Also this week: the Bayeux Tapestry vs. seminar speakers, Covid-19 vs. mothers, and more.
From Jeremy:
An interview with Youyang Gu, the data scientist who published what turned out to be some of the most accurate forecasts of Covid-19 dynamics in the US.
Ecology issues an Expression of Concern on Royaute & Pruitt 2015. Serious duplications in data collected by Jonathan Pruitt are under investigation. Details from first author Raphael Royaute here. That last link includes a link a GitHub site where all the duplications are documented. Pruitt’s former collaborators and trainees continue to go above and beyond to correct the scientific record.
And here’s advance notice of a forthcoming #pruittdata retraction. Via Twitter, Lena Grinsted announces that Grinsted et al. 2015 Proc B is going to be retracted. The paper had previously been subject to an EoC. Have I mentioned lately that Pruitt’s former collaborators and trainees continue to go above and beyond to correct the scientific record?
News article in Science on the impacts of the Covid-19 on researchers who are also mothers.
I can’t believe no one replied with MST3K: The Movie. And that only one person replied with Plan 9 From Outer Space. 🙂
What seminars were like in the Before Times 🙂 :
Is there any precedence for anything like the Pruitt debacle in EEB? I can’t think of any. It would not surprise me if, after the dust settles, someone writes a book about it.
Closest precedent is Anders Pape Moller:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2004/01/ecologists-rocked-misconduct-finding
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/a-fluctuating-reality-46903
http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/palmer.hp/pubs/05MollerComm/MollerExchange.htm
http://www.jorgenrabol.dk/default.asp?show=misconduct
Sure, though that was just a handful of papers I think, nothing on the scale of Pruitt.