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Lesley Uttley

@lesleyuttley.bsky.social

Meta-meta-meta researcher in systematic reviews. Research integrity, research culture and other human influences in research. Senior Research Fellow at University of Sheffield. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4603-9069

269 Followers  |  159 Following  |  3 Posts  |  Joined: 26.09.2024  |  1.7795

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πŸ“’ Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.

24.09.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How β€˜correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?

Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv

Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social

03.06.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI slashes time to produce gold-standard medical reviews β€” but sceptics urge caution Although language models can help to accelerate systematic reviews, a fully automated system is still some way off.

Scientists say they used LLMs to reproduce 12 gold-standard #Cochrane systematic reviews in 2 days - rather than 12 years.

But other experts are sceptical; the system doesn't automate some review steps and needs independent testing. My news story for @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

19.06.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A blue slide with the text Behavioural Research UK: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality in Behavioural Research. Speakers: Dr Julze Alejandre, Dr Niamh Hart, Sancha Martin (University of Edinburgh), Professor Ann Phoenix (University College London) and Dr Lesley Uttley (University of Sheffield). And the BR-UK logo.

A blue slide with the text Behavioural Research UK: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality in Behavioural Research. Speakers: Dr Julze Alejandre, Dr Niamh Hart, Sancha Martin (University of Edinburgh), Professor Ann Phoenix (University College London) and Dr Lesley Uttley (University of Sheffield). And the BR-UK logo.

Join us on the 24th March at 11am for our webinar on the importance of #EDII in Behavioural Research, with speakers @julzealejandre.bsky.social, Niamh Hart, Sancha Martin, Ann Phoenix & @lesleyuttley.bsky.social

Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

19.03.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Final call for registration for meeting on research #fraud.

Talks and discussion sessions with sleuths, research integrity experts, and more. Online and in person options.

www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)

#ResearchIntegrity #Oxford

21.03.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Just under a week left to apply for this position on the MORPHSS project.

16.03.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.

Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.

Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.

12.02.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

@sharoncox.bsky.social, @profalexstevens.bsky.social

11.02.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Better assessment is key to improving research culture People culture and environment will have a greater weighting in the next iteration of the REF. Lesley Uttley argues research assessment plays a significant role in positively shaping research cultu…

πŸ’₯New: Better assessment is key to improving research culture

✍️ @lesleyuttley.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #REF2029

10.02.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Better assessment is key to improving research culture People culture and environment will have a greater weighting in the next iteration of the REF. Lesley Uttley argues research assessment plays a significant role in positively shaping research cultu…

This blog for LSE is a short summary of our scoping review of research culture blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Good if you're short on time but want some key take-homes about potential reforms for healthier research environments.

10.02.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

While I see (again) many new users, here is the metaresearch and open sciencff et starting pack 1. Please repost.

29.01.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many thanks Stephen. We tried to squeeze as much research culture as possible in this summary to get conversations moving. Those who are too busy or important to care about research culture may well be the problem with it! Hopefully the REF will lead to incentives evolving with the times.

17.01.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Research culture influences in health and biomedical research: Rapid scoping review and content analysis", new paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social with a great team of colleagues and led by the fantastic Lesley Uttley.

www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

25.11.2024 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update In February 2023, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology published β€˜The Problems with Systematic Reviews: A living Systematic Review.’ In updating this living review for the first time to incorporate li...

Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update - @jclinepi.bsky.social
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.11.2024 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟Exciting news!🌟 When you publish on Octopus, your work is now automatically sent to your institution's repository. Find out more ji.sc/octopus-pub-...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess @jisc.bsky.social

16.01.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Public engagement with research reproducibility Public engagement with reproducibility is crucial for fostering trust in science. This Community Page describes how, by using relatable analogies and hands-on activities, participants explored the cha...

New 🧡 about our recent πŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸŽ„ paper in @plosbiology.org "Public engagement with research reproducibilty". Topic of the day: "Talking about research with the public (non-)reproducibilty is is far from destined to fail". Please repost.

15.12.2024 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Wow, thanks so much for thinking of me for this! But I think I'm too far post-PhD (a distant 14 years ago). You're truly collegiate though Florian and you uplift others. I wish there were more like you.

15.12.2024 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And here is the fantastic paper on research culture Lesley led… www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

04.12.2024 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome @lesleyuttley.bsky.social in the meta research and open science starter pack. go.bsky.app/DWo6RbA

04.12.2024 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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