By: Björn

Additional reads in September 2018
September 10, 2018

“Cluster Failure”: fMRI False Positives Revisited Journals and refereeing: toward a new equilibrium In the name of reproducibility There is an…

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Neuroscience 2018 Satellite Symposium
September 10, 2018

Quality in preclinical data: Increasing the robustness and validity of behavioral and physiological testing in animal studies This meeting will take…

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Genetic and transcriptional evolution alters cancer cell line drug response
September 10, 2018

In this paper, published in Nature, the authors analysed how different cancer cells are – not so much from the original…

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To Have Practical Relevance, Scientific Claims Need to be Accurate
September 10, 2018

For all different stakeholders within the scientific community (researchers, reviewers, editors, policymakers, funding agencies, journalists, and the general public) it is…

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Guidelines on statistics for researchers using laboratory animals: the essentials
September 10, 2018

There is a growing concern that flawed statistics and deficient reproducibility in biomedical studies results in an unethical waste of animals…

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A randomised controlled trial of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines (IICARus)
September 10, 2018

The ARRIVE guidelines are widely endorsed but compliance is limited. The IICARus Collaboration group sought to determine whether journal-requested completion of…

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ECNP Preclinical Network Data Prize: The Award Winner
September 5, 2018

The ECNP Preclinical Network has announced the winner of the Award for the best publication of negative results in preclinical neuroscience….

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Social sciences: Replication studies show that 3 out of 5 is good
August 30, 2018

Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 Being able to replicate scientific findings…

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A repository for protocols – protocols.io
August 22, 2018

Lenny Teytelman wrote in a Nature – World View article about the necessity to share experimental protocols to be able to…

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Unambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID
August 21, 2018

Unambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID The reproducibility crisis…

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