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Known and Unknown Biases: A Framework for Contextualising and Identifying Bias in Animal Behaviour Research

open access: yesEthology, Volume 131, Issue 12, Page 269-276, December 2025.
As scientists, we are prone to biases. These biases can influence our ideas, how we conduct our research and how we interpret our findings. Individual researchers can take active steps to locate and mitigate bias in their own work. We propose a matrix of classifying biases which will help researchers contextualise biases.
Lucy A. Winder   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vestiges of the history of popular science [Essay Review] [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings, ed. James A. Secord. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1994. Pp. xlviii, vi, 390, viii, 254. US$ 19.95 PB.
Topham, J.R.
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Review Essay: Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Review Essay: Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human ...
Marsh, Leslie
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On “Confirmatory” Methodological Research in Statistics and Related Fields

open access: yesStatistics in Medicine, Volume 44, Issue 25-27, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Empirical substantive research, such as in the life or social sciences, is commonly categorized into the two modes exploratory and confirmatory, both of which are essential to scientific progress. The former is also referred to as hypothesis‐generating or data‐contingent research, while the latter is also called hypothesis‐testing research. In
F. J. D. Lange   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Replication Study: The CD47-signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPa) interaction is a therapeutic target for human solid tumors

open access: yeseLife, 2017
In 2015, as part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, we published a Registered Report (Chroscinski et al., 2015) that described how we intended to replicate selected experiments from the paper “The CD47-signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPa)
Stephen K Horrigan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Anti-Induction for Scientific Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are regarded as the strongest arguments for and against scientific realism, respectively. In this paper, I construct a new argument for scientific realism which
Park, Seungbae
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Language barriers in conservation science citation networks

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2025.
Abstract Using relevant scientific evidence is crucial to effectively conserve species and ecosystems worldwide. Currently, evidence that is available only in non‐English languages is severely underutilized. We examined many underutilized non‐English languages in the conservation evidence literature and factors that facilitate the use of non‐English ...
Kelsey Hannah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Replication Study: Systematic identification of genomic markers of drug sensitivity in cancer cells

open access: yeseLife, 2018
In 2016, as part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, we published a Registered Report (Vanden Heuvel et al., 2016), that described how we intended to replicate selected experiments from the paper ‘Systematic identification of genomic markers ...
John P Vanden Heuvel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies

open access: yeseLife, 2021
Any large dataset can be analyzed in a number of ways, and it is possible that the use of different analysis strategies will lead to different results and conclusions.
Balazs Aczel   +53 more
doaj   +1 more source

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