#researchethics — Public Fediverse posts

(1) preregistration and #RegisteredReports as tools to strengthen confirmatory rigor in complex clinical designs;
#RCT

(2) responsible data and material sharing under appropriate governance structures that account for the sensitivity of clinical data;
#ResearchEthics

(3) analytic transparency, including documentation of analytic decisions and #QualitativeResearch practices.

* For more on the working group, link to German profile:
https://www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/fgkl/aktivitaeten/ag-open-science/

#DGPs #OpenResearch

RE: https://fediscience.org/@satrevik/116612366859411834

Really interesting question.

I brought something similar last month to our #Postgraduate group with this paper as an example:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2026.2633517

This led to a good discussion about #AcademicCronyism. Whatever one thinks about the items in the poll, the paper offers some shades of grey regarding such actions.

#PublicationEthics #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEthics #COPE

"Gig workers expressed that, after noticing frequent changes on the listing platforms that were made without their consent, they started to see themselves as laboratory rats rather than valued users. Because their messages were blocked by chatbots, they were unable to speak to the platform to complain or opt out of the changes. Frustration flared and apathy set in. Their income and well-being declined.

This is concerning, not only because of how it affects gig workers, but also because academics are increasingly becoming involved in designing digital experiments. Social scientists follow strict Institutional Review Board (IRB) procedures that govern the ethics of experiments involving people — such as informing them and requiring consent — but these rules don’t apply to technology companies. And that’s leading to questionable practices and potentially unreliable results.

Technology companies use their terms of service to authorize them to collect data without any obligation to inform people that they were involved, or provide any opportunity for them to withdraw. Thus, digital experimentation faces scant oversight."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03674-x

#GigEconomy #GigWork #Research #IRB #DigitalPlatforms #ResearchEthics

The @NulliusInVerba episode on ethics review has some interesting parts and is worth listening if you are interested in #ResearchEthics
https://nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/irb/

To me several sections sounded like they implied that the ethics committee would "approve" research.

I would content that this is not the case. I provide below two quotes from @ukrio sources (both interesting reads beside this point).

How is this in other institutions? In other countries?

#IRB #ResearchGovernance #ResearchIntergrity

"So is there anything that can be done to challenge wrongdoing without crashing out over the cliff? A major point made by Elliott is that whistleblowers should not go it alone: that way madness lies." - @deevybee

Dorothy Bishop reviews Carl Elliott's book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No.

https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/07/whistleblowing-research-misconduct-and.html

#Whistleblowing #ResearchMisconduct #ScientificMisconduct #ResearchEthics #CarlElliott #DorothyBishop