Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in
2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we
publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
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OSI is a global collaborative effort between major
stakeholders in scholarly publishing to improve how research information gets
published, shared and accessed. The intiative is a 10-year series of...
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We’ve come a long way
when it comes to sharing and reviewing newly published research in the past few
years. The advent of services such as Altmetric (Altmetric.com, 2016a) has opened
up a new wind...
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There
is a fundamental problem of imprecise theories in many scientific disciplines. Trying to follow the
gravitational wave detection recently reported by the
LIGO consortium, it appears that in p...
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Many scientific disciplines find themselves in the midst of
a “crisis of confidence,” where key empirical findings turn out to reproduce at
an alarmingly low rate [e.g., 1,2,3,4]. The causes for th...
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It
is commonly accepted that there is a crisis of reproducibility in science
[1]. But how can this trend be reversed when bibliometrics such as the
h-index tend to encourage quantity and increment...
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‘There ain’t no rules around here!
We’re trying to accomplish something!’
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), American
Inventor
It is without any doubt that the scientific progress
of continued inno...
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If science were
perfect, there would be nothing left to explore or critique. So, irreproducible
science serves two functions: to scientists, it represents an opportunity to
improve or discover new ...
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To err is human. Scientists being human, they make
mistakes. Many if not most of the rules for doing science are designed to weed
out mistakes. Reproducibility and replicability are recogniz...
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Biomedical science
is recovering from an existential crisis. Recent reports have highlighted major
problems with the reproducibility and reliability of a diverse range of
scientific fields, includi...
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This was
originally published as two separate blog posts at my blog: part 1
& part 2.
If you’re following the world of academic publishing (and
the paywalls that keep researchers from doing t...
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