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In science, a small revolution is taking place: the rise of registered reports. After a number of scandals, social scientists decided that their field had to be changed.

In science, a small revolution is taking place: the rise of registered reports

One of their assets is a concept called ‘registered reports’. But not everybody is convinced of its value. Meet cognitive neuroscientist Chris Chambers. When he started his academic career in 1999 at Monash University in Australia, he imagined science being a pursuit of objective truth. Results of experiments and findings would be very important but whether they would be exciting or not wouldn’t determine whether one would be a good scientist or not.

Quite soon after he started his PhD he learned that reality is different. DEF CON® 26 Hacking Conference Speakers. Detecting Blue Team Research Through Targeted Ads Saturday at 13:30 in Track 2 20 minutes | 0x200b Hacker When my implant gets discovered how will I know?

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Did the implant stop responding for some benign reason or is the IR team responding? With any luck they'll upload the sample somewhere public so I can find it, but what if I can find out if they start looking for specific bread crumbles in public data sources? 0x200b I'm just a Security researcher who's always using tools in unintended ways. Hacking PLCs and Causing Havoc on Critical Infrastructures Saturday at 11:00 in 101 Track, Flamingo 45 minutes | Demo, Exploit Thiago Alves Ph.D. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are devices used on a variety of industrial plants, from small factories to critical infrastructures like nuclear power plants, dams and wastewater systems. Thiago Alves Thiago Alves received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the"Pontifícia Universidade Católica" (PUC) in 2013. Svea Eckert sur Twitter : "Thank you #defcon crowd for listening and sharing your ideas and stories regarding our research. That was awesome. @tillkrause @5uggy @ph_reporterpool #fakesciencefactories #PredatoryPublishing #ndrwdrsz…

Our "Inside the fake science factory. Conflict of interest. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent of the occurrence of impropriety.

Conflict of interest

Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs. A widely used definition is: "A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest. "[1] Primary interest refers to the principal goals of the profession or activity, such as the protection of clients, the health of patients, the integrity of research, and the duties of public office. Secondary interest includes not only financial gain but also such motives as the desire for professional advancement and the wish to do favours for family and friends, but conflict of interest rules usually focus on financial relationships because they are relatively more objective, fungible, and quantifiable. ARD: Fake Science - Die Lügenmacher. ARD: Fake Science [ ENGLISH UNDERTITLED ] VIDEO.

MediathekViewWeb. Svea Eckert (@sveckert) Peter Hornung (@ph_reporterpool) Till Krause (@tillkrause) Fake Science - Wissenschaft auf Abwegen. Probleme mit Fake Science auch an der Saar-Uni (19.07.2018) 26 Hacking Conference Speakers. Privacy settings. Medisch onderzoek in Nederland loopt vast: Rathenau Instituut. Het medisch onderzoek in Nederland dreigt vast te lopen.

medisch onderzoek in Nederland loopt vast: Rathenau Instituut

Dat blijkt uit een serie groepsinterviews die het Rathenau Instituut hield onder medisch onderzoekers in alle fasen van hun carrière. Vooral de ongeschreven regel dat promovendi minimaal vier artikelen moeten publiceren, zorgt voor grote druk bij alle betrokkenen. Er is amper tijd om de opgedane kennis toe te passen in de kliniek. Het Rathenau Instituut hield twaalf groepsgesprekken over publicatiedruk met in totaal 78 promovendi, postdocs, docenten en hoogleraren van vier Nederlandse universitair medische centra. Alle ondervraagden verzuchtten dat er naast het opstellen, reviewen en citeren van artikelen steeds minder ruimte is om artikelen te lezen en opgedane kennis in te zetten voor het klinische werk.

De ondervraagden voelen zich niet bij machte om iets te veranderen aan het systeem. 'Publicatiedruk bedreigt medische wetenschap' - Nieuws.nl. Een publicatie in een wetenschappelijk, medisch tijdschrift is voor medische wetenschappers de hoofdbeloning, zeker als het om een gerenommeerd blad gaat.

