Mark Hooper
Founder of Tricky Goose Training (https://www.trickygoose.training), COPE Council Member, Philosophy PhD. #researchintegrity #openscience #academicintegrity #philosophy
- Reposted by Mark HooperLess is more. This aphorism is constantly on my mind. The scientific publication system is under tremendous strain, the last thing it needs is a massive dump of LLM generated/aided papers. If you love science, then show it some love. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Responsible-Research-Assessment-Jeopardy cracks me up. We are losing, but possibly laughing the most. #AIMOS2025
- Discussions at #AIMOS2025 re: financial conflicts of expert witnesses, reminds me of this editorial from 1882 (!): “…the saying of a well-known judge that liars might be divided into three classes - liars, great liars, and scientific-witnesses - recommends itself to many.” [The Times, 4 April]
- Reposted by Mark HooperWe will have workshops, discussion groups, hackathons, lightning talks, and mini-notes. Thanks to the sponsors, @sydney.edu.au, @ardc.edu.au, @proofigai.bsky.social, and Tricky Goose @markhooper.bsky.social #AIMOS2025
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- Our annual #Christmas gift guide. A tradition! Only for fun. No affiliate links. www.christmasgifts.io
- I'm a bit weary of talks and papers that end, "So, we need to change the incentive structure." That's not a conclusion, it's a premise! #researchintegrity
- It occurred to me that we need Contributor Statements (like CRediT), except to describe various uses of Gen-AI in research. But like all decent thoughts, someone else had it first. I really like what this group has done. Their tool is useful: www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai... #researchintegrity
- The people who say "science is self-correcting" are not usually the same people who work hard to correct science.
- Just submitted a highly amusing abstract to the International Research Integrity Conference (Sydney, November). Whatever the outcome, hope to see you there! Abstracts close on Monday. researchintegrityconf.com
- Some folks confuse these things —who think the 'water movement' must be flawed, since bottled water is expensive, and contaminated water is poisonous. Clean water and #openaccess both cost $. We don't really need corporations selling packaged products, but communities funding reservoirs and taps.
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- My daughter made this clay model, and stuck it on my webcam. So, if we’re chatting, know that I’m also speaking with a jaunty goose.
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- It boggles my mind that anyone would submit their work to any journal that they do not also read. #Academicsky
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- Reposted by Mark HooperNavigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch
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- I vibecoded this little tool for detecting duplications and clones within scientific figures. I think it works ok! Please try it. There are sample images you can try. Free to use. Not nearly as good as the paid models, obviously. 👉 dejaview.streamlit.app #researchintegrity @elisabethbik.bsky.social
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- The Gantt Chart templates that universities offer their postgraduate students are some of the ugliest things I've ever seen.
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- Consider studying #philosophy. It’s fun, and: “Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning…” theconversation.com/studying-phi...
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- Two academics emailed me, saying kind things about my work. This honestly made my week. If your Friday allows time, hammer-out a quick note that might make someone else's week. Let's emulate the good ones.
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- “There are only three classes of men that we in general have no patience with — superiors, inferiors, and equals.” - Walter Savage Landor [hat-tip Michael Gilleland]
- My 6-yr-old just described $9.80 as twenty-to-ten, as if money can be described like time, and this has shaken me.
- “This LLM writes at a PhD Level” sounds a lot like, “This machine produces barista-grade coffee at the touch of a button”.
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- Reposted by Mark HooperThe best way to protect the scientific record is to prevent stats errors from entering it in the first place! Two weeks 'til our webinar featuring @tomhardwicke.bsky.social & @michelenuijten.bsky.social. Register here: qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- To me, every talk with a title like “How to Get Published in High Impact Journals” has the same vibes as “How to get rich with Realestate”.
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- Reposted by Mark HooperToday, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
- Reposted by Mark HooperThe NHMRC has today released a Good Institutional Practice Guide. I'm biased, because I was involved in its development, but I think it's a great document that the Australian research community really needs. www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/pub...
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- Reposted by Mark HooperThe call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
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- We discuss cultural change initiatives to promote #researchintegrity. We distinguish 2 schemas of research integrity: 👉The thick, lived kind 👉The thin, rule-based kind. We need both. What’s interesting is trying to understand how they relate. Had fun writing this! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Objectively good choice, Australia. #Hottest100
- Reposted by Mark HooperNature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Going through old books to clear shelf space, and donate. Look what I found! Precious four-leaf clovers. And one fiver! The pages of a Bob Dylan lyrics book are a good place to be pressed, I think. I was given this book for my 18th birthday. Perhaps I can keep it.
- Fabrication of scientific images is easy and common. If you’re in doubt, go to PubPeer, search “duplication”, & consider the number of dodgy figures discovered in the past hours and days. Can't ignore the problem! Need to discuss it in the open, and better education. #researchintegrity #academicsky
- New idea for a card game: “Tortured Academia”. It's based, of course, on the comic tragedy of tortured phrases in publishing ethics. You have to guess the proper academic term based on the absurd description. Fuller explanation on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-h... #researchintegrity
- I’m not a stoic, but agree very much about a stick for indifference to university ranking systems.
- Seems like positive news to me! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Hemingway had this nice idea about stopping work ‘mid-thought’, when the next step is clear. Makes it more exciting to get back to work in the morning. “I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.” [Hemingway, Moveable Feast]
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- I made an icon on the Noun Project about six years ago.This is my running total profit. Killing it!
- Apparently libraries like to claim February 14th as "Library Lovers Day". I'm all for it. And as a person who once worked for universities, but no longer has access to university libraries, let me tell you mournfully that it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
- Image detection tools are wild. Consider this PubPeer comment by @sholtodavid.bsky.social : pubpeer.com/publications... However long I looked, I couldn't see the match. But I put them in AfterEffects, messed with their rotation and proportions, and voilà! Would you see it by eye? #researchintegrity
- Reposted by Mark HooperLatest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org
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- New page! Hope it’s useful for students who know something about academia, but haven’t yet reflected critically on the importance of #researchintegrity. Hope it annoys anyone who is boring enough to think that integrity is only about following basic rules. www.trickygoose.training/intro_resear...
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- A thing I have learnt is that you should never share your favourite poetry with anyone, because it’s impossible to make them understand how good it is, and why it is so good.
