“Overall, I had previously felt that I was a fairly productive person. I was getting a lot done, but I had periods, especially on the weekends, in which I felt panicky and could not rest because I sensed that there were work-related items that I should have been doing.”
Sound familiar? Read how Heather Whitney approached that problem: How to (Try to) Get a Lot Done in the Sciences (The Chronicle of Higher Education).
“An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images by a prominent Japanese scientist.
“The nearly 6-minute video, complete with background music, presents a series of still shots of over 60 allegedly duplicated and manipulated images in 24 papers, including 19 instances in a single publication, by a group led by molecular signaling specialist Shigeaki Kato of the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The publications go back to 2001, include numerous co-authors, and have appeared in Nature, Cell, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other journals…
via ScienceInsider
Beauchamp TL, Childress JF. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford Press, Oxford, (2001).
Promoting Responsible Conduct in Research through “Survival Skills” Workshops: Some Mentoring is Best Done in a Crowd. Fischer BA and Zigmond MJ. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2001, 7:4, 563-587.
Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research: Cases for Teaching and Assessment. Bebeau MJ, Pimple KD, Muskavitch KMT, Borden SL & Smith DH. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1995; see www.indiana.edu/~poynter
Comstock GL. Life Sciences Ethics, Iowa State Press, 2002.
“A research and collaboration website designed to help you do research, share, collaborate, and participate in the field of ethics. It includes…research materials, group discussions, current news articles, and upcoming events.”
Has a large collection of ethics cases.
The Lab Office of Research Integrity.
An extremely well done interactive video that deals with issues of research integrity. Can be viewed by students on their own or used as a stimulus for class discussion. Also see the ORI website for other resources.
Bioethics at the movies. Sapshay S (ed). Johns Hopkins University Press, (2010).
A peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles as well as articles on teaching research ethics.
Scientific Integrity: An Introductory Text with Cases, 3rd edition. Macrina, FL. ASM Press, 2005.
Guidance for the Description of Animal Research in Scientific Publications
(Free PDF download from the NAS website!)
Publisher’s description:
“The publication of research articles involving animal studies is central to many disciplines in science and biomedicine. Effective descriptions in such publications enable researchers to interpret the data, evaluate and replicate findings, and move the science forward. (more…)