By: Björn
Social sciences: Replication studies show that 3 out of 5 is good
August 30, 2018Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 Being able to replicate scientific findings…
Read MoreA repository for protocols – protocols.io
August 22, 2018Lenny Teytelman wrote in a Nature – World View article about the necessity to share experimental protocols to be able to…
Read MoreUnambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID
August 21, 2018Unambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID The reproducibility crisis…
Read MoreStudies Unable to Reproduce Results of Two Diabetes Papers
August 16, 2018Two examples from Diabetes research of non-reproducible studies. A commentary on The Scientist published on August 10th, 2018. There will always…
Read MoreFAIR and ALCOAplus – data management principles
August 13, 2018Data recording practices play a central element in research and can vary largely from lab to lab and researcher to researcher….
Read MoreThe Four Most Dangerous Words? A New Study Shows
August 2, 2018The two philanthropists Laura and John Arnold funded with an incredible sum of $967 million (link) projects for education, public pensions…
Read MoreBioFIT 2018
August 1, 2018BioFIT 2018 (link) will be held in Lille from December 4th to 5th and is one of the largest conferences to foster…
Read MoreBe open! Ongoing efforts to make science more open…
July 20, 2018At the beginning of July, the Wellcome Trust (WT), one of UK’s biggest non-governmental biomedical research funders, announced that they will provide a platform…
Read MoreAdditional Reads in August 2016
July 20, 2018eNeuro editorial: Scientific Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Christophe Bernard, editor in chief of eNeuro, discusses in this editorial the issue of…
Read MoreBayes’ Theorem: How do we weigh evidence to make decisions?
July 20, 2018In this clearly and graphically explained educational video, Amber Biology offers an intuitive introduction to Bayes’ Theorem, using biomarkers and ovarian cancer…
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