This blog is cross-posted from ASAPbio and reused under CC-BY 4.0 license. Please add any comments and annotations on the original post at asapbio.org/force2019-preprints-vision-dinner. Following a panel discussion about “Who will influence the success of preprints in biology and to what end?” at FORCE2019 (summarised here), we continued the discussion over dinner with […]
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Making research more useful: minimal reporting standards for life scientists
By Malcolm Macleod (@Maclomaclee) As researchers, we hope that our research findings are useful – that they inform future research, or lead to changes in policy or practice. Different research designs provide different levels of proof, with experimental evidence generally providing better evidence than observational studies. Even within research designs, there are factors which might […]
Registered Reports at BMJ Open Science: Making preclinical research match-fit for translation
By Chris Chambers, @chrisdc77 In 2015 the UK Academy Medical of Sciences published a landmark report documenting the current state of reproducibility in preclinical and biomedical research. The analysis makes for sobering reading. Preclinical science is littered with small, biased studies, underspecified procedures, and poor statistical methods, driven by perverse career incentives that prioritise quantity […]