'Publicatiedruk bedreigt medische wetenschap' - Nieuws.nl

Het is zelfs een ongeschreven regel dat promovendi minimaal vier artikelen moeten publiceren. EM: 'Stress en cynisme' bij onderzoekers medische wetenschap. Er moet snel iets veranderen aan de publicatiecultuur in de medische wetenschappen, vindt het Rathenau Instituut.

EM: 'Stress en cynisme' bij onderzoekers medische wetenschap

Publish or perish slaat de klok in medische wetenschap. ‘We willen topprestaties mogelijk maken’ 28 april 2015 11.34 door Jimmy Tigges Aantal keer bekeken: 92 WEB ONLY De Damen Raceroei Regatta op de Willem-Alexanderbaan in de Eendragtspolder werd twee jaar geleden door Laga opgezet 'om de roeiwereld op zijn kop te zetten'.

‘We willen topprestaties mogelijk maken’

Retractions up tenfold - 20 AUGUST 2009. ‘Publish or perish’ factor in withdrawal of science papers.

Retractions up tenfold - 20 AUGUST 2009

Zoe Corbyn reports The rate at which scientific journal articles are being retracted has increased roughly tenfold over the past two decades, an exclusive analysis for Times Higher Education reveals. Retractions in the scientific literature: is the incidence of research fraud increasing? R Grant Steen 2010. A painful remedy - editorial Nature 2010. Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications Ferric C. Fanga , R. Grant Steen , Arturo Casadevall 2012. Tenfold increase in scientific research papers retracted for fraud. Toename wetenschapsfraude niet bewezen - Kees Schuyt. Conclusies over een mogelijke toename van fraude in de wetenschap kunnen alleen getrokken worden na gedegen onderzoek, betoogt Kees Schuyt.

Toename wetenschapsfraude niet bewezen - Kees Schuyt

Stunner: Researchers retract paper because company complains it’s hurting profits. Scientific publishing: The inside track. Maxwell MacKenzie/National Academy of Sciences.

Scientific publishing: The inside track

30 ways academic book publishers add value to the process of research communication. What exactly do book publishers bring to the table when academics look to reach wider audiences? Francine O’Sullivan reflects on the shifting priorities of academic book publishers in the digital age and the need to ensure added value to the overall process. She provides a list of things an author or editor should expect a high quality academic book publisher to do in order to help disseminate research, maximise citations and protect authors’ interests.

The apparatus of research assessment is driven by the academic publishing industry and has become entirely self-serving. Peer review may be favoured as the best measure of scientific assessment ahead of the REF, but can it be properly implemented? Peter Coles does the maths on what the Physics panel face and finds there simply won’t be enough time to do what the REF administrators claim. Rather, closed-access bibliometrics will have to be substituted at the expense of legitimate assessment of outputs. What I want to do first of all is to draw attention to a very nice blog post by a certain Professor Moriarty who, in case you did not realise it, dragged himself away from his hiding place beneath the Reichenbach Falls and started a new life as Professor of Physics at Nottingham University.

A modest proposal to solve the problem of peer review: Treat evaluation as an in-house publishing function. Peer review is under constant scrutiny due to its failure to adapt to a more effective model in the digital age. Steve Fuller argues that academic evaluation proceeds much too slowly for the quite simple reason that academics are valued mainly for being productive and not evaluative. Open access: The true cost of science publishing. Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is that the scientific community carries out peer review — a major part of scholarly publishing — for free, yet subscription-journal publishers charge billions of dollars per year, all told, for scientists to read the final product.

“It's a ridiculous transaction,” he says. Eisen, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that scientists can get much better value by publishing in open-access journals, which make articles free for everyone to read and which recoup their costs by charging authors or funders. The MLA Tells It Like It Is. "We are faced with an unsustainable reality," states the Modern Language Association’s long-awaited report on doctoral study in literature and languages. That reality includes a median time-to-degree of nine years and a weak academic job market that places a deplorably low percentage of Ph.D.’s in tenure-track professorships, often after years of postdoctoral purgatory.

