
Cathleen O'Grady
Science Writer at Freelance
Correspondent at Science Magazine
Science journo. No longer here. Find me on Signal at cathleen_ogrady.14 or @cathleenogrady.bsky.social
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2 weeks ago |
science.org | Cathleen O'Grady
A preprint reporting an “expert consensus” on key questions about teen smartphone use and mental health has come under heavy fire on social media, with critics saying the paper has severe weaknesses and the evidence in the field is too thin to support consensus. “I think it’s a waste of time,” says Pete Etchells, a psychologist at Bath Spa University who studies digital technology.
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3 weeks ago |
science.org | Cathleen O'Grady
Last year, Matt Spick began to notice oddly similar papers flooding in for peer review at Scientific Reports, where he is an associate editor. He smelled a rat. The papers all drew on a publicly available U.S. data set: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which through health exams, blood tests, and interviews has collected dietary information and other health-related measurements from more than 130,000 people.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Cathleen O'Grady
Thomas Crowther, the ETH Zürich ecologist whose rapid rise to prominence brought him intense media coverage, large research grants, and a position advising the United Nations, blurred personal and professional boundaries and broke rules regarding financial compliance and hiring, according to a report the university released last week.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Cathleen O'Grady
A study that used artificial intelligence–generated content to “participate” in online discussions and test whether AI was more successful at changing people’s minds than human-generated content has caused an uproar because of ethical concerns about the work. This week some of the unwitting research participants publicly asked the University of Zürich (UZH), where the researchers behind the experiment hold positions, to investigate and apologize.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Cathleen O'Grady
Thomas Crowther, the ETH Zürich ecologist whose rapid rise to prominence brought him intense media coverage, large research grants, and a position advising the United Nations, blurred personal and professional boundaries and broke rules regarding financial compliance and hiring, according to a report the university released last week.
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