Lovely piece from Holden Thorp. Its somehow surprising that it still needs saying among scientists that *all* diversity is beneficial to the group endeavour. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our new policy for research published by The BMJ requires authors to share analytic codes from all studies and data from all trials, Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH, Helen Macdonald, Theodora Bloom, Kamran Abbasi

Is silent outcome switching in clinical trials a form of research misconduct or just bad practice. Interesting and nuanced response from UKRIO ('it depends') transparimed.org/single-post/ou…

COVID’s preprint bump set to have lasting effect on research publishing , says Nature piece based on a survey published in PeerJ Publishing nature.com/articles/d4158…

Can't work out whether to be pleased at this 'movement' or depressed that it is still required in the 2020s nature.com/articles/d4158…

Do conflicts of interests matter when scientists and journalists talk about issues like ultra-processed foods? (TL;DR: I believe they do) bmj.com/content/383/bm…

Find out more about medRxiv and bioRxiv on all the socials now: connect.medrxiv.org/news/2023/10/1…

You publish no articles for months and then two come along at once... Delighted to share this piece written with Margaret Winker Dr. Sandersan (Sandy) Onie and James Tumwine on the future for #openscience , for The Lancet
200th anniversary (free; registration needed) shorturl.at/jpDEI

Happy to reminisce on 20 years of @plosbiology with Hemai Parthasarathy and Emma Ganley 💙: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… Kudos to the team past and present!

An ethical framework for human embryology with embryo models: when does a blob of cells become an embryo? Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

We will not be covering the new NHS workforce plan at The BMJ until it’s available. All we’ve seen is a press release with a record list of endorsements by college presidents and other worthies.

It's time for research training bingo! 🎰

Petra Boynton highlights the common lack of formal training of core parts of the research process.

#UKRIOevents

On research assessment exercises: 'Evaluation has the power to shape research culture for good and ill. It needs to be done well.' Hear hear! nature.com/articles/d4158…

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure : '[She] deserves to be remembered not as the victim of the double helix, but as an equal contributor to the solution of the structure.' nature.com/articles/d4158…

Criminalisation and HIV: have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful pandemic response? 'AIDS pandemic response was less successful in countries that criminalised same-sex acts, sex work and drug use... than in those that did not.' gh.bmj.com/content/6/8/e0…

Kudos to NIHR Research , apparently the only clinical trial funder to ensure the use of all 11 safeguards against research waste that are recommended by World Health Organization (WHO)

A nice summary from Cog Tales of a 'buffet' approach to open science, applying what you can, when you can, to the type of work you do. cogtales.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/the…

For the record, no BMJ journals have been de-listed from Web of Science for bad practice. One closed down and the other changed its name. There are other reasons that journals migrate in and out of WoS.

How covid-19 bolstered an already perverse publishing system bmj.com/content/380/bm…

The UK government’s attempt to frighten people into covid protective behaviours was at odds with its scientific advice. 'The government’s contempt for... the public led to a systematic set of failures ... It came from them ignoring their advisors.' bmj.com/content/380/bm…