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Embracing Lived Experience: A Data-Driven Look at Autistic Involvement in Autism Research

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People with lived experience of a condition bring unique and valuable insights when planning research into that condition. Using data from Dimensions, Emily Alagha examines the evolution of autistic people’s involvement in autism research over the past two decades. Author’s note about identify-first language In this post, I am using identity-first language (e.g., ‘autistic person’) to honor the preference of many in the autism community who embrace their identity as an integral part of who they are. This approach reflects the values of empowerment and self-identification. The Rise of Participatory Research There’s a growing recognition in the research community that individuals with lived experience of a condition or phenomenon can offer unique and valuable insights to the design of scientific studies. This collaborative approach is often referred to as participatory research and actively involves individuals with lived experience in all stages of the research process. Dimensions
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Shining a light on conflict of interest statements

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Authors either have a conflict of interest or not, right? Wrong. Research from Digital Science has uncovered a tangled web of missing statements, errors, and subterfuge, which highlights the need for a more careful appraisal of published research. At this year’s World Conference on Research Integrity , a team of researchers from Digital Science led by Pritha Sarkar presented a poster with findings from their deep dive on conflict of interest (COI) statements. Entitled Conflict of Interest: A data driven approach to categorisation of COI statements , the initial goal was to look at COI statements with a view to creating a binary model that determines whether a Conflict of Interest statement is present or not in an article.  However, all was not as it seemed. While some articles had no COI and some had one present, those present covered a number of different areas, which led the team to think COIs might represent a spectrum rather than binary options. Gold standard Conflict of inter
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Quantum Radio Astronomy for redundant baseline calibration. #sciencefath...

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Eco vs Economy and finance - A Quick Dive.

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Scismic and Objective, Skills-focused, AI-driven Recruitment in STEM

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To AI or not AI? The use of AI technologies has always been susceptible to charges of potential bias due to skewed datasets large language models have been trained on. But surely firms are making sure those biases have been ironed out, right? Sadly, when it comes to AI and recruitment, not all applications of the technology are the same so firms need to tread carefully. In other words – if you don’t understand it, don’t use it. Since the launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, it has been difficult to read a newspaper, blog or magazine without some reference to the strange magic of AI. It has enthused and concerned people in equal measure, with recruiters being no different. From every gain in being able to understand and work with huge amounts of information, there appears to be negatives around data bias and inappropriate uses.  Scismic is part of the larger company Digital Science, and both have been developing AI-focused solutions for many years. From that experience comes an un
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How do quantum computers differ from classical computers? #sciencefather...

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Explore how quantum computers surpass classical ones in processing power and data storage. Learn more at inventionawards.org! International Research Awards on New Science Inventions Visit: inventionawards.org Award Nomination: https://x-i.me/innew2 Contact us: nesinsupport@sciencefather.com #sciencefather , #ResearchAwards , #science #germenvironment #microbiology #professor #transportation #eyes #adaptations #innovation #futuretech #pancreas , #science , #anatomy , #digestion , #health #shorts #technology #conference #awards #research #engineering #microbiology #physics #mathematics #arts #management #chemistry #neuroscience #biology #business #genetics #medicine #Pharmacology #economics #toxicology #pharmacology
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