Reese Richardson

@reeserichardson.bsky.social

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I am a recent PhD studying metascience and computational biology. My blog: https://reeserichardson.blog

A sign in German. It reads: 06:30 10:30 UHR ① 07:00 - 11: Auch für externe Gäste! KEINE FRÜHSTÜCKSBUCHUNG? KEIN PROBLEM - KOMMEN SIE VORBE GROBE AUSWAHL FRISCH & REGIONAL KAFFEE-SPEZIALITÄTEN GE VIE
Over an image of a skeleton squatting a barbell, text reads "MY BODY IS A MACHINE THAT TURNS AMPHETAMINES INTO THEOREMS"
An oriental fire-bellied toad faces the glass of its enclosure. It's back is green and black and warty. It's belly has a stripey black and yellow pattern.
Evidence of manipulation in a Western blot hosted in Thermo Fisher's antibody catalog. Sections of background noise have apparently been duplicated.
A Western blot where the background has apparently been painted out.
Problematic images removed from Thermo Fisher's site
Instance of nine Western blots for nine different antibodies all using the same background pattern and the same band shape.
An animated GIF collating more than 100 instances of Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification catalog all sharing the same background (contrast adjusted)
In a statement emailed to C&EN, Thermo Fisher Scientific chief communications offer Sandy Pound says, “We take antibody validation, specificity and accurate product documentation seriously, and we are committed to the transparent and ethical generation, analysis and presentation of scientific data. In the process of preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes.”...In the company statement, Pound says that the company plans on “providing the original and adjusted versions of the relevant images, as well as ensuring that users are informed that antibody images may have been optimized for presentation on the website.” https://cen.acs.org/research-integrity/Sleuths-say-Thermo-Fisher-doctored/104/web/2026/05
In a statement emailed to C&EN, Thermo Fisher Scientific chief communications offer Sandy Pound says, “We take antibody validation, specificity and accurate product documentation seriously, and we are committed to the transparent and ethical generation, analysis and presentation of scientific data. In the process of preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes.”...In the company statement, Pound says that the company plans on “providing the original and adjusted versions of the relevant images, as well as ensuring that users are informed that antibody images may have been optimized for presentation on the website.”
Evidence of manipulation in verification data included in Thermo Fisher's online antibodies catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
An EDX spectrum from a scientific article. One of the elemental labels is suspiciously cloud-shaped.
An image from a scientific article depicting nanoparticles. One of the nanoparticles is shaped suspiciously like the "Cloud" default shape in Microsoft Office.
A stock photo of an old man looking angry.
a group of luggage racks under a sign that says "bicycles"
A paper mill advertisement on Telegram: Paper ID : Q-018 Paper Type : Research Paper Paper Status : Revised Exact Title: Optimizing Solar Energy Utilization: Insights on Energy Storage Battery Capacities and Residential Self-Sufficiency Journal: Energy Systems Journal Link: https://www.springer.com/journal/12667 Publisher : Springer Indexing : Web of science , Scopus Impact Factor : 2.3 CiteScore : 5.2 Available positions: 2nd: 600$ 3th: 500$ 4th: 400$ 5th: Booked 6th: 350$
A boxplot with authorship slot (1st author through 5th author) on the x axis and price in USD on the y axis. Prices are split by paper mill of origin.
A bar chart showing publication year on the x-axis and number of articles with tortured phrases on the y-axis. The count increases from near zero in 2013 to around 4,000 in 2021.
a tabby cat stares at the camera with what seems to be a hopeful, upturned smile. The text reads "starting tomorrow everything's going to be okay. they just announced it"
Five hailstones laid out on concrete, measuring between 1.5 inches and 3 inches across
Worm driving an apple car from Richard Scarry's Busytown
Figure 2A from "Torsional flexibility of the thoracic spine is superior to that of the lumbar spine in cats: Implications for the falling cat problem" https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70165 [DOI not resolving at time of posting] https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.70165 A gray cat is held in a fetal position in the first frame, then dropped. The three successive frames show the cat rotating in place so that its feet face the ground. In the second frame, the cat sticks its tongue out and looks downward.
