December 7, 2023

North Carolina State University: How Open Science Can Both Advance and Hinder Equity in Research

North Carolina State University: How Open Science Can Both Advance and Hinder Equity in Research. “In January 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science and Technology Council released an official definition of open science for use by the US government: ‘The principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity.’ While this definition promises equity, not all aspects of open science currently deliver.”

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December 6, 2023

How to cover academic research fraud and errors: 4 big takeaways from our webinar (The Journalist’s Resource)

The Journalist’s Resource: How to cover academic research fraud and errors: 4 big takeaways from our webinar. “Although retractions represent a tiny fraction of all academic papers published each year, bad research can have tremendous impacts…. On Nov. 30, The Journalist’s Resource hosted a free webinar to help journalists find and report on problematic research. Three experts who have covered research misconduct or have hands-on experience monitoring or detecting it offered a variety of tips and insights.”

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October 24, 2023

AVMA Journals: Converting the JAVMA and AJVR archives to digital files—an important ongoing project

AVMA Journals: Converting the JAVMA and AJVR archives to digital files—an important ongoing project. “Librarians have long wrestled with how best to fulfill requests for single articles pertinent to a historian’s or veterinary scholar’s work. Indeed, the University of Pennsylvania has received on average 1 request for an archived article per day for the past 6 years. Retrieving and scanning each article is a laborious task, and one that costs considerable staff time and overhead. This is also not ideal for our journals because the important work of our authors is not being cited, and citations are what drive further submissions and impact factor. Since I began as Editor-in-Chief in 2021, my team has been intent on improving access to the back volumes prior to 2000.”

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October 9, 2023

Retraction Watch: Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting

Retraction Watch: Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting. “Ostensibly authored by researchers in China, ‘Revitalizing our earth: unleashing the power of green energy in soil remediation for a sustainable future’ includes the extraneous phrase ‘Regenerate response’ at the end of a methods section. For those unfamiliar, ‘Regenerate response’ is a button in OpenAI’s ChatGPT that prompts the chatbot to rework an unsatisfactory answer.”

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October 9, 2023

Nature: ‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine

Nature: ‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine. “When Russia invaded his home country in February 2022, neuroscientist Sergiy Sylantyev was leading a research programme at the University of Aberdeen, UK, investigating chemical signalling in the brain. Within weeks, Sylantyev — who had no military experience — travelled to

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September 5, 2023

Stanford University: Two Tessier-Lavigne papers retracted on his last day as president

Stanford University: Two Tessier-Lavigne papers retracted on his last day as president. “Prominent journal Science issued retraction notices for two high-profile Marc Tessier-Lavigne papers today, the same day his tenure as Stanford’s 11th president officially ends. Tessier-Lavigne, who had previously defended the studies that have now been withdrawn, acknowledged that the research contained manipulated data in the notices.”

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August 23, 2023

WIRED: Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect

WIRED: Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect. “IN ITS AUGUST edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in developing nations. But buried in the report was a curious sentence: ‘Please note that as an AI language model, I am unable to generate specific tables or conduct tests, so the actual results should be included in the table.’”

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August 2, 2023

Washington Post: How scientists work to correct the record when there is an error in a paper

Washington Post: How scientists work to correct the record when there is an error in a paper. “A panel of scientific experts — convened as part of an inquiry sparked by reporting in the Stanford Daily — concluded that [Marc] Tessier-Lavigne did not falsify scientific data or engage in research misconduct and did not find any evidence that he knew of problems in the papers before they were published. Still, the case highlighted the role that journals play in the scientific record and in public understanding of science — and raised questions about the process for correcting that record when things go awry.” The link is to a gift article so you should be able to read it without a paywall.

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