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Four 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…
Read MoreRecommendations for the Design and Analysis of In Vivo Electrophysiology Studies
July 9, 2018Recommendations for the Design and Analysis of In Vivo Electrophysiology Studies The Journal of Neuroscience has recently released a series of…
Read MoreNew research platform Springer Nature Experiments
July 9, 2018On 2018 July 25th, the SpringerProtocols.com platform will be deactivated and replaced by the new research platform Springer Nature Experiments, a…
Read MoreHow to grow a healthy lab
June 6, 2018A healthy research environment is fundamental to good science. However, this is an aspect that is rarely discussed. That’s partly because…
Read MoreReplication Study: Fusobacterium nucleatum infection is prevalent in human colorectal carcinoma
June 6, 2018As part of the “Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology”, a Registered Report (Repass et al., 2016) was published in 2016, that described…
Read MoreAdditional reads in March 2018
March 30, 2018Performance-driven culture is ruining scientific research Science needs to redefine excellence How to make replication the norm Von Mäusen, Makaken und…
Read MoreSackler Colloquium on Improving the Reproducibility of Scientific Research
March 30, 2018At the Sackler Colloquium focused on “Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies,” David B. Allison, Richard Shiffrin, and Victoria Stodden…
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