How a Sharp-Eyed Scientist Became Biology’s Image Detective

June 25, 2021

(The New Yorker) – In March of 2019, when she was fifty-three, Bik decided to leave her job to do this detective work full time, launching a blog called Science Integrity Digest. Over the past six and a half years—while earning a bit of income from consulting and speaking, and receiving some crowdfunding—she has identified more than forty-nine hundred articles containing suspect image duplications, documenting them in a master spreadsheet. On Twitter, more than a hundred thousand people now follow her exposés. (Read Full Article)