By: Björn
Research Funding: the Case for a Modified Lottery
April 19, 2017The time-honored mechanism of allocating funds based on ranking of proposals by scientific peer review is no longer effective, because review…
Read MoreReplication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts
April 19, 2017Researchers agree that replicability and reproducibility are key aspects of science. Here, K. Andrew DeSoto and Martin Schweinsberg present datasets collected…
Read MoreMeta-assessment of bias in science
April 19, 2017Numerous biases are believed to affect the scientific literature, but their actual prevalence across disciplines is unknown. To gain a comprehensive…
Read MoreIncreasing efficiency of preclinical research by group sequential designs
April 19, 2017Despite the potential benefits of sequential designs, studies evaluating treatments or experimental manipulations in preclinical experimental biomedicine almost exclusively use classical…
Read MoreNot allowed to publish everywhere
March 26, 2017The Economist reported (link) that the biggest foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have a new policy…
Read MoreMeeting Report: Reproducible Research and Registered Reports
March 21, 2017NIHR STATS Group: Laboratory StudiesLondon, 20 March 2017 Invited speakerThe meeting opened with a comprehensive presentation by guest speaker Professor Chris…
Read MoreEffect Vibrations and a Roman God
March 19, 2017There are a large number of ways how to analyze the same data set. Depending on the decision made in handling,…
Read MoreAdditional Reads in March 2017
March 19, 2017Replication is not about making or breaking careers: it is about providing an opportunity to move science forward. Psychology journal editor asked…
Read MoreFebruary 2017
March 7, 2017Biowebspin: PAASP partners with the academic-industry network platform Biowebspin – Read more Author checklists: We do make an impact – Read…
Read MoreNo publication without confirmation
February 28, 2017In a Nature Comment article Malcolm McCleod and Jeffrey Mogli present a very interesting idea for preclinical research to improve trust…
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