Matt Keevil

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[Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2]

Stealthy correction by Elsevier. I can't find a published correction/corrigendum for the change shown in the image. I and Thomas Kesteman flagged this paper last year, pointing out issues in Fig 1 and Fig 2 https://t.co/Q9ltillyaH. The journal never communicated with us. To my surprise, earlier this week I saw that both figures are "new" in the current version https://t.co/l4N12KO206.

It is BAD not just because of the lack of a published correction note. Hear me out: When a correction is published, it stays as a appendix to the original, and the whatever was corrected stay as they are. People can read the justification for correction, and compare the original to the corrected. In this case, the new images were simply swapped in, and the original images are nowhere to be found, except in the screenshots that we conserved.

This is _____ laundering

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I think there may be some real drawbacks to turning “the media” into “whoever among you can get the most attention at any given time.”

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@stephenfgordon People already pointed out squirrels, so I will just add that it’s called a drey.

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@EmmaMci Our species at risk legislation has been undermined and watered down to conservation theatre that with no accountability for actual outcomes. A lot of money is spent on measures that have no chance of success.

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

Redside dace have become a poster child for the fight against Doug Ford’s Highway 413 project. A new federal strategy for the endangered minnow's recovery isn’t likely to tip the scales in the fish’s favour, according to biologist @kpeiman1 https://t.co/4ZOa2oOW7c

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@CMacQuar Not that we should be taking French pronunciation cues from the British…

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@CMacQuar I don’t normally comment but to me it’s like jalapeño vs. gelapino: one way is just wrong. “Nitch” never occurred to me until I started hearing Americans say it at conferences when I was in grad school.

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@sportswithjohn I loved The Universe podcast you did with @AstroKatie, even (especially?) the @Policygenius ads.

[Stephen Gordon @stephenfgordon]

Political hacks are trained to think that an unpopular idea is a bad one, because they are only interested in obtaining power, not governing.

The rest of us are allowed - obliged! - to evaluate ideas on their own merits.

[The Orianne Society @OrianneSociety]

Our latest Photo of the Month captures the surreal beauty of an Inyo Mountains Salamander in its unique habitat, high above the desert floor. A breathtaking moment from the field by Nick Van Gilder.

See the full image and connect with Nick here: https://t.co/FabzXCDG2R

[Federico Riva (@rivaecology.bsky.social) @rivaecology]

Our Grime review "Incorporating effects of habitat patches into species distribution models" is out in @JEcology
https://t.co/RifdvlftGg. w/ Antoine Guisan @ecospat_ch Lenore Fahrig @GLELCarleton @R_you_cereal @AleMoranOrdonez @CarmenGaln63377 et al. 1/n

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

I respectfully disagree. I think what is currently "democratizing" science much more than "high impact" journals is @PubPeer. So let's take a tour of the @PubPeer comments for some of this author's papers in "high impact" journals: 1/

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@aufgehenderRest @karst_justine https://t.co/GtjS7UXHv9

https://t.co/uGfepyNxuA

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Could some tell me what kind of bug this is? I capture them in photos at night sometimes and they move so fast that you wouldn’t even notice them if you didn’t know to slow down the live shot and look closer. They’re very strange looking and they leave a little streak in the air.

[Allison Binley @AllisonBinley]

Collecting #biodiversity data is a cornerstone of #conservation research, but how do we know when we have enough to act? Check out our new paper in @MethodsEcolEvol

[Spotting @Spottingthespot]

WTF did I just witness. The EIC of the @ElsevierConnect journal 'the journal of cleaner production' just removed her name as handling editor from a paper to avoid a serious conflict of interest. No correction issued. This is borderline #fraud. Journal known for #papermill crap

[Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D @SarahMackAttack]

Alright scientists your time has come.

What's the coolest shit a 7 year old can look at under a dissection scope?

My godson asked for "cool stuff for his microsope", and my man likes bugs. Gonna put together an observation kit. WHAT should go in that kit?

[CBC Olympics @CBCOlympics]

Who?

Them 🇨🇦

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

Oh my

[Matt Keevil @KeevilMatthew]

@Helenreflects I think that is part of it for cancers in general but not specific to reproductive organs because I think cells in those experience the same organism level fitness as other tissues.