Few in history have taken actions that caused millions of deaths and cost trillions of dollars.

EcoHealth's reckless bioweapons-agents-discovery research and bioweapons-agents-enhancement research likely caused 20 million deaths and cost 25 trillion dollars.

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars a year on research projects — but few journalists monitor and report on research fraud and errors.

We’re hosting a webinar with The Journalist's Resource to help you get started.

🗓️ April 25 ire.org/event/investig…

ORI released a new notice of funding opportunity announcement for conferences related to ensuring the integrity and reliability of PHS-funded research.
Read the full announcement here: ow.ly/y0Q250Qw5Xr
#ResearchFunding #FundingOpportunity

Tickets are now on sale for the Central England Bird Ringing and Nest Recording Conference. Great speakers, workshops, networking. And pizza!

The conference is organised by West Midlands Ringing Group in partnership with BTO

To book your place go to westmidlandsringinggroup.co.uk/ringing-confer…

#CEBRConf

💬 'Ultimately, the source of the attainment gap is the much wider societal issue of socioeconomic inequality and poverty.'

The gap in attainment between richer and poorer students has been widening.

A national strategy to close it is urgently needed 👇

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Unpopular topic- authorship conflicts. Did U know 'One who fraudulently passes off the work of others as their own -called a plagiarist' Academic Chatter™ Ashley Ruba, PhD PhDRant Life After My Ph.D. PhD Voice - Independently Run Ph.D. hardtalk PostdocVoice PostGrad Modern Slavery PostPhDRoad spread the word

A journal from within Springer Nature tells me that it is NOT possible (technically?) to remove me from reviewing one of their papers, after I had spotted a conflict-of-interest...

Predatory practices?

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wonderfulhighered.com/2024/03/16/roc…

The new Triticum aestivum Next Generation’ array (TaNG) was developed University of Bristol Biological Sciences using a novel haplotype optimization approach & provides improved distribution of SNPs for both GWAS and copy number variation analysis.
New paper out now Plant Biotechnology Journal
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

One of the most criticized aspects of the current publishing scheme, is that academics do pretty much all the work for free and publishers get the money.

Why don't people just charge a fee when contacted by a publisher to referee an article?
academia.stackexchange.com/questions/6819…

My book on whistleblowers in medical research, The Occasional Human Sacrifice, will be published by W. W. Norton & Company on May 14, 2024.

This short book will answer common questions about #academic #bullying so you can #recognize it when you see it, know what to do about it, and understand how to #protect #yourself and #others .
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The University of Bristol and the craft cider maker Sandford Orchards will receive the genotype of apples from rare and important orchards across England and specifically look at “survivor varieties” 🍎 🍏 theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

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