Happy Peer Review Week! [ TLDR: To make my latest tumble down a deep rabbit hole marginally less bumpy, I downloaded >200K peer review documents for >30K articles in four open access journals published by BMC (an imprint of Springer Nature). You can find links to download these archives in full here or at the bottom of this post.
Today, our article “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly” was published in PNAS . The article will only be fully open-access in six months (damn you, publishing fees), but I’ve made the PDF available here (you can download the supplementary materials on the PNAS page). I’ll use this blog post to summarize and opine (what I write here reflects my own thinking about this study
A review of a recent anti-vaccine preprint
On July the 17th 2025, Julien ran a MINToring workshop in the Making Lab. Young FLINTA students (15-17 years old) were invited in the Making Lab (which is situated inside the TU/UdK library) as part of the MINToring Program of the FU Berlin. We met Dr. Mouawad while being on the FU campus with the Mobile lab. Since we are a BUA project, we could easily collaborate with this initiative from the FU Berlin.
“I have learned much from my teachers and even more from my friends, but from my students I have learned most of all” Graduation is one of the most enjoyable milestones in the academic calendar.
All your dreams are made, when you’re chained to the lecture and the teaching trade. Was that lecture, lab or lesson a dream or a nightmare? Exactly what did you learn from the experience? When you reflect on it, how will you tell yourself and others the stories of your study?
A comprehensive starting point for performing post-publication peer review.
Berlin researchers can now access a central lab and a mobile lab to design and produce research hardware. The BUA mobile lab is on tour, with a first stop at the FU Berlin in June 2025. Dear Berlin researchers, Have you ever heard of makerspaces, 3d printing, or open source research hardware? You may wonder how these concepts are connected with open science and research reproducibility.
Detailing yet another citation manipulation scheme in Google Scholar
During the Hannover Messe 2025, we presented the BUA Mobile Lab, and both the Open.Make and the LAUDS Factories projects. We got the chance to talk with experienced experts from industry including engineers, managers, consultants and business leaders about hardware development practices.
Next week, starting 31.05.2025, we will be one week in Hannover for the Hannover Messe. The Messe is quite famous (the. “world leading industryshow”) in the world of the manufacturing industry.