I have sought retroactive approval from my IRB for my PubPeer experiment on human subjects. I should hear back shortly, although one member is notoriously late.

@BjoernBruecher Should be interesting. Certainly timely.

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@Spottingthespot @tandfonline I’ve noticed that Taylor and Francis is pretty aggressive at retracting papers from Dove Press. We will see whether they are as proactive on their own journals.

@Spottingthespot @tandfonline They are not chatty, but quite a few now send an acknowledgement. In this case, I’m hoping to avoid doing work that they will be doing themselves. I don’t see how he can remain EiC. He’s got lots of chemistry papers with no images. Those might be bad also.

@weldeiry is trying to have it both ways. He tweets things like this without saying whether he supports the announced cuts or opposes them. Still pining for the NCI Directorship offer?

@mumumouse2 @schrag_matthew @rob As we discussed during our calls, at some point we had to stop ourselves or we’d be sucked into looking at his papers forever.

@sciencey274807 Or like Jonathan Pruitt, he can write science fiction.

@skdh No doubt that will happen at some point, but I hope for your sake, not quite yet. In the future, Carl Sagan and you will be on a podcast together. I assume none of us here today will be around to watch it.

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Dear @PLOSONE "they're the same picture" All 4 plates are the same.

“At Frontiers, upholding quality and integrity is part of our commitment to the research community and is built by design into everything we do.” Also Frontiers: go away.