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PhD Student Talk: The Dark Side of Science - Misconduct in Biomedical Research (Online)
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3940-22-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/12/2022
Date and time05.12.2022, at: 16:00 - 17:30
Regular seats500
LecturersRikke Buhl
Contact personMia Dabelsteen    E-mail address: mia.dabelsteen@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This talk is open to PhD students as well as postdocs and assistant professors.


Content
Science builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern.
If not addressed post-publication, papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Several high-profile science misconduct cases have been described, but many more cases remain undetected.

Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern.
She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images.
In her talk she will present her work and show several types of inappropriately duplicated images and other examples of research misconduct. In addition, she will show how to report scientific papers of concern, and how journals and institutions handle such allegations.


Relevance to graduate programmes
The talk is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
- All graduate programmes


About the speaker
Elisabeth Bik, PhD is a Dutch-American microbiologist who has worked for 15 years at Stanford University and 2 years in industry.
Since 2019, she is a science integrity volunteer and consultant who scans the biomedical literature for images or other data of concern and has reported over 6,000 scientific papers.
Her work has resulted in over 800 retracted and almost 1,000 corrected papers.


Time and date
5 December 2022, 16.00-17.30.


Venue
This course will be conducted online.


Registration
Please register no later than 01 December 2022.


Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.


Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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