Un articolo pubblicato sul Guardian fa il punto sulla situazione della letteratura scientifica, i problemi che la affliggono e le cause che conducono alla pubblicazione di articoli poco significativi o scritti e revisionati da sistemi di AI, o pubblicati senza alcun processo di validazione. | Open Science @Unimi
Un recente articolo apparso su Science affronta il tema del cattivo uso (a detrimento della scienza) che può essere fatto dei risultati di una attività, quella degli “investigatori della scienza” (science sleuths). Queste figure, nate da qualche anno, sulla scorta della constatazione che ci sono molte ricerche in cui gli autori tendono a “tagliare gli angoli”, usare immagini già prodotte per altre ricerche, escludere i risultati negativi o modificare i dati, sono impegnate a rileva...| Open Science @Unimi
Stanford’s investigation into its own president did not include some allegations it was made aware of in writing. It also lost out on access to some witnesses.| The Stanford Daily
Marc Tessier-Lavigne sent faculty and staff an email Friday stating that The Daily's reporting on allegations that his Alzheimer's research contained falsified data was "replete with falsehoods." Daily Editor in Chief Sam Catania ’24 said the paper stands by its reporting.| The Stanford Daily
In this very interesting post, Professor Jennifer Byrne (University of Sydney Medical School and Children's Hospital at Westmead) looks at the mistakes being made in circRNAs papers, even in high-profile, supposedly high-quality and distinguished publications.| AHRECS
If someone asked you for some recommended reading or viewing to help them understand human research ethics, animal ethics or research integrity, what would you recommend? The policies and standards issued by National governments, learned societies, funding bodies and academic publications are generally not especially engaging or entertaining. In this blog post, Sally Dalton-Brown discusses a couple of options from the streaming and fiction publishing offerings. They won't exactly discuss, exp...| AHRECS