A carved rubber stamp and its image, pressed in blue ink on the inside cover of a book. The bookplate reads "EX LIBRIS RAKR" in serif font and features a skull surrounding by radial lines.
A line graph with Year on the x axis and Total Clinical Prediction Model Studies on the y axis. The caption reads: Figure 5. Cumulative number of publications using either of the two Kaggle datasets over time assessed by OpenAlex publication date. There were 106 of the 124 articles available in OpenAlex with a publication date available.
A black and white scatterplot with Patient ID on the x axis and blood glucose level on the y axis. The caption reads: Figure 2. Average blood glucose level plotted against the patient identifier for the stroke dataset. The plot shows a clear shift in the distribution of glucose at half the maximum ID variable.
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A diagram highlighting image re-use betwren two articles that I recorded on PubPeer. Both articles are now retracted.
A scientific figure containing seven scanning electron microscope images of nanoparticles on nanofibers (they look kinda like brussels sprouts on stalks).
Elon Musk tweet from 2022: You might notice small. sometimes major, improvements in speed of Twitter. Wil be especially significant in countries far away from USA. A reply from a guy named "Jay odoyle": You should invent a hammer with a camera inside!!!
Polychrome glass vessel in the form of a 'bulti'-fish: this is the most spectacular of a small group offish-form vessels, all representing the 'bulti'-fish common in the Nile and a standard feature of Egyptian decorative art. The body is core-built in blue glass, matt finish, and is decorated with simple festoons in groups of three or four white lines followed by a yellow line. The tail decorations are in the same colours. The dorsal fin is composed of a series of heavy threads in the body blue, white, yellow, and turquoise-blue. The front fins are each composed of one light and one darker blue thread. The front ventral fins are made from one white and one yellow thread each while the rear ventral fin is of turquoise-blue glass. A yellow thread outlines the mouth. The eyes are white opaque circles with the pupils represented by black thread loops. The fish is assembled from several fragments.
A sign reading "Try Me Nails"
Larry the cat, a rotund tabby, gets scratched on the head and exposes his teef.
A man wearing a brown blazer stands in a room filled with blue and white chinese porcelian, explaining something to the camera. The screen reads "Lars Tharp".
Images of cells embedded within a gel. Duplictated regions are highlighted in colored boxes
A screenshot of an instagram reel showing large rocks and boulders scattered around a living room
A bog body in a display case. It looks like a hoodie that has been tumbling around a gutter for a few months.
AI generated figure about autism
Frolicking through the snow, all bundled up, pulling a red sled behind me with a toddler gripping on for dear life
An SEM image of pores in a surface. Red arrows point to structures labeled "pores" and "pillars". The metadata banner along the bottom of the image appears to have been fabricated, the dead giveaway being that the timestamp reads "15 Fab 2023".
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"Sex," "female," "male," "women," and "men" are defined in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and related executive orders.
Jair Bolsonaro wandering around the checkout lanes of a Publix
A view of the gilded stage of the Lyric Opera of Chicago with a seated orchestra.
A line graph of an EDX spectrum where the peaks are labelled with Miller indices, as if this is actually supposed to be an X-ray diffraction patterns. Red arrows indicate overhangs.
Harrison Ford embraces a bottle of Kirin beer as tall as he is in a Japanese advertisement.
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A jack-o-lantern glowing in the dark--the outside is carved with a linework image of the 1793 painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David.
A green uzi submachine gun with a screen affixed to the back and trumpet valves on its grip.
A green computer monitor mounted to a box. The box features numerous buttons and panels, oversized ethernet ports and a panel of every type of USB recievers. The whole assembly is mounted on four spindly-looking robot legs with wheels.