Next up is Prof Emily Sena the personal chair of meta science and translational medicine. Specialising in taking research and translating it to be useful in a clinical setting. 🔬

Highlighting issues in translating research findings, eliminating biases & making work replicable.

Absolutely loved watching my amazing PhD supervisor Emily Sena give her inaugural lecture yesterday, the support and inspiration she provides is incredible ⭐️

Thank-you World Conf Research Integrity for inviting me to present on #PaperMills at their free #ResearchIntegrity Symposium 08 June 2023 in Athens, Greece. Other speakers include Lex Bouter Chris Graf Dan Barr Prof Lisa Bero Prof Ana Marušić... please register to join in person/ online:

Back from Oslo 🇳🇴 after a week of fruitful and fun work about software variability, resilience and reproducibility. We also talked a lot about brains, chess and floating points 😜💪
Great collaboration between Simula Research Lab and Inria as part of the #RIPOST associate team!

Join us at #ReproT on 17th April to learn more about how g-estimation can strengthen causal inference in longitudinal data:

Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/causal-infer…

All welcome! Tabea Schoeler ReproducibiliTea UK Reproducibility Network Swiss Reproducibility Network

When you have two papers rejected on the same day...
#AcademicTwitter

Excited about this event at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm on April 26 (in person):
Research Assessment for Transparency and Reproducibility - event with John Ioannidis
news.ki.se/calendar/resea…

👇👇👇 A talk that might be excellent 👌 METRICStanford next week

On April 18 (9:00 am PT, 18:00 pm CET), I'm delighted to give a virtual talk at the Metrics International Forum Stanford University. I'll be speaking on 'Paper mills: challenges, current understanding and unanswered questions'. Info about the link can be found here metrics.stanford.edu/metrics-intern…

Pier Laurenzi Florian Naudet Eiko Fried | @eikofried.bsky.social The pre is the control for the post, duh! Also terminology is so passè

Note also that serious adverse events (SAE) systematically underreported in literature. 2023 systematic review of esketamine trials found that compared to SAE recorded in ClinicalTrials.gov, 42% were not reported in scientific articles.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37185130/

Leading psychiatry 🗞️ labels a pre/post study as a controlled trial: Treating Bipolar Depression Using Psilocybin-Validity Threats Regarding Efficacy and Safety. ✉️ with ⁦Ioana A Cristea⁩ ⁦Eiko Fried | @eikofried.bsky.social⁩. Good to see that the 🗞️ made a correction. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38598200/

Having trouble recruiting for your randomized trial? Or even better, planning to avoid such trouble? This classic systematic survey tells you the empirical evidence of strategies to aid recruitment. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/2/e0…

“Industry gifts and money appear to be capable of inducing harmful prescribing” interesting ⁦Consilium Scientific⁩ presentation from ⁦Aaron Mitchell⁩

Pfledderer CD, von Klinggraeff L, Burkart S, da Silva Bandeira A, Lubans DR, Jago R, Okely AD, van Sluijs EMF, Ioannidis JPA et al.
Consolidated guidance for behavioral intervention pilot and feasibility studies. Pilot Feasibility Stud.
2024 Apr
…tfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Prescrire's ratings of new drugs in 2023
Prescrire International , Prescrire

▶️Bravo : 0 %
▶️A real advance: 0 %
▶️Offers an advantage: 8 %
▶️Possibly helpful: 16 %
▶️Nothing new: 60 %
▶️Judgement reserved: 8 %
▶️Not acceptable: 7 %
english.prescrire.org/en/81/168/6802…

'PCI Registered Reports (@[email protected]) is nothing short of a revolution in science...[It] has profound implications for our research community, and I believe it is one of the best learning experiences for all early career researchers'

psychologytoday.com/au/blog/psycho…

Ioana A Cristea Jumping in here, there is a long (long) history of suboptimal trials, and this risks joining them. A bit of Popper would go a long way.

Peer reviewers are turning to ChatGPT when writing referee reports, suggests a new study by Weixin Liang & colleagues. My latest for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158… Andrew Gray | @[email protected] Voice of Researchers

💡Diversity and Responsible Research and Innovation is a journal club organized by Berlin Institute of Health Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin that will focus on:
-'the role of research assessment and its reforms'
-'topics of diversity, equality and inclusion in science and academia'
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