Cathleen O'Grady

2 months ago | science.org | Cathleen O'Grady

This story uses both “Deaf” and “deaf” depending on what sources expressed as their preferred term. Cason was 3 years old when doctors in South Carolina fitted him with cochlear implants—assistive devices for profoundly deaf people that send sound directly into the inner ear. Because the signal from the implants is not the same as biological hearing, implant users like Cason work hard to interpret what they hear through them.

2 months ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Meagan Cantwell |Cathleen O'Grady |Jocelyn Kaiser

Share: First up this week, science policy editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the latest news about the National Institutes of Health—from reconfiguring review panels to canceled grants to confirmation hearings for a new head, Jay Bhattacharya. Next, although cochlear implants can give deaf children access to sound, it doesn’t always mean they have unrestricted access to language. Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady about why...

2 months ago | science.org | Cathleen O'Grady

When a celebrity is accused of abuse, fans grapple with the question of whether to continue to engage with that person’s work. Now, researchers have explored whether scientists feel similarly about accused scholars—and found that they tend to avoid citing alleged sexual harassers. Scholars accused of sexual misconduct see a drop in their citations in the years after public allegations, according to the study, published today in PLOS ONE.

2 months ago | science.org | Cathleen O'Grady

Give a group of scientists the same data and the same research question, and they should come up with similar answers—in theory. But they don’t, according to a paper published this month in BMC Biology, which finds that 246 ecologists analyzing the same data sets reached widely varying conclusions, with some finding effects in totally opposite directions.

2 months ago | science.org | Cathleen O'Grady

Shady companies have long given unscrupulous scientists the opportunity to buy authorship of papers—a form of academic fraud. But according to a draft paper posted online today and scheduled to appear in the International Journal for Educational Integrity, these outfits have now diversified into selling intellectual property rights, too.