🧵The lack of direct law on academic harassment has been the main reason that institutions and other stakeholders didn’t robustly address this age-old issue, which causes significant mental and physical issues to the targets of #harassment and the people around them Morteza Mahmoudi, PhD

🧵Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results

The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct
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🧵 Fostering a culture that values the full range of talents and skills needed for research and innovation excellence is essential in our endeavour to deliver benefits for our economy, our public services, our environment, and our society, right across the UK and beyond Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser

Nominations for The John Maddox Prize - Standing Up For Science 2024 are now open. The nomination window will close on the 20th May 2024 (23:59 pm UTC 00:00)

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1. Why is publication of negative clinical trial data important?
2. Investigational drugs for the treatment of AD: what can we learn from negative trials?
3. Tracing investment in drug development for Alzheimer Alpha Tom Kodamullil Meemansa Sood Hofmann-Apitius 🇺🇦🇮🇱
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🧵Good practice means that you have a diverse inclusive board and C-suite, not just token but systematic, and it needs to be beyond just gender and ethnicity. It’s the different ways of thinking that matter
—Dame Kate Bingham kate bingham Coulter Partners
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Are Peer Review Reports Being -Ghost Written by Early Career Researchers for the Principal Investigator who Supervises them?

🧵 Impact factors have become controversial because they have been overused as a proxy for the quality of single papers. However, strictly applied they reflect only the interest a journal attracts, and may depend on a few “jackpot” papers that “go viral”
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🧵 Stephen Burrill had been a high-profile figure in the biotech world prior to his sudden fall from grace in 2014. His presentations at BIO I Am Biotech's annual meeting drew big crowds while he frequently prognosticated on the state of the industry
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🧵 A bullying survey in higher education by Guardian revealed that there have been 631 bullying complaints across 85 of 135 British universities associated with 300 people alleged to have bullied students & colleagues over a 5-year period between 2013-2018
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🧵 Disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui who was jailed in 2019 for genetically editing human babies is back in the lab - and claims he's 'proud' of his past work WilHunter_Journalism
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Elsevier requires about a million reviews annually. If Elsevier were to pay, say, $100 per review a laughably small sum for the effort, which researchers say takes a half day when done properly, that’s $100 million per year Ivan Oransky Adam Marcus STAT
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Important, but partial, as restricted to misconduct by students of other students.

Misconduct *by staff* of students & (junior) staff needs addressing. This is where most problems lie

#academia #academictwitter

The $450 question: Should scientific journals pay peer reviewers? Jeffrey Brainard Science Magazine
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🧵A British charity whose museum closed part of its 'racist' collection hires a diversity, equity & inclusion director who will earn £211,000 per year. At the same time the chief strategy officer, will earn considerably less-£177,830 per annum Kit Heren
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🧵 Wellcome Headlines

1) Leading health experts call on Wellcome to divest from fossil fuels

2) Sanger whistleblowers dispute findings that cleared management of bullying

3) How Wellcome executives got whaled by oldest trick in the fraud playbook
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The male-dominated leadership in academic medicine can contribute to an environment more conducive to sexual harassment. When it’s brought to light, there must be real consequences if the investigation concludes that it has indeed occurred The Cancer Letter
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A string of harassment cases at Chinese universities shows a system that is trying to address concerns and implement change, but still has some way to go
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Indian scientist's sacking spotlights sexual harassment

Researchers in India hope that institute's finding will motivate other academic organizations to confront harassment
TV Padma
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‘I was dying of shame’: Mexican science faces its #MeToo moment

Outpouring of stories on social media prompts fierce debate about sexual harassment and assault at Mexico’s research institutions

—Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Emiliano Mega @nature
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