Videos will be made available after the event: vimeo.com/user175668074/… Programme and free registration: wcri2026.org/online-symposi…

International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me. I am also moving to Bsky too @SimonGandevia.bsky.social

🚨In a crisis, scientific data is at risk: wars, cyberattacks, disasters. What’s your plan to protect it? Join Prof. Stephanie Burton (U. of Pretoria), moderating a key webinar by IAP & @ISC 🗓 21 May |⏰12:00 UTC 🔗unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 📰Stay updated interacademies.org/news/e-bulletin

New paper: The Black Market of Publications in #Peru: Paper Mills and Authorship for Sale 🥳🥳 Authors: Joel Alhuay-Quispe and Victoria Yance-Yupari DOI: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/le… @cientificospe @joel_alway @vyancelibrarian @aloestcuz @cibertecaria

Shoddy study designs and false findings using a large public health dataset portend future risk of exploitation by AI and paper mills, a study and accompanying editorial conclude. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

The Black Market of Publications in #Peru: Paper Mills and Authorship for Sale - @joel_alway Yance-Yupari - 2025 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/le… @cientificospe

Would you contribute to an online digital voice bank?🖥️🗣️ 🤔 We're conducting a survey to understand public perceptions toward online voice biobanking. If you're aged 18 to 85, with or without a voice problem, we'd love to hear from you! Survey here 👉sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Q…