False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/24/false-claims-in-a-published-no-corrections-no-consequences-welcome-to-the-business-school/?unapproved=2412259&moderation-hash=80fae7fdc82aee50eb3cb14cd8c0b080#comment-2412259

#HackerNews #FalseClaims #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics #PublishingIssues #Consequences

The webinar series of our #NFDI Section #ELSA continues on 25 March, 4 p.m. with Maximilian Frank (LMU Munich):

“Ethics and data reuse – How researchers are considering data sharing in their research ethics proposals.”

ℹ️ Learn about the access-class concept, its impact on data sharing, and common pitfalls in ethics forms.

➡️ https://www.nfdi.de/section-elsa/webinar-series-research-ethics/

#FDM #RDM #ResearchEthics #OpenScience

Gaming the peer review system: Evidence for a review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/12/gaming-the-peer-review-system-evidence-for-a-review-mill-in-medicine-highlights-the-need-to-ensure-reviewer-integrity/

#BiomedicalResearch #DorothyVMBishop #MngelesOviedoGarca #PeerReview #RenAquarius #ResearchEthics #ReviewMills #ScientificCommunication

Using chatbots to draft proposals for major funding agencies seems to improve funding rates, but makes projects less innovative.
Is AI on track to narrow scientific exploration?

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00369-3

#AIinScience #funding #ResearchEthics #Innovation #grantwriting

The webinar series of our #NFDI Section #ELSA will continue on 4 March at 4 p.m. with a talk by Alexandra Bendixen (TU Chemnitz) about “Ethical aspects of human-participant research data collection: The open-source ‘#Ethiktool’ software”.

ℹ️ The tool, developed based on long-standing ethics committee work, allows researchers to generate an ethics application with all information and required documents.

➡️ Further information: https://www.nfdi.de/section-elsa/webinar-series-research-ethics/

#fdm #rdm #researchethics

I never used Twitter for research, but this was still a very interesting read about a tool that was quite important in my life for a while
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517261419333

"calls for open data and the FAIRness of research can only work when possible legal constraints are considered and resolved"

#WeekendRead #ResearchEthics