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It's time for research training bingo! 🎰 Petra Boynton highlights the common lack of formal training of core parts of the research process. #UKRIOevents

We will not be covering the new NHS workforce plan at The BMJ until it’s available. All we’ve seen is a press release with a record list of endorsements by college presidents and other worthies.

An ethical framework for human embryology with embryo models: when does a blob of cells become an embryo? Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Happy to reminisce on 20 years of @plosbiology with Hemai Parthasarathy and Emma Ganley 💙: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… Kudos to the team past and present!

You publish no articles for months and then two come along at once... Delighted to share this piece written with Margaret Winker Dr. Sandersan (Sandy) Onie and James Tumwine on the future for #openscience, for The Lancet 200th anniversary (free; registration needed) shorturl.at/jpDEI

Find out more about medRxiv and bioRxiv on all the socials now: connect.medrxiv.org/news/2023/10/1…

Do conflicts of interests matter when scientists and journalists talk about issues like ultra-processed foods? (TL;DR: I believe they do) bmj.com/content/383/bm…

Can't work out whether to be pleased at this 'movement' or depressed that it is still required in the 2020s nature.com/articles/d4158…

COVID’s preprint bump set to have lasting effect on research publishing , says Nature piece based on a survey published in PeerJ Publishing nature.com/articles/d4158…

Is silent outcome switching in clinical trials a form of research misconduct or just bad practice. Interesting and nuanced response from UKRIO ("it depends") transparimed.org/single-post/ou…

Our new policy for research published by The BMJ requires authors to share analytic codes from all studies and data from all trials, Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH, Helen Macdonald, Theodora Bloom, Kamran Abbasi

Lovely piece from Holden Thorp. Its somehow surprising that it still needs saying among scientists that *all* diversity is beneficial to the group endeavour. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Very disappointing to see that Nature published Google DeepMind's protein folding paper with fanfare but without requiring code availability retractionwatch.com/2024/05/14/nat…

I rather like this idea of trying out a 'bug bounty' for those who find errors in published papers. Might it reverse the tendency to keep quiet about errors found, and reward professional error spotters? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Frustrating to rad my colleague Abi Rimmer 's experience navigating breastfeeding through cancer treatment. Years ago leaflets from NCT and others that said keep breastfeeding whatever happens to you: where is their practical support when needed?bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Fascinating move here by dating app Grindr, hiring Tom Daschle’s firm to lobby on HIV prevention and IVF. The politicisation of personal choice is in full swing across the Atlantic! statnews.com/2024/07/29/lgb… via STAT

Twenty years of image manipulation screening has got us ... where? Mike Rossner reflects. retractionwatch.com/2024/08/12/wha…

The PRC10 Abstract submission site is now open! Submit by Jan 31, 2025 at abstracts.peerreviewcongress.org Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results are given priority. Learn more at peerreviewcongress.org JAMA Network The BMJ METRICStanford

Scary to see this, whether it is unneeded over-reaction or appropriate obeisance to the new US administration. statnews.com/2025/02/03/tru…

In case you're intrested in where The BMJ stands on Presidential Executive Orders banning certain language from reseatch communications bmj.com/content/388/bm… Kamran Abbasi Jocalyn Clark