A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant ...

When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past ...

Moving forward requires coordinated technical, policy, and educational responses. An outright ban on AI in peer review, as is ...

In a June 18 opinion piece in MedPage Today, Anthony LoSasso, PhD, a health economist who served on NIH study sections for 12 ...

A major systematic review and meta-analysis links higher BMI to increased risk of 19 cancer types, including leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, bladder cancer, and glioma, which were not previously ...

The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could ...

The result is a horror show for US science research. Not only is peer review made a secondary consideration, but the new ...

Journal Editorial Report: How top marks became the norm at elite colleges. Photo: Sophie Park/Bloomberg News/Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.” But science isn ...

A new expert-informed guide to writing effective peer review responses has just been published in Conservation Physiology, following up on a widely-read guide to writing constructive peer reviews.

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Objectives We aimed to determine to what extent systematic reviewers and post-preprint and post-publication peer review identified methodological and reporting issues in COVID-19 trials that could be ...

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