By: Björn
Reproducibility Issues – The Ghosts of HeLa
July 9, 2018Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of the food-borne disease listeriosis. This disease primarily affects pregnant women,…
Read MoreElsevier replies to The Guardian
July 9, 2018Hot publications appear not only in Science and Nature. The lay press is also capable of getting their readers excited and…
Read MoreBefore Reproducibility must come Preproducibility
July 9, 2018Many of us ask a question – what can I do to help improve the research data quality? And we are…
Read MoreThe strategy may change, but high quality standards should stay
July 9, 2018Like many of our colleagues in neuroscience, we were surprised to see the recent steps Pfizer took in the field of…
Read MoreAdditional information in July 2018
July 9, 2018Rigorous Resources for Rigorous Research Bill of Health Blog Symposium: Research Integrity and Trustworthy Science Registered Reports to support reproducibility –…
Read MoreResearchers’ risk-smoothing publication strategies: Is productivity the enemy of impact?
July 9, 2018In the quest for balancing research productivity and impact, researchers in science and engineering are often encouraged to adopt a ‘play-it-safe’…
Read MoreFour simple ways to increase power without increasing the sample size
July 9, 2018Underpowered experiments have three problems: true effects are harder to detect, the true effects that are detected tend to have inflated…
Read MoreCrisis or self-correction: Rethinking media narratives about the well-being of science
July 9, 2018This essay by Kathleen H. Jamieson has explored three news narratives about science (quest discovery, counterfeit quest, systemic problem) and recommended…
Read MoreThe 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, 2018The question of how quality of preclinical data is connected to patients in clinical trials is addressed in this article by…
Read MoreP values in display items are ubiquitous and almost invariably significant: A survey of top science journals
July 9, 2018P values represent a widely used, but pervasively misunderstood and fiercely contested method of scientific inference. Display items, such as figures…
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