Science writer. Communications consultant specialising in research and technology
Cape Town
Joined July 2009
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HIV research at @UCT_Research to get a boost as three emerging researcher awarded prestigious @NIH @Fogarty_NIH Emerging Global Leader Award. Congratulations to Dr Anna-Ursula Happel, @Hlengi246, @rabie_stephan
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I so enjoyed working with Prof Klaas Sijtsma on this piece about his excellent book: Never Waste a Good Crisis. He tackles a topic not often spoken about in #researchintegrity the challenges of statistical amateurism among researchers. @WCRIFoundation
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/…
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Believe it or not, #ResearchIntegrity affects everyone! At #WCRI2024 Director Garrity sat down with @chrisgrafpub, Research Integrity Director at @SpringerNature and Trustee at @C0PE to get his opinion on why research integrity is so important. Check it out. #SheilaAsks
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#CapeStorm: The Haven Night Shelter has launched a ‘Buy a Bed’ campaign, allowing the public to buy a homeless person a bed in their shelter for 5 nights for R75. #BuyABed #SupportHomeless #capefloods
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#CapeStorm: Are you willing to sacrifice your coffee and support the less fortunate during this bad weather? Let's make a difference together. #BuyABed #SupportHomeless #capefloods
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How do we ensure trustworthy science? An insightful piece on #OpenScience by @monkavour via @LSEImpactBlog
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…
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Looking back at highlights of #WCRI2024. Congratulations to all our award winners, including the Anderson-Kleinert Diversity award winners: Feziwe Mseleni, @TanyaCoetzee12, and @time4virtue_Ike, and Excellence in Doctoral Research Awards: Xinqu Zhang and @stavaleraf
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Congratulations to Feziwe Mseleni, Chiedozie Ike and Tanya Coetzee the Three Winners of The Anderson-Kleinert Diversity Award at #WCRI2024
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Looking back at some of the highlights of #WCRI2024. Congratulations to the award winners @mm_pittelkow, Pritha Sarkar, @LodewijkPet, @Marguerite_OR, Judith Murungi and @manzanamarilla. Winners of Best Presentation and Best Oral Presentation awards.
Natalie Simon retweeted
Nature retracts highly cited 2002 paper that claimed adult stem cells could become any type of cell
@ellie_kincaid writes @RetractionWatch
"Verfaillie, agreed with the retraction. She now has four retractions, by our count"
retractionwatch.com/2024/06/…
A really good article by @monkavour, written for and relevant to #WCRI2024
✍️"scientists and societies should not focus only on the conclusions of scientific research, but on the whole process with which those conclusions were reached"
#OpenScience wp.me/p4m9em-d3D
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Shanshan Yu @fujitsulabs on examples of application of their AI tech to research and business; and their GenAI products - I have found details at blog.fltech.dev/entry/2024/0… - A bit of a sales pitch ;) #WCRI2024
It's a problem in the Global South that I don't think will be solved as simply as giving a few months' notice to GS institutions/researchers to get institutional email addresses. Some universities in Africa struggle to get most basic IT support. #WCRI2024
Always great hearing from representatives from industry and other stakeholders. Listening to presentation from Shanshan Yu from @Fujitsu_Global on research integrity and #AI
Mabel Chew of the @TheLancet now up, talking about what editors and publishers can do to tackle racial and ethic bias in translating science into policy
#WCRI2024