By: Björn
Newsletter May 2020
May 28, 2020NEWS The Global Preclinical Data Forum announces the 2020 Negative Data Prize – Read more Dr. Thomas Steckler joins the PAASP Advisory…
Read MoreAdditional reads in May 2020
May 28, 2020SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology Against pandemic research exceptionalism Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already Spin…
Read MoreThe Global Preclinical Data Forum announces the 2020 Negative Data Prize
May 28, 2020The Global Preclinical Data Forum (GPDF), a partnership of Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB), a non-profit research biotech, and the European College…
Read MoreOctopus: The primary research record
May 28, 2020Created in partnership with the UK Reproducibility Network, the Octopus platform is free to use and publishes all kinds of scientific…
Read MoreUsing Microsoft OneNote as an ELN
May 28, 2020Electronic research data documentation can be achieved with either comprehensive software applications or “do-it-yourself” solutions. Whereas the first is often quite…
Read MoreBeauty is not everything
May 28, 2020Being able to trust the experimental data is critical for experimental research. This is certainly also true for Western Blotting as…
Read MorePLOS launches research data survey
May 28, 2020PLOS has launched a major survey targeting researchers in North America and Europe: The goal is to deepen the understanding of…
Read MoreDie Reproduzierbarkeitskrise: Bedrohung oder Chance für die Wissenschaft? (In German)
May 28, 2020In this Editorial, published in Biologie in unserer Zeit, Martin C. Michel and Ralf Dahm discuss threats and opportunities related to…
Read MoreSystematic review of guidelines for internal validity in the design, conduct and analysis of preclinical biomedical experiments involving laboratory animals
May 28, 2020Several initiatives have set out to increase transparency and internal validity of preclinical studies. While many of the points raised in…
Read MoreVariability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams
May 28, 2020To test the reproducibility and robustness of results obtained in the neuroimaging field, 70 independent teams of neuroimaging experts from across…
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