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Venture
fromTechCrunch
14 hours ago

Stanford's star reporter takes on Silicon Valley's 'money-soaked' startup culture | TechCrunch

A student journalist exposed research misconduct and reveals how venture capital exploits Stanford students with wealth, favors, and secretive tactics to cultivate founders.
Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 month ago

What an academic misconduct accusation taught me about sharing research

A research group faced misconduct allegations for allegedly ignoring similar prior work, prompting investigation that uncovered earlier public documents and raised plagiarism concerns.
fromNature
3 months ago

Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back

In 2016, Brian Wansink wrote a blog post that prompted scientific sleuths to investigate his work. They found evidence of data manipulation, and, after several news articles and two investigations by his institution, he would found to have committed misconduct, as defined by Cornell University. His work had been used to inform US policy around food, much of which has now been thrown into question.
Science
Science
fromNature
4 months ago

How to tackle research misconduct: survey finds stark disagreement

Sleuths and integrity officers differ on how to handle research misconduct cases, revealing a significant divide on the effectiveness of reporting channels.
fromTheregister
4 months ago

NIH warns researchers to avoid AI in grant applications

NIH will not consider applications that are either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas of applicants.
US politics
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