A study of articles suspected of being associated with “paper mills”in the field of molecular cancer shows the papers cite other paper mill papers to inflate their metrics. These practices can amplify unreliable findings and slow scientific progress. https://t.co/CFC9ytCkoQ
@LocasaleLab Replace editors with Ai agents. This problem is too serious to ignore. We can actually find out who such editors are by looking for authors who repeated publish in these journals (given how unlikely it is to get so many papers in those top journals no matter who/where a PI is
Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.
@NCIDirector@NIH A lot of papers in high visibility journals are simply resources. So NIH should also enforce that the raw and processed data be made available
@geochurch Safety is necessary but not sufficient (for example injection of water is very safe). Does it work? How did you assess reversal of ageing? What is the mechanism of action for this drug?
Do you need an intro to analyzing (prote)omics data?
This series of lectures may be helpful.
We aimed to make them short & accessible.
Enjoy watching & learning !
https://t.co/gTHe1J19Jq
@thsottiaux
Feature request for Codex: Visual debugging by conversation. Ipoint at parts of a GUI or scientific figure while verbally explaining what needs fixing. Codex should interpret the screen recording, map my feedback to code changes.