Tweeting news, commentary, events, and other resources for promoting the responsible conduct of research (RCR), research ethics, and research integrity.
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The Office of Research Integrity - "Elisabeth Handley Joins ORI as Interim Director" view.connect.hhs.gov/?qs=7f3…
Webinar: Learn about the new National Academies report Reproducibility and Replicability in Science, authored by a committee of researchers appointed to study reproducibility and replicability in science. May 7 2019 1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) nasem.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
It looks like some RCR (responsible conduct of research) folks would like to take @TeachRCR and my web site teachrcr.us. I'm crossing my fingers.
2 of 2: I hope someone will take on the TeachRCR's Twitter and my teachrcr.us/. I'll try to reply from anyone on this, but I can't promise anything. Best of luck to all who are interested in ethical science. - Kenneth D. Pimple, PhD. MA, BA, BS
1 of 2: I haven't tweeted since June 1, 2018. My work at the Poynter Center 25-year career at the Indiana University. IU decided the Poynter Center was too expensive, so the Poynter Center took over (provost.indiana.edu/poynter-…). The stress of the last few years messed up my brain.
Title: "Life Reemerged Just Years After Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact"
Amazing finding: "Less than a decade after a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid wiped out 75 percent of life on Earth...sea creatures started to call the impact crater home...."
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Title: "Opinion: Should Human-Animal Chimeras Be Granted 'Personhood'?"
Lead: "Determining which products of advanced biotechnology are deserving of legal protections is essential to our own social architecture."
Me: I'm not impressed.
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Is a human with a transplanted pig's heart is still a human? Or a human's arms and legs are all manufactured, is that human only ~45% human? Do my eyeglasses make me less than human? Where's the line between science and balderdash?
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Title: "Opinion: We Must Demand Evidence of Peer Review"
Lead: "Peer review varies in quality and thoroughness. Making it publicly available could improve it."
Me: I wonder whether peer review in science works in other areas - arts, humanities, policy?
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Wow! Harvard Medical School, Weill Cornell Medical College, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and University of California-San Francisco fail to "reproduce some of the experiments" and retract the published paper. retractionwatch.com/2018/05/…
Title: "Survey says: A researcher wasn’t sure if he needed to correct a paper. So he created a poll. – Retraction Watch"
Me: Craig Jones did a good thing; his n=37 with 23 (62%) let to correct, and he is "prepping a correction to submit to the journal."
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Title: "NIH’s Neuroscience Institute Plans to Limit Financial Support for Well-Funded Investigators"
Lead: "...[The] National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will provide fewer grants to labs receiving more than $1 million in funds."
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2 of 2: Register for the report on the two-year study, “Branches from the Same Tree” eventbrite.com/e/branches-fr…
1 of 2: Join The National Academies for a webcast Monday, May 7, from 10:30am-1:30pm EDT on the new report, “The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree” sites.nationalacademies.org/…