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Optimising reliability of mouse performance in behavioural testing: the major role of non-aversive handling
April 19, 2017Handling laboratory animals during test procedures is an important source of stress that may impair reliability of test responses. Picking up…
Read MoreEmpirical assessment of published effect sizes and power in the recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature
April 19, 2017In this paper, Denes Szucs and John P.A. Ioannidis have empirically assessed the distribution of published effect sizes and estimated power…
Read MoreResearch 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 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 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…
Read MoreReproducibility2020: Progress and Priorities
February 28, 2017One year after Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) issued its Reproducibility2020 challenge and action plan for the biomedical research community, Freedman…
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February 27, 2017In a Nature Comment Malcolm McCleod and Jeffrey Mogli present an idea for preclinical research to improve trust in animal studies…
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