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JAMA: "We are committed to working with authors to publish in accordance with the highest standards for scientific and editorial integrity. We will act flexibly, where appropriate, to ensure that censoring efforts will not silence the integrity of the scientific process"

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The entirety of UKRI annual grants, for all research in the UK on any subject, totals £8 billion. US NIH annual health research grants total £49 billion www.ukri.org/publications... www.nih.gov/ABOUT-NIH/WH... Recommend following @altnih4science.bsky.social

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Elisabeth Bik (@elisabethbik.bsky.social) organized a fund to finance the work of sleuths, including their training and travel expenses! Elisabeth used the full sum of the Einstein Foundation Award she received. It's an incredible honor to know and work with Elisabeth www.science.org/content/arti...

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Grants for infrastructure to share data 💪 "multi-year, dynamic, flexible capital and strategic support to help networks implement, upgrade, and scale their usage of open infrastructure to ultimately enable open and equitable sharing of data and content"

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"Tax-payers are overpaying for the level of scientific progress they receive, as much of the research output from the current system of federal grant funding is waste. Most academic researchers are incentivized to produce quantity over quality" Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org/sites/defaul...

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The amount these institutions are trying to save by making staff redundant is of the same order as the amount they hand over every year to academic publishers for journal subscriptions. Just saying.

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UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/ Call Open today, closes 10 April 2025 4:00pm UK time If you have the AI/ML skills and want to bolster the scale and impact of your […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Writers and aspiring writers! We're launching a writing fellowship on scientific progress, jointly hosted by Works in Progress and Asimov Press. We'd like you to produce richly detailed articles about a selected area of scientific progress. We'll pay, mentor, and give editorial feedback. Apply:

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Booking now open for FAIRS conference; 7-9th April, St Johns College, Oxford. www.sjcfairsmeeting.com Covering method for detecting academic fraud, scale of the problem, role of institutions/funders, unintended consequences, future directions.

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I'm a scientist turned comms pro. I do media training. The below is 100% accurate & if you'd like to try but don't know how, talk to me. I can help you understand how to approach local stations & what to expect. This is entirely pro bono; I just want to help! calendar.app.google/z4KR3xfXTc17...

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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

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"The medical and scientific communities must come together and stand up for this vision. In that spirit, The Lancet will be a focal point of accountability over the next 4 years, monitoring and reviewing the actions of the US Government and the consequences of its decisions for health."

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I’ve decided that explicitly teaching about how science funding works needs to be a part of my neurobiology lab course — it’s something I haven’t included before, and that was an oversight. Please send any teaching resources you might find helpful. I’ll share what I end up developing.

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"Health officials out of ideas and remarkably complacent" "senior officials do not seem to have ideas, or the drive, to match the level of change required, despite this being precisely the moment where such thinking is vital." committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...

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Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality. Deadline: 30 April 2025 - please share! 🌍 (1/2) ➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de #OpenScience #reproducibility

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I just saw that Jess Wade's Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Prize lecture is online. Well worth a watch. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Patricia Lockwood teasing philosophers 💖 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

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Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...

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Just a reminder that I sit on the American Statistical Association's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights. If you're a statistician, data scientist, or allied professional whose scientific freedom or human rights are threatened in connection with your scientific work, we're here for you.

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80 post thread by the former editor in chief of Science Detailing the rise of charging authors to publish, sister journals that profit off the brand, struggling with fake research, and $600k salaries

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How do philosophers do it?

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"But let's say that you sweat acetonitrile. You dissolve your entire 30g band, which unfortunately has the highest concentration of PFAS measured in this study."

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It has been a pleasure to work with @statesofprecarity.bsky.social on posters looking at the impact of fixed term contracts (FTC) in Geography (and beyond). 🔵Poster 1 - the challenges of FTC 🔵Poster 2 - How to support colleagues on FTC 🔵Poster 3 - Identity and difference and the impact of FTC

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Also in collaboration with @rmcelreath.bsky.social !!

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UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships £260k, 2 years "How AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethical, epistemic, and socioeconomic questions this raises How governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond" www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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"Queering data: the world of data implies fixed identities and truths - something incompatible with queer philosophies and histories. What can queer methods and practices tell us about resisting the world of data?" Speakers paid £150 plus travel expenses

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The course websites for my Spring 2025 causal inference and data visualization classes (both with #rstats) are live! evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com

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Great start to 2025 - announcement of the next NHS Hack Day in Cardiff on the 1st and 2nd of March. Come along and join in! @amcunningham.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social nhshackday.com

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A political win: saves universities millions per year and cuts for-profit companies out of our research process

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Including £2k prize for improving research culture: mentorship, good practice, and open science royalsociety.org/medals-and-p... #MetaScience

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"Science, which we may understand broadly as the natural, social and human sciences, depends on gatekeeping to maintain its epistemic credentials. It must keep out pretenders while remaining porous to outside-the-box insights and to criticisms of its own shibboleths."

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Fake or flawed studies are polluting systematic reviews in medicine and other fields - but how do you spot them? For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"At Neurosurgical Review, a Springer Nature title, letters, comments, and editorials comprised 58% of the total output from January to October—up from 9% last year." "in the preceding 2 months, three authors from one university in India had published “an astonishing 69 comments” in the journal."

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Health Data Engineering Lead (Python & JavaScript) Oxford Fixed term 1.5 Yr £56-64k (with room to negotiate)

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I love this so much. This is our culture changing for the better. If you get a grant from the NIH (largest biomedical funder in the world), they will make the resulting research freely, publicly available.

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New work in preprint! "Performance evaluation of predictive AI models to support medical decisions: Overview and guidance". Under the wings of the STRATOS initiative. But @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social said it better already 😜 arxiv.org/abs/2412.10288

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In Aberdeen this morning

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Let's make Bluesky the home of independent news. Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets. If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.

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Is there a good book recommendation or resource that tackles data or stats-related topics from a DEI-oriented lenses? I'm interested in responsible data work and storytelling rooted in cultural sensitivity, community, and countering harmful narratives perpetuated by society #dei #data #stats

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What's the moment of luck that's had the biggest impact for your academic career? For me, it was how I wouldn't have gotten a PhD fellowship if it wasn't for the 1st-ranked person declining, which meant that I was awarded the fellowship as 2nd-ranked applicant. That was my last shot at a PhD.

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"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024." Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year... www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

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Senior Data Scientist (Python) NHS Midlands Strategy Unit Remote £46 - £53k www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v6850769 On @chrisbeeley.bsky.social's great team #MedSky #AcademicJobs #Python #RStats #PhdChat

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One of my favourites any time of year! How to get reliable answers from data 👇

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Hello, Bluesky! We're a team in Aberdeen, Scotland, using collaborative research to support local health equity. Hoping this post can connect us to some curious minds. (photos from our recent conference)

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