Katrina Pickersgill

Head of Performance in the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group. Usually found with a dog at my feet. Views are my own.

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@WiseBartenderUK I placed a next day delivery order on 29/12 and it still hasn't arrived. Your website promised NYE delivery. I have emailed you about this too.

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@santanderukhelp hi, I still have a zero credit card in date. I understand the card has been discontinued. could you please confirm whether use of this card abroad will incur transaction fees.

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@SouthernRailUK hi could you contact me about an erroneous incomplete journey on my keygo account please

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@JoJoMamanBebe so disappointed by my experience in your Sevenoaks store today. Trying to exchange an item and staff unfriendly and borderline hostile. It costs nothing to be kind and what a way to treat a new mum with a baby with her

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@manypets_uk It won't let me send you a DM. I was promised on the 22nd May that I'd hear back within 7 working days but have heard nothing. Can you sort this out please?

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@manypets_uk I made a claim nearly a month ago and have heard nothing from you despite emailing twice. This is my first experience claiming with you and not a good one. Can you advise?

[Springer Nature @SpringerNature]

Yesterday the first iteration of the @STMAssoc Integrity hub’s papermill detection tool was launched. We were pleased to be involved in its development. In this Springboard Blog Tamara Welschot shares insights into the tool and why it is needed. Read more: https://t.co/T4yiJAQSTK

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

“Buy papers or lose your job”: the dilemma facing Thai academics. Universities’ practice of linking salary rises to publication record has fuelled research ethics violations, with early career academics struggling the most. @PolaLem reports
https://t.co/kMFLeCzpYw

[Research Information @researchinfo]

https://t.co/uOqK3cyUAB How do we improve peer review? David Stuart talks to @chrisgrafpub of @springernature and Coromoto Power Febres of @EmeraldGlobal

[Michael Willis @mwillispub]

"Knowledge about peer review, copyright, research data management, open research practices, academic integrity, and the like should not be left to publishers to pick up" - @dannykay68 in today's @scholarlykitchn https://t.co/70USMLEINJ

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

Can anyone recommend a great provider for Lean belt training? Ideally someone who offers e-learning as well as instructor led.

[nature @Nature]

“I am very worried,” says @SandraWachter5. “If we’re now in a situation where the experts are not able to determine what’s true or not, we lose the middleman that we desperately need to guide us through complicated topics” https://t.co/qC3QrCiy4B

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Some journal editors are publishing the majority of their papers in their own title, according to a study that raises questions about periodicals’ selection processes. @jgro_the reports
https://t.co/ykCbmVLAZV

[nature @Nature]

Almost 70% of researchers based in Europe say that they have been involved in projects in the past three years that listed authors who did not contribute sufficiently to the work, according to a major survey. https://t.co/bYGbo133wR

[Kim Eggleton @EggletonKim]

Conference proceedings are exceptionally vulnerable to publishing misconduct. Here we discuss why and how Publishers could work together to combat large scale publication fraud #PublicationEthics

[STM @STMAssoc]

🚀 Recently launched: module 1 in an instructional video series on Image Integrity in Scientific Publication — a collaborative product of the STM Working Group on Image Alteration & Duplication Detection.

Free to all — share widely >> https://t.co/hdmFj1jmNp #researchintegrity

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@IKEAUKSupport can you reply to my DM please

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

Looking forward to attending the @STMAssoc Research Integrity Masterclass tomorrow with my @SpringerNature colleagues!

[Katrina Pickersgill @KatPickersgill]

@CoolingsGC Hi - if I order a Christmas tree online will you contact me to arrange delivery? I don't want it to arrive too early! Thank you!