Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Nice summary of some of the highlights of Germany's accelerating descent to a “schwellenland.” Add to this the energy debacle; even without blackouts, the skyrocketing energy prices will drive the industry away, leading to a loss of jobs, and so on.

https://www.dw.com/de/ein-land-funkt-sos-deutschland-an-der-belastungsgrenze/a-64189343

@toxomat @erik_kwakkel UZH has responded on Twitter https://twitter.com/UZH_ch/status/1607332965784162305 that the Dept of Romance Studies has been notified:

“Die UZH ist den Regeln guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis verpflichtet. Sie hat klar geregelte Strukturen und Abläufe für die Untersuchung von Fällen mit Verdacht auf wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten. Das Romanische Seminar wurde informiert.”

@lauraingalli @LisaFaginDavis I trust the @snsf_ch to look into it—there are simply too many things that don’t add up.

Things are going well, the robot brought a round of coffee for the astronauts and the engineers.

This great song just came to my mind…
https://yewtu.be/wjjCeTQB7RA

Engineers find that something is not quite right.

Inspection time. #lego

@shriramk @martinsteiger Panic?

@shriramk @martinsteiger A nice change from dealing with drug cases (which appears to be the specialty of the lawyer whose photo has been used).

@shriramk Yeah, “suppress” looks like a language issue to me, from French “supprimer,” i.e., that positions have been cut.

@shriramk @martinsteiger While the discussion was ongoing on Twitter and Mastodon, pictures and affiliations disappeared from the Website, names changed, facsimiles in the book changed.

@shriramk @martinsteiger The book projects of Prof. Rossi (with her own “publisher”) have been funded by the SNSF with grants for OA book publications.

@shriramk @martinsteiger This is already bad enough, but it then turned out that Rossi had set up a foundation in Ticino and a variety of dubious foundations and companies (with an accommodation address in London). The “employees” seem to be either family or fake (with stock photo portraits), plus some real academics, who are probably unaware of what's going on.

@shriramk @martinsteiger No, this time it’s a romance philology “titularprofessor” at #UZH (at least formerly). The starting point was this blog post by Peter Kidd: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html…

I guess the #Rossi affair will be an unpleasant surprise for some institutions here in Switzerland after the holidays… As @martinsteiger put it, “What began as ordinary case of plagiarism, has now become an actual scientific thriller.”