Mark Hooper

@markhooper.bsky.social

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Founder of Tricky Goose Training (https://www.trickygoose.training), COPE Council Member, Philosophy PhD. #researchintegrity #openscience #academicintegrity #philosophy

A picture of a friendly ghost. It's blushing and cute. A person's legs are sticking out the bottom of a big sheet. Text reads: "Friendly Ghosts? Ethical dilemmas when research contributors decline authorship. WCRI, Tuesday, 10:30 - 12:00, Stream G (Seymour).
A mockup of an infographic poster that's supposed to show statistics and strategies in relation to chess openings. On close inspection, it's obviously AI nonsense. Squares are wrongly labelled. Arrows point in meaningless directions, and run contrary to how pieces actually move.
Screenshot from pubpeer. Comment written in bold and brackets reads: "Moderator: are you serious, Joshua A. Beckman? Do you realise that everybody in the world can read this and understand that you are capable of denying that there are exactly 12 blue and 11 red points visible in Fig. 3A. I counted them, too. Also, there is no reason in the world not to share the list of your 28 points."
On the left is a glass of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access.’ In the middle is a plastic bottle of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access, but stupidly costly.’ On the right is a plastic bottle full of putrid water labelled ‘Predatory open access.’
A tiny clay model of a goose sits upon a Logi brand webcam. It has a white body, black eyes, one bigger than the other, and an orange beak. The neck is cocked slightly to its right, as if to convey attitude, or perhaps a lively cheerful manner.
Seven pressed four-leaf clovers lie on a tissue, which rests on the pages of a Bob Dylan Lyrics coffee-table book. The songs on this page are "Long-Distance Operator" and "This Wheel's on Fire".
Mockup image of the draft game. Examples include: DNA’s dramatic monologue (Genetics), Being sadness theory (Philosophy), Fancy lie for meaning (Literature), Quantum feline box of uncertainty (Physics), Pyramid of priorities (Psychology), Animal-to-human oopsie (Health, Epidemiology).
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Two scientific images show an unexpected duplication as discovered by ImageTwin. It isn't obvious that the sections are the same. The animation rotates and stretches the righthand panel, and overlays it on the other. It appears that they match.
Image generated with MidJourney using prompt: "detailed oil painting, in the style of a Rembrandt self portrait, of a man holding a pint of beer at his desk."
Scientific image containing 12 panels. Three sets of markup (highlighter pen) show potential duplications.
A table cloth covered in LEGO, ordered in a rough array, sorted by colour.
Screenshot of the first section of Alexandra Lippman's paper, "Humor, Hoaxes, and Software in the Search for Academic Misconduct." The first sentence is highlighted, "The Office of Research Integrity is hardly renowned for its sense of humor."
A jar of spiced pickled cabbage by ACIDE.
Infographic discussion primer about paper mills. It explains, for example, that paper mills are a toxic business model that preys upon the perverse incentive structures of academia. A diagram of a conveyor belt explains how shoddy papers are produced, and then sold to authors, using AI, and by manipulating editors and publication processes.
A screenshot of Sadeghi's paper, which reads: "He categorized plagiarism into four types: Intihal, Salkh, Elmam, and Naql: 1. Intihal (verbatim copy): Shams-e-Qays mentioned that this “means ascribing the exact words of someone to self. This is verbatim copy of the words without change (or very small change).” 2. Salkh: Salkh means flaying and, as Shams-e-Qays mentioned, this “ means using words from another scholar and changing the order of them and using them again.” 3. Elmam: Elmam means approaching, which “means using a concept from another scholar and using them as own with different words.” 4. Naql: Naql means transferring: “This means that a scholar takes a concept from another one and transferring its context.” He gives an example of transferring a concept from a complaint to a eulogy context."
Part of an infographic discussion primer. "How do we determine the order of authors?" Two researchers sit either side of a see saw. One contributed software development, critical review, and conceptualization. The other contributed data collection, analysis, and first draft.
Fifteen panels show photographs of crabs. Some of them are actually the very same photo except recoloured, zoomed, or flipped. It's not too obvious unless you look closely.
A picture of a website gift guide and in particular one picture of a water funnel painted to look like Pinocchio.
Infographic discussion primer about researcher assessment by Tricky Goose Training.
Mockup of four playing cards. Each shows an imaginary researcher and certain information about them - e.g. their impact on policy, their h-index, and a sample quote.
A cross section of the ocean. On the surface are some boats, labelled "Compliance", "rules" and "policies". Underneath the ocean is a complex ecosystem of creatures, treasures and wrecks labelled after complex issues in research integrity such as "researcher assessment", "paper mills", "detection tools", and many others.
An infographic discussion primer about paper mills on one A3 page. For example, the business models of paper mills is represented as a conveyor belt with numerous stages. Challenging questions and links to literature are provided for discussion.
Infographic A3 discussion primer for researchers about paper mills.
A picture of a menu titled "Degustation" which is really the agenda for a course about research supervision.