There are many positive things to say about this report, but let’s start with the fact that the MLA is saying things that need to be said by the MLA.

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Corporate revolving door in editorial board of elsevier. Resignations threat over Taylor & Francis ‘censorship’ Editorial board of journal could quit after debate on publishing suffers delay Source: Alamy Silence! Publication delays and unexplained editing have ‘destroyed trust’ between the journal editors and Taylor & Francis A journal’s editorial board has been left on the brink of resignation after an eight-month standoff with its publisher Taylor & Francis over the publication of a debate on academic publishing and the profits made by major firms. The debate, in the journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, was due to appear last September, but was delayed by Taylor & Francis and published only at the end of last month.

Its “proposition” paper, “Publisher, be damned!

?a peer reviewer selection process based on nepotism?

Corporate confidentiality agreements & public scientific research / graduation theses / afstudeerscripties. Hacking peer review publication process. Editor in chief steps down after being found plagiarizing in her. Public_uni : Bias in favour of men in peer... Securing money for research is hard for everyone - but then there's the sexism. Female academics have to be twice as productive as men to be regarded as equally competent. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Have you recently been denied promotion due to lack of research grant money? If so, join the club. Science, Nature, Cell as luxury journals distorting science proc.

Blurring Research Labs Universities & Corporations

Blurring research and advertising entertainment. Blurring treatment / marketing / entertainment spaces. Blurring research and fundraising / advertising. Blurring research & therapeutic space. Ghostwriting - getting closer to the test tube. Unethical trials. News from the University. Corrupt Medicine and Science. Blurring research and policy. BP. ResearchLabScienceCentre mashup's. From research institute to cake bakery. "we never let the committee assess individuals" Peer review: how to get it right – 10 tips. The Guardian view on the end of the peer review.

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Theft. Data massage. Publish òr perish. Open Access versus public closed gardens of Academic Publishers. Springer , IEEE to peer review or not to peer review. Fake science journals by Elsevier-Merck. The 3 dangers of publishing in “megajournals”–and how you can avoid them. You like the idea of “megajournals”–online-only, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only on whether it is scientifically sound. You get that PLOS ONE, PeerJ and others offer a path to a more efficient, faster, more open scholarly publishing world. But you’re not publishing there. Because you’ve heard rumors that they’re not peer reviewed, or that they’re “peer-review lite” journals. You’re concerned they’re journals of last resort, article dumping grounds. You’re worried your co-authors will balk, that your work won’t be read, or that your CV will look bad.

Well, you’re not the only one. But they don’t have to. 1. Sometimes wanting to publish somewhere yourself isn’t enough–you’ve got to convince skeptical co-authors (or advisors!). Megajournals publish prestigious science Megajournals aren’t for losers: top scientists, including Nobelists, publish there. Fraud in science: a plea for a new culture in research. Fraud in science: a plea for a new culture in research. ‘Dit bericht is mede mogelijk gemaakt door de UvA’ S.C. (Sophie) Boerman MSc. DARE.

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90% unread ? ReimagineReview – A registry of platforms and experiments innovating around peer review. Univers - Gezocht: een goed alternatief voor peer review. Alleen VVD stemt tegen onderzoek naar onderwijsbudget. Dirk Smeesters - Erasmus University Rotterdam. Annemie Schuerwegh - LUMC - Leiden Universitair Medische Centrum. Maria Fousteri LUMC onder supervisie van Prof.dr. L.H.F. Mullenders. De Vonk - Tennekes / Mineau. James E. Hunton - Erasmus University Rotterdam. ICEF IV 4th International Conference on Engineering and Formal Sciences will be held in UvA Amsterdam on 14-15 December 2018.

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