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Rui the Drunk
“we are talking about a dictator that systematically harassed students and other young researchers, created inhumane work conditions, forced them into scientific misconduct, systematically committed financial fraud with research money, and threatened and intimidated anyone that did not play by his rules.” – comment about Portugal’s most cited researcher
Schneider Shorts 19.06.2026 – Dinner table conversations
Schneider Shorts 19.06.2026 – how to pass on a fraudster, a sex pest meets his friends in Prague, new episode of “Sleuth and the Proper Channels”, with retractions in Portugal, teenagers failing to do their duties, and finally, a British man’s dinosaur handbag!
The Misadventures of Luca and Bart
“this is all very time consuming and damaging. It starts to look like a witch hunt.”” – Bart De Strooper
Schneider Shorts 12.06.2026 – Be humble and admit when we screw up
Schneider Shorts 12.06.2026 – a German fraud fighter by night and quack doctor by day, why journal editors don’t like sleuths, Chinese influencer exposes fraud in Nature, retractions for papermillers in Germany and Poland, and finally, lab leaks and their cover-ups
Burt! This bloke won’t Kaggle!
“This is unedifying but illustrative on so many levels of how quickly papermills have parasitised the Open Science paradigm and strip-mined all its resources. It also illustrates how quickly the incantatory Worship Words of Machine Learning shut down the critical faculties of reviewers when included in a manuscript, convincing them that its ludicrous claims are merely restatements of what they already know.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 5.06.2026 – Thanks for the important work that you do
Schneider Shorts 5.06.2026 – a cancer center in USA loses director, russia gains an Italian, Belgium lucky to have a russian, Spanish star and his lawyer celebrate victory, a British pensioner suffers a retraction, and so does a German professor, and finally, can we really trust vaccines from Wuhan?
Mind over Antibody
“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the carnage, perhaps it has only just started!” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 29.05.2026 – Everything can be achieved with extremely hard work
Schneider Shorts 29.052026 – German universities struggle with papermill prodigies, a Polish rector removed for sexual harassment, American antivax papers removed, Serbian Lieutenant Colonel fights retractions, confusing PubPeer moderation, and finally, how to cure Parkinson’s with graphene and cranberries.
Graphyne Chronicles
“Black crap formed in all cases. None of it was graphyne. None of it contained any detectable sp¹ carbons” – Valentin Rodionov
Schneider Shorts 22.05.2026 – See them all moving around in their artificial eggs
Schneider Shorts 22.95.2026 – an obituary for great Italian cancer researcher, Thermo Fisher being Unscientific, Polish patriots fight russian agents, a Thai papermiller reinvents himself, with corrections and concerns, with Korean magnetism in genetics, and finally, beware of Colossal eggs hatching!
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