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Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education | FULL TEXT
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education | FULL TEXT
FULL TEXT. Requiring undergraduate students to perform what is termed original research for their thesis, an investigation that cannot constitute a replication of an existing study, is a failed opportunity for science and education, argues Daniel Quintana.
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education
Replication Studies for Undergraduate Theses to Improve Science and Education
Requiring undergraduate students to perform what is termed original research for their thesis, an investigation that cannot constitute a replication of an existing study, is a failed opportunity for science and education.
Automated Detection of Poor-quality Data: Case Studies in Healthcare
The detection and removal of poor-quality data in a training set is crucial to achieve high-performing AI models. In healthcare, data can be inherently poor-quality due to uncertainty or subjectivity, but as is often the case, the requirement for data privacy restricts AI practitioners from accessing raw training data, meaning manual visual verification of private patient data is not possible. Here we describe a novel method for automated identification of poor-quality data, called Untrainable Data Cleansing. This method is shown to have numerous benefits including protection of private patient data; improvement in AI generalizability; reduction in time, cost, and data needed for training; all while offering a truer reporting of AI performance itself. Additionally, results show that Untrainable Data Cleansing could be useful as a triage tool to identify difficult clinical cases that may warrant in-depth evaluation or additional testing to support a diagnosis.
Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape
Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape
When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities.
Scientists' Egos Are Key Barrier to Progress, Says Covid Vaccine Pioneer
Prof Katalin Karikó of BioNTech says she endured decades of scepticism over her work on mRNA vaccines.
We Need Authoritarian-proof Higher Education Models
Following the military coup, Burmese faculty and students fear annihilation of a budding modern higher education system, says Kyaw Moe Tun.
Revisiting: Theory of the E-book
Joe Esposito revisits his 2012 post on the unstated theory of the e-book, which assumes that a book consists only of its text and can be manipulated without regard to the nature and circumstances of its creation.
The Dawn of the Age of Duplicate Peer Review
Will the plethora review options for preprints usher in a new age of duplicate peer review?
Face Masks for COVID Pass Their Largest Test Yet
A rigorous study finds that surgical masks are highly protective, but cloth masks fall short.
Banning Preprints from Grant Applications Penalises Researchers for Being Up-to-date
Banning Preprints from Grant Applications Penalises Researchers for Being Up-to-date
A sudden rule change by the Australian Research Council-to ban grant applications that cite preprint material-has deemed 32 early and mid-career researchers ineligible to receive critical funding.
No Revolution: COVID-19 Boosted Open Access, but Preprints Are Only a Fraction of Pandemic Papers
No Revolution: COVID-19 Boosted Open Access, but Preprints Are Only a Fraction of Pandemic Papers
Critics of scientific publishing had hoped for a bigger shake-up from the global crisis.
Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions
Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions
Interdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. This article looks at a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration.
81% of Horizon 2020 Papers Were Published in Open Access Journals
81% of Horizon 2020 Papers Were Published in Open Access Journals
More than 80% of scientific papers stemming from Horizon 2020 funded projects were published in open access journals, according to the European Commission in a new report.
Indonesia's Science Super-Agency Must Earn Researchers' Trust
The drastic shake-up of the country's science system is intended to boost innovation, but there are concerns about political interference in the new centralized agency.
Better Science Communication is Needed to Deliver the Green Transition
Better Science Communication is Needed to Deliver the Green Transition
To deliver the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, researchers must rethink funding, global cooperation and how they communicate with policymakers.
How Should Dora Be Enforced?
Dispute over Liverpool's use of metrics is best resolved through dialogue, says Stephen Curry.
How Misconduct Helped Psychological Science to Thrive
How Misconduct Helped Psychological Science to Thrive
Grass-roots action against bad behaviour has spurred reform - and should keep going.
Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
Academia has a problem with race. It’s a problem that academia — like the rest of American society — doesn’t like to acknowledge.
Can We (legally) Colonize Space?
The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.
Space Tourism: Out of Reach for Most Earthlings
Space tourism began in 2001 with Italian-American millionaire Dennis Tito. Decades later, it's still a preserve of the rich and essentially white.
Call for EU to Help Afghan Scientists
The European People's Party (EPP) is calling on the Commission and member states to fund emergency placements for Afghan researchers and academics at European higher education and research institutions. One of the EPP's lead MEPs, Christian Ehler, said scientists in Afghanistan risk being persecuted by the Taliban, after the islamist group took over the country when the US military and its allies pulled out.
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.
Interdisciplinarity is Not About the Humanities Aping the Sciences
Interdisciplinarity is Not About the Humanities Aping the Sciences
Uncritical and misinformed imitation of physics or biology is a misconception of collaboration.
