0000-0002-8715-2896 Slice of PLOS: Psychedelics in the Lab and Clinic: Making Up for Lost Time post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above Nearly 50 years ago, psychiatrists lost access to one of the most promising toolsCategory Archives: plos biology
Slice of PLOS: Psychedelics in the Lab and Clinic: Making Up for Lost Time
0000-0002-8715-2896 Slice of PLOS: Psychedelics in the Lab and Clinic: Making Up for Lost Time post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above Nearly 50 years ago, psychiatrists lost access to one of the most promising toolsProtocols: The Devil is in the Details
0000-0002-8715-2896 Protocols: The Devil is in the Details Posted May 3, 2017 by Emma Ganley in Announcement, Biology, Data, Debate, Editorial policy, News, Open access, PLOS Biology, Policy, Publishing, Resources, Video post-info AddThis SharingPosted by in announcement, Biology, data, Debate, Editorial policy, featured, news, open access, plos biology, policy, Publishing, resources, video
Dear journals: Clean up your act. Regards, Concerned Biostatistician
Recently, a biostatistician sent an open letter to editors of 10 major science journals, urging them to pay more attention to common statistical problems with papers. Specifically, Romain-Daniel Gosselin, Founder and CEO of Biotelligences, which trains researchers in biostatistics, counted how many of 10 recent papers in each of the 10 journals contained two common […]
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Judge tosses case, saying that court-ordered retractions are not part of scientific publication
“Retractions are part and parcel of academic and scientific publication. Court ordered retractions are not.” So ends a judge’s September 30, 2016 opinion dismissing a case brought in 2014 by Andrew Mallon, a former Brown University postdoc, alleging that his advisor and former business partner, John Marshall, had published a paper in 2013 in PLOS Biology that should […]
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Researcher who sued to stop retractions gets his sixth
A sixth retraction has appeared for a diabetes researcher who previously sued a publisher to try to stop his papers from being retracted. Mario Saad‘s latest retraction, in PLOS Biology, stems from inadvertent duplications, according to the authors. Though an investigation at Saad’s institution — the University of Campinas in Brazil — found no evidence of misconduct, a critic […]
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“I shared:” Can tagging papers that share data boost the practice?
After a journal began tagging papers that adopted open science practices — such as sharing data and materials — a few other scientists may have been nudged into doing the same. In January 2014, Psychological Science began rewarding digital badges to authors who committed to open science practices such as sharing the data and materials. A study published […]
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Authors retract striking circadian clock finding after failing to replicate
The authors of a paper showing a “striking and unanticipated” relationship between light and temperature in regulating circadian rhythms are retracting it when the results couldn’t be replicated. After being contacted by another group who couldn’t reproduce the data, the authors failed to, as well. They “have absolutely no explanation for the discrepancies with the original […]
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Popular paper by famous longevity researcher gets mega-correction
A highly cited paper by a well-known scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies longevity could have aged better: The ten-year-old paper has earned its second correction. It’s one of multiple papers by lead author Leonard Guarente that have been questioned on PubPeer. Guarente has already retracted one, and plans to address another. Guarente’s work […]
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190 million years of tetrapod biodiversity
Tetrapod is the name given to any vertebrate animal with four (tetra) legs (pod). There are more than 30,000 living species of tetrapod known today, and this includes many of the animals we are familiarSlice of PLOS: The Beauty of Butterflies
AddThis Sharing Buttons above Still life with peaches and grapes (detail) by Abraham van Calraet c.1680 (via Wikimedia Commons) Butterflies’ special place in human culture stems from the fact that they have used their wings