Michael Andrades

Chamada Aberta para Diretoria Executiva! A Rede Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade está buscando um(a) novo(a) Diretor(a) Executivo(a) com ênfase em pesquisa e educação!

A Rede Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade está buscando um(a) novo(a) Diretor(a) Executivo(a) com ênfase em pesquisa e educação! A chamada está aberta para pesquisadores de qualquer área, com remuneração baseada na tabela de valores praticados pela FAPESP, com início em novembro/dezembro de 2025!

No Brasil, heranças e doações estão entre as menos tributadas do mundo, com alíquotas entre 2% e 8%, contra a média de 15% na OCDE e até 55% no Japão.

@filipespeck.bsky.social tesouros de Priamo? Será? No Neues Muesum, em Berlim. Um abraço para vcs do podcast Noites Gregas!

My humble contribution to #Fesbe2025 at Unicamp @unicampoficial.bsky.social Grateful to be part of it!

#meta-analysis
#transcriptome

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You're right. Still, the text says the reviewers can opt to be acknowledged.

Recognizing reviewers is great (long overdue!), but could it backfire?

1️⃣ Discourage honest critiques due to fear of backlash?

2️⃣ Might it push reviewers to go easy, just to get name recognition, lowering the rigor?

Thoughts?

Brandon Stell puts it powerfully - and accurately: 'We value publications more than what's inside them.'
It's not something we wanted to hear, but it's something we needed to.

Great! Will you be broadcasting it online?

Fechamos a carta com 187 signatários e mais de 1500 visualizações! 🤩

Belkin et al. demonstrated that male and female hearts respond differently to a preventive diet against dilated cardiomyopathy. Looks like sex matters in #cardiology, huh? See doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

@reproducibilitea.org @redebrrepro.bsky.social @ukrepro.bsky.social

Systematic heterogenisation to improve reproducibility in animal studies A recent study published in PLoS Biology investigated whether the systematic use of multiple experimenters boosts the reproducibility of behavioural assays in mice. This Primer explores study designs ...

Science should reflect complexity, not oversimplify it. It's time to design experiments that embrace controlled diversity for more robust and translatable results. See doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A researcher measures identical mice emerging from an industrial production line.

Animal research needs a reality check. 🐭🔬
Standardized experiments with genetically identical, same-age, single-sex animals boost internal validity - but at what cost? Lack of heterogenization reduces reproducibility and real-world relevance.
#Reproducibility #AnimalResearch #Science

Que análise sobre o voto e países soberanos na democracia moderna. Não tem jeito, o sistema precisa de atualização e o Miguel Lago finaliza com umas poucas ideias. Pena que não investiu mais nessa abordagem. Estou curioso para ler o A Construção de um Estado para o Século XXI. a.co/d/9pyveTN

What do you mean by 'visual sloppiness'?

I suspect it's a holdover from the era of physical paper-submitted manuscripts, when high-definition figures were printed separately—almost like an archaeological relic. Sometimes we update the system but not the practices.

Why do journals insist on requiring figures at the end of the file?
Haven't editors reviewed enough manuscripts to realize it's much easier to check a fig. when it's near the paragraph where it is cited?
Make reviewers' lives easier - you're already not paying them!
#ScientificPublishing
#PeerReview

Do you think state-funded institutes should be maintained to audit certain state-funded projects, or would changing policies to eliminate harmful incentives (such as overvaluing high-impact journals) be a more cost-effective way to improve science?

A full systematic review was completed in 2 weeks using automation tools: a case study Systematic reviews (SRs) are time and resource intensive, requiring approximately 1 year from protocol registration to submission for publication. Our…

Before the AI era, Clark et al. completed a full systematic review in just 2 wks by dividing the process into parts and automating them.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m not naive, but this demonstrates that we can improve data synthesis with better training datasets and ethical oversight.

Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means? Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

AI promises to speed up #meta-analysis, but not without risks. Transparency, reproducibility, and preventing misuse are key concerns. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are we ready to trust AI to synthesize decades of science? Or will it just make a mess of the literature?

#AI #Science #Metascience

Fresh preclinical #MetaAnalysis now available as a #preprint!

N-acetylcysteine boosts total glutathione levels in heart disease animal models.

I'd love for you to explore it and leave comments on Research Square:

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
#Science #Cardiology #NAC #Antioxidants