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Anne Peyroche has been acting president of the French science organization since last October.

Ashutosh Tiwari, who falsely claimed to be affiliated with Linköping University, is also under investigation for alleged scientific misconduct and fraud.

Academics had expressed disapproval with the college’s handling of sexual harassment allegations made against a brain sciences professor.

Fazlul Sarkar had unsuccessfully sued PubPeer to reveal the identity of a commenter who accused him of research misconduct.

This year’s controversial news included unethical behavior among politicians, a murder, and multiple accusations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, in addition to the usual spate of research misconduct.

Marie Claire speaks with researchers who’d reported abuse in studies of harassment in the field.

The nine plaintiffs allege the university’s actions put women at risk.

Kathy Partin, whose staff had expressed concerns about changes she instituted, was reportedly asked to leave.

An open letter from hundreds of faculty members in the U.S. and abroad declares they won’t encourage students to pursue education or careers there.

Investigations into cases of wrongdoing by professors are increasingly in the public eye. But are colleges and universities doing enough to deal with the problem?

The professors, all faculty members in the college’s department of psychology and brain sciences, have been placed on paid leave. 

The group calls for the retraction of six publications by surgeon Paolo Macchiarini regarding the synthetic trachea transplantations that led to the death of at least three patients. 

Rohit Varma’s termination, following the recent resignation of his predecessor over misbehavior, came as the Los Angeles Times prepared to report on a 2003 sexual harassment case.

Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.

Yoshinori Watanabe of the University of Tokyo was found to have tampered with images in five prominent publications. 

The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.

Molecular and Cellular Biology has found numerous errors after launching a retrospective sweep of the figures it’s published in recent years. 

See coauthors' connections to eight researchers with problematic papers.

A committee says an independent organization designed to foster research integrity would stem misconduct.

The embattled thoracic surgeon blames his former employer, the Karolinska Institute, for losing data related to the retracted research.