
Ivan Oransky
Editor in chief, @_thetransmitter; Distinguished Journalist In Residence, @NYU_Journalism; co-founder, @RetractionWatch; past president, @AHCJ.
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1 week ago |
thetransmitter.org | Ivan Oransky
Gerry Fischbach was one of the first people I met when I joined the editorial advisory board of Spectrum—now The Transmitter—just over a decade ago. I had heard of Gerry’s pioneering work as a neuroscientist and as a dean or director of some of science’s leading institutions: Columbia University, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and others. So I was a bit intimidated, to be honest, when he joined a meeting of the board. But any anxiety was quickly put to rest.
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1 month ago |
retractionwatch.com | Adam Marcus |Ivan Oransky
Retraction Watch has been honored with the Council of Science Editors’ highest honor: The 2025 Award for Meritorious Achievement. CSE gives the award each year to an organization or individual who has made “significant contributions” toward the goal of CSE, “namely, the improvement of scientific communication through the pursuit of high standards in all activities connected with editing.” We were honored to be at the CSE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis today to accept the award.
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2 months ago |
thetransmitter.org | Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar |Angie Voyles Askham |Ivan Oransky
ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Funding has been at the forefront of many scientists’ minds recently. The Transmitter would like to hear from readers around the world to find out where they get their funding for basic neuroscience research. We will use the results from this anonymous one-question survey to compile a list of funding sources that we plan to share on our site in the future. Sign up for our weekly newsletter.
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Jan 3, 2025 |
retractionwatch.com | Ivan Oransky
Dear RW readers, can you spare $25? The week at Retraction Watch featured:Introducing the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence ProgramOur list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450. There are more than 50,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles.
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Dec 27, 2024 |
retractionwatch.com | Ivan Oransky
Dear RW readers, it’s not too late to make an end-of-year donation to support our work. The week at Retraction Watch featured:Journals investigating dozens of papers by leading Canadian urologistsFinland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journalsA look back at 2024 at Retraction Watch, and forward to 2025Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changesOur list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 450.
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