By: Björn

Publish or Perish Debate at WCAA
January 30, 2017

Together with Rainer Spanagel (Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim) and Henry Kranzler (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine), Anton…

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Webinar bei Martin Michel
January 30, 2017

Prof. Dr. Martin Michel presented the November Cohen Veterans Bioscience Webinar on November 16th from 12 pm noon – 1 pm ET. Martin…

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A manifesto for reproducible science
January 11, 2017

Manufo et al published an open access manifesto in Nature Human Behavior for reproducible science. This interesting piece summarizes the problems…

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A pocket guide to electronic laboratory notebooks in the academic life sciences.
January 4, 2017

Scientists use lab notebooks (LNs) to document their hypotheses, experiments and initial analysis or interpretation of experiments. However, while complexity of…

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Authorization of Animal Experiments Is Based on Confidence Rather than Evidence of Scientific Rigor
January 3, 2017

Hanno Würbel and his team investigated the measures taken to decrease the risk of research biases in grant applications or publications:…

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Additional Reads in December 2016
December 23, 2016

Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research IntegrityThis recently published…

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Building Blocks of Good Research Practice, Amsterdam 2016
December 23, 2016

On October 27, 2016, several PAASP team members participated in a meeting in Amsterdam organized by the ECNP Preclinical Data Forum‘s core…

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Lack of reproducibility – an opportunity for precision medicine?
December 23, 2016

Our article ‘Reproducibility of Preclinical Data: One Man’s Poison Is Another Man’s Meat’ was published recently by the newly established journal…

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A Laboratory Critical Incident and Error Reporting System for Experimental Biomedicine
December 14, 2016

Incident reporting has its origins in the 1950s within the aviation industry where it has been seen to be successful in…

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Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research Integrity
November 26, 2016

This recently published survey identifies the most frequent problem in science: sloppy research.  The survey was performed among participants of the…

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