I see that completing my #researchfish submission requires me to agree that Elsevier can send me targeted advertisements, can invite me to submit or review manuscripts. Who on earth at UK Research and Innovation agreed to that?

Academia is: 5% research 5% teaching 20% meetings 20% EMAILS! 5% Reformatting manuscripts 5% Requesting password reminders 10% filling in forms 5% looking for forms/guidance 'on sharepoint' 5% using Google to find forms/guidance on your uni website 20% moaning about academia

Came and do your doctorate with us at Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science working with OpenSAFELY FDAAA TrialsTracker OpenPrescribing on epidemiology, data science, privacy engineering, research software engineering, data for quality improvement, data management, and the rest! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/02/c…

"Who fakes cancer research? Apparently, lots of people," writes Kelsey Piper at Vox. vox.com/future-perfect…

If you missed an excellent talk by Adriane Fugh-Berman PharmedOut on how Industry invents diseases, watch here youtu.be/hRNK-BMX7s8?si… Kim Witczak 💜 Susan Bewley Kevin Knopf Lawrence Lynn KFF Health News HealthSense Margaret McCartney RIOT Science Club

Meanwhile, inside the box, Schrödinger's cat plans its revenge.

In case you didn't see it yet: I'm hiring a postdoc to work on improving reproducibility in research. Application deadline March 20: ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Nominations are open for the 2024 #MaddoxPrize for standing up for science. Nominate someone who has who spoken out for sound science and evidence, and made change happen in public discourse, opinion or policy: nature.com/immersive/madd… Springer Nature pic.x.com/iyQqdNr4KZ

Nice simple blog on basic #Statistics sensible-med.com/p/doing-statis… @Students4BE

Is extending life by weeks worth the toll some cancer drugs take? Doctors push for 'common-sense oncology' ⁦Vinay Prasad MD MPH⁩ flip.it/-jXHPq

And here it is, the $SAVA mess Cassava Sciences science.org/content/articl…

Today, the UKRN’s OR4 project releases a new report that describes the UK landscape of responsible researcher assessment, with a particular focus on open research. Led by Robert Darby from the University of Reading. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Exciting News! The iRISE Consortium is launching a pioneering intervention study to enhance research reproducibility through computational methods, led by Gustav Nilsonne. Stay tuned for updates as we team up with top academic journals to execute our protocol.

“Essentially, the FDA said, ‘You can’t trust any of this.’ But the company used the results” -> Footnote: far too few academics file #FOIA requests science.org/content/articl… Charles Piller Daniel Strech

No position on this but it is definitely worth a read Sense about Science @hildabast On Think Tanks

How we used to give lectures. Slides in a filing cabinet holder. I have 100s of them, soon to be binned. These are about nonlinear curve fitting.

Poor use of AI application in health systems youtube.com/watch?v=40EfNb… Health Action International

SURVEY: Sharing and accessing individual patient data from clinical trials -> awareness -> real-world impact transparimed.org/single-post/su… #clinicaltrials #opendata

And... we have a breakdown of the compromise amendments here: including orphan drugs, launch mechanism, transferable exclusivity voucher and HERA in the ECDC (!?) pro.politico.eu/news/177100