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Elisabeth Bik

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Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD. Previously at Stanford University and (gasp!) uBiome. NL. USA. #ImageForensics.
@MicrobiomDigest on the bird app.
Blog: '>ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: www.patreon.com/elisabethbik

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️'s avatar Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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New piece from forensic scientist (not sure that's her title, but it's how I think of her work) @elisabethbik.bsky.social about the importance of publish negative results 🧪🧫🦠

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud, Ph.D 🧬🧫🧪's avatar Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud, Ph.D 🧬🧫🧪 @damkyanomega.bsky.social
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Très heureux pour @elisabethbik.bsky.social de voir que les poursuites lancées par Chabrière, Raoult et l'IHU il y a trois ans n'ont rien données. Affaire classée. Ça fait pshiit comme dirait l'autre.

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Very good! Awards have already been handed out, but I will give you the Festive Emoji: 🎉

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Mark Hanson's avatar Mark Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that @elisabethbik.bsky.social is on bluesky, and still doing great work.

Also hosting fun "spot the difference" challenges🙂

Although the difficulty rating on this one is basically god tier: even she missed it at first. How are we plebeians supposed find it!? 🤣
#SciPub #AcademicSky

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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An interesting paper. 15 authors. 15 affiliations. Mice from Shanghai, but approval from German animal board. And then there are some image issues....
pubpeer.com/publications...

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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#ImageForensics
Can you spot the overlap?
a) through e) are each displaying cells treated with different conditions.
(I missed this one when I found another problem in this paper in 2015).

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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That is right! Congrats with winning an Emoji Award: 🏅

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Correct! You won an Emoji Award. Congrats: 🏅

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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#ImageForensics

Two of these panels unexpectedly overlap.

Note that second and fourth rows are higher magnifications of the first and third row, respectively, so those are expected to share the region in the small black box.

But there is *unexpected* overlap between 2 panels. Which ones?

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Ha!
Only one good answer this round (saying "I agree with [previous person] does not count, sorry), so congrats to Sarah LR @kerendith.bsky.social for winning this round!

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Correct! You won the first Emoji Award of this round: 🏅 Congratulations.

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Happy New Year to you all!

I will start off with a nice #ImageForensics.
Can you spot the two overlapping panels? Which ones?

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Ah that is so simple that I had not thought of that 🤣 Thank you!

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Tomorrow, 4 pm PT on Christmas Day, at KZSU Stanford Radio, DJ Jon Cousins will do a read-along of ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’.
Snuggle down with your radio, a cookie, and a mug of nog as we transport you back to Who-ville.
kzsu.stanford.edu

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Hi @wjst.de - I would love to read your blog post 'CORRECTIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED' but I need to fill out a password that I don't see. Am I doing something wrong? Is it my night anti-blue filter?

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Thank you so much, Ben, for inviting me to your podcast. Great questions, and I loved talking to you.

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Dan Savage 's avatar Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social
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Twitter falling apart for other people tonight? Or just me?

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Not working for me either. Glad that I can go to BlueSky to check hahaha

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Dr. Laci Brock 's avatar Dr. Laci Brock @stellerarts.bsky.social
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Just finished some new moon ornaments for my tree! Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Triton, and the Moon. Hope you like them! 🐡🔭🧪

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Willem van Schaik's avatar Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social
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New, fairly short, paper by the group just got published. Funded by, and in collaboration with, DSTL.

'Differences in the gut microbiota between Gurkhas and soldiers of British origin'

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Ran Blekhman's avatar Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social
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More diverse microbiome communities provide protection against infection, but how?

New paper in Science shows this is achieved by nutrient blocking -- diverse communities will consume all the nutrients an incoming pathogen needs to colonize

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Emily Rollinson's avatar Emily Rollinson @ejrollinson.bsky.social
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My department at ESU is hiring a tenure-track assistant/associate professor in animal physiology to start Fall 2024 - please share! Review begins 1/31/2024. esu.csod.com/ats/careersi...

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Here it seemed they were all studying the same, very specific topic. They might be citing the same papers and perhaps serve as a citation vessel. But they might be part of a much bigger mill, all with the time line image and some random topic plus AI

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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That is correct! Congratulations on winning the third and last Emoji Award. 🏅

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There are more similarities, but you won the second Emoji Award. Congrats! 🏅

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Elisabeth Bik's avatar Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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Yay! Also note tops of lanes 4 and 6. Congratulations! 🏅

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I do not know enough about machine learning to analyze these papers. But some things to look at: Are there any shared authors? or new set of authors for each of these papers? Are they all about coal-mine 'bumps'? If no to the first q and yes to the second, that is suspicious.

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