What does the ideal education in publication intergrity look like? How are students and ECRs supposed to learn how to identify unreliable research? @pranujanp.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AIMOS2025
Speaker at the pedestal wearing a t-short with the link to TheNewStatistics website.
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Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin'
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
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Speaker at the lectern
Next: Lisa Bero with: 'Hijacking research integrity: What can possibly go wrong and how can we fix it?'
In certain companies, authors who raise integrity issues can be 'discredited'.
LB's research has been 'monitored by Coca-Cola
www.smh.com.au/technology/c...
#IRICSydney
Slide showing which countries have national research integrity offices
Speaker at the lectern
Next up: David Vaux with "An Office for Research Integrity in Australia – What are the barriers?"
* 23 European countries and 6 others have offices for research integrity.
* Australia has a guide with principles and responsibilities but institutions essentially investigate themselves.
#IRICSydney
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The speaker at the lectern
Next up, Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social with "Paper Mills, Fraud and More"
Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals.
Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals.
#IRICSydney
@pranujanp.bsky.social leading the discussion
Next, a general discussion "What is needed?",
led by Pranujan Pathmendra @pranujanp.bsky.social
* Should we rewrite the Guide (Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research)?
David Vaux: Yes! It has been rewritten several times, but it has only gotten worse - too vague.
#IRICSydney
And: Verification of nucleotide sequence reagent identities in original publications in high impact factor cancer research journals
(CC: @pranujanp.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social )
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Huge congratulations to @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for receiving the David Vaux award! I feel very lucky to be on a team led by such an amazing and accomplished woman
Extremely thrilled to congratulate @jabyrnesci.bsky.social on achieving this prestigious award. She has been an amazing champion and role model in pursuing research integrity and ensuring the scientific literature remains #reliable and #trustworthy!!!
www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...
Great new article by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and Adrian Barnett comparing problematic research articles to broken laboratory equipment. A faulty freezer would be flagged immediately, yet it can take years to retract fatally flawed studies. How can we incentivise correction?
#MetaROR launch at #AIMOS2024 @aimosinc.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social @jameswilsdon.bsky.social #metascience It's the content that counts!
Day 2 of COPE's #PublicationIntegrityWeek 🚨started with a robust discussion about role of all stakeholders in ensuring integrity. Interesting points about educating researchers & changing incentives, but at times, speakers seemed to blame each other. All stakeholders need to take responsibility!
A fantastic and very insightful plenary by @barbobrien.bsky.social at #AIMOS2024! Whether it's wrongful convictions or academia, common obstacles to preventing, detecting, and correcting errors remain. #metaresearch
Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer...
I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...
Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻
#AIMOS2024 | Join us for the launch of MetaROR: A new peer review platform for metaresearch
A great plenary at #AIMOS2024 on the state of #metascience, and how it has expanded and diversified over the past 5 years. An exciting place to work in:)
James Wilson’s plenary:
1. I prefer “metaresearch” to “metascience”. Better describes full range of subject matter.
2. Discipline is older than a century! Francesco Redi in the 17thC was obsessed with replicating rather than creating new experiments.
3. Good joke about parking spaces.
#AIMOS2024
7500 light-years away from us
Well, my first post here and got the science emoji wrong... trying again 🧪
Larry is the world’s most highly cited #cat (132 #citations vs Willard’s 107). These were entirely fabricated, by Reese Richardson and Nick Wise. The duo wanted to show how shady companies exploit #GoogleScholar to sell fake #metrics #scholarypublishing #academia reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/e...
A Hungarian PhD student is invited to collaborate on papers whilst at a conference, then it all gets out of hand.
An impressive article by Gábor Stöckert building on my recent investigation into an Iraqi papermill.
telex.hu/komplex/2024...
IT'S TIME: United2Act is moving to do something about the paper mill problem www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"“Paper milling isn’t an operation, it isn’t an organization: it’s a culture,” says data scientist Adam Day, who ... has developed a detection tool called The Papermill Alarm."
