By: Björn

Before Reproducibility must come Preproducibility
July 9, 2018

Many of us ask a question – what can I do to help improve the research data quality? And we are…

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The strategy may change, but high quality standards should stay
July 9, 2018

Like many of our colleagues in neuroscience, we were surprised to see the recent steps Pfizer took in the field of…

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Additional information in July 2018
July 9, 2018

Rigorous Resources for Rigorous Research Bill of Health Blog Symposium: Research Integrity and Trustworthy Science Registered Reports to support reproducibility –…

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Researchers’ risk-smoothing publication strategies: Is productivity the enemy of impact?
July 9, 2018

In the quest for balancing research productivity and impact, researchers in science and engineering are often encouraged to adopt a ‘play-it-safe’…

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Four simple ways to increase power without increasing the sample size
July 9, 2018

Underpowered experiments have three problems: true effects are harder to detect, the true effects that are detected tend to have inflated…

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Crisis or self-correction: Rethinking media narratives about the well-being of science
July 9, 2018

This essay by Kathleen H. Jamieson has explored three news narratives about science (quest discovery, counterfeit quest, systemic problem) and recommended…

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The bench is closer to the bedside than we think: Uncovering the ethical ties between preclinical researchers in translational neuroscience and patients in clinical trials
July 9, 2018

The question of how quality of preclinical data is connected to patients in clinical trials is addressed in this article by…

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P values in display items are ubiquitous and almost invariably significant: A survey of top science journals
July 9, 2018

P values represent a widely used, but pervasively misunderstood and fiercely contested method of scientific inference. Display items, such as figures…

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Recommendations for the Design and Analysis of In Vivo Electrophysiology Studies
July 9, 2018

Recommendations for the Design and Analysis of In Vivo Electrophysiology Studies The Journal of Neuroscience has recently released a series of…

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Newly developed ‘Harmonized animal research reporting principles’ (HARRP) published
July 9, 2018

The International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) has recently published Harmonized Animal Research Reporting Principles (HARRP), the first step of…

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