Really thrilled to have the opportunity to help lead Edinburgh Neuroscience alongside the fantastic Malcolm Macleod #FBPE and looking forward to getting stuck in 👍

(and yes, it's awesome to be the first woman in the role!)

🥁🤩 Please retweet. Super happy to announce the Inserm workshop 'METHODS IN META-RESEARCH: HOW TO IMPROVE RESEARCH PRACTICE' organised by Isabelle BOUTRON, me, and Philippe Ravaud with a stellar team of speakers: J Ioannidis, Malcolm Macleod #FBPE Ulrich Dirnagl (@[email protected]) Carl Moons, Roland Roberts...

I was recently invited to a meeting on how to address publication bias. I can’t attend (my sisters wedding 🥰) but that’s ok because they can follow this series of events as an example of the problem and of effective handling. Proud of PCI Registered Reports (@[email protected])

Come join us Edinburgh Neuroscience! The Wellcome-funded #PhD in Translational #Neuroscience is recruiting for its final🥲 cohort.

Generous funding! lots of flexibility in designing your project! exceptionally supportive programme! 11/10

More info: t.ly/lAGex #phdchat

A big thanks to Inge Stegeman and Tony Ross-Hellauer for facilitating such an open and collaborative culture. iRISE, TIER2 and OSIRIS have spent the day discussing synergies, identifying opportunities and getting to know each other! Exciting #reproducibility work to come!

My partner in crime, Sarah McCann, and I looking serious at the iRISE kick-off…..lots of exciting work is coming soon (tech issues withstanding)! Photo credit Hanno Würbel

This Friday join myself and Claire Durrant for a webinar introducing AD-SOLES - a free online platform harnessing #AI to curate the latest research in #Alzheimers animal models (>30,000 publications📚) UK Dementia Research Institute Alzheimer's Research UK CAMARADES
Register 👇 events.zoom.us/ev/Aiz0C48VUDL…

And happy to introduce project co-lead, Prof. Emily Sena, University of Edinburgh

“iRISE has the potential to make a significant contribution to elevating the quality, reliability & reusability of scientific evidence while fostering a positive research culture” said Prof. Sena

Our preprint describing AD SOLES - a systematic online living evidence summary of animal research in #AlzheimersDisease - is now up at 10.31222/osf.io/s5gf9, with Kaitlyn Hair, Emily Sena, Emma Wilson and Olenka Maksym - all feedback welcome 🙏

Loved this chat….let’s hope it aged well 🫣

🔬 5% of TIA/stroke RCTs at high risk of selective outcome reporting bias (cf. 14% in all RCTs), but 17% at risk of 'spin bias' (upgrading/downgrading).
There's no room for complacency!
🙏 MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Emily Sena
🏆 Edinburgh Medical School BMedSci project journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Any words of wisdom, people?

Suffering from this. Put babe’s name down on 7 nurseries when he was just a few weeks old, about to turn 1 and still stuck 😩. The system isn’t working and without grandparent support we’d be up a creek without a paddle. bbc.co.uk/news/education…

We can’t wait for #BINW23 . , and to help get you ready, we’ve got a few announcements!!!

1️⃣ Registration is LIVE! Register here to get access to all #BINW23 events sent straight in your inbox. blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5325435
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Very privileged to have our #ALS work University of Aberdeen showcased Scottish Parliament today for British Neuroscience Association #NeuroscienceMatters , as 1/4 case studies of exemplary #neuroscience research in Scotland alongside Chris Henstridge, Emily Sena, @CAMRADES! Many thanks to MND Scotland for support 🙏

Wow…..I’m at the Playfair Library for Dr. Debora Kayembe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿’s The University of Edinburgh rectorial installation and it’s great to see the African representation. So much colour 🧡

Back at work and wading through my inbox…..so many of the 1000s of emails are people following up requests that I haven’t replied to. My out of office said I was on maternity leave but folk just kept sending the same requests….over and over 😩

And Kaitlyn Hair is up talking about her fantastic work on Systematic Online Evidence Summaries (SOLES).
The better half of the #Metascience2023 CAMARADES sandwich.

So, even after almost a year off, “top tier journals” is a variable we’re still on?! - as a marker of study quality #Metascience2023

New blog post: Who’s afraid of open science? Transparency as a threat to unearned prestige.

Research evaluation is a rigged game; some researchers, and journals, get a free ride. Transparency helps close the loopholes to unearned prestige.

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