Natalie Simon

Science writer. Communications consultant specialising in research and technology

[UCT Health Sciences @UCTHealthSci]

HIV research at @UCT_Research to get a boost as three emerging researcher awarded prestigious @NIH @Fogarty_NIH Emerging Global Leader Award. Congratulations to Dr Anna-Ursula Happel, @Hlengi246, @rabie_stephan
Read more: https://t.co/K6DDJJdSiV

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

I so enjoyed working with Prof Klaas Sijtsma on this piece about his excellent book: Never Waste a Good Crisis. He tackles a topic not often spoken about in #researchintegrity the challenges of statistical amateurism among researchers. @WCRIFoundation

https://t.co/KCEK4Or0HJ

[Research Integrity @HHS_ORI]

Believe it or not, #ResearchIntegrity affects everyone! At #WCRI2024 Director Garrity sat down with @chrisgrafpub, Research Integrity Director at @SpringerNature and Trustee at @C0PE to get his opinion on why research integrity is so important. Check it out. #SheilaAsks

[Pied Piper of Ingquza Hill @ThobelaniMcunu2]

#CapeStorm #BuyABed 🕯️🕯️🕯️

[Janice Johannes @janicejohannes]

#CapeStorm: Are you willing to sacrifice your coffee and support the less fortunate during this bad weather? Let's make a difference together. #BuyABed #SupportHomeless #capefloods

[World Conf Research Integrity @WCRIFoundation]

How do we ensure trustworthy science? An insightful piece on #OpenScience by @monkavour via @LSEImpactBlog
https://t.co/dRhTPSCiVI

[World Conf Research Integrity @WCRIFoundation]

Looking back at highlights of #WCRI2024. Congratulations to all our award winners, including the Anderson-Kleinert Diversity award winners: Feziwe Mseleni, @TanyaCoetzee12, and @time4virtue_Ike, and Excellence in Doctoral Research Awards: Xinqu Zhang and @stavaleraf

[Nkundimana Vincent @NkundimanaVinc3]

Congratulations to Feziwe Mseleni, Chiedozie Ike and Tanya Coetzee the Three Winners of The Anderson-Kleinert Diversity Award at #WCRI2024

[World Conf Research Integrity @WCRIFoundation]

Looking back at some of the highlights of #WCRI2024. Congratulations to the award winners @mm_pittelkow, Pritha Sarkar, @LodewijkPet, @Marguerite_OR, Judith Murungi and @manzanamarilla. Winners of Best Presentation and Best Oral Presentation awards.

[Elisabeth Bik @MicrobiomDigest]

Nature retracts highly cited 2002 paper that claimed adult stem cells could become any type of cell
@ellie_kincaid writes @RetractionWatch
"Verfaillie, agreed with the retraction. She now has four retractions, by our count"
https://t.co/05igIvwlFg

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

@wilkinsoncape I also live in this area, and the difference is it gets fixed immediately. Teams start working on the problems nearly immediately. In Joburg they go for days with no response. Also - part of Simon's Town problem is the infrastructure that is meant to be kept up by the navy...

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

A really good article by @monkavour, written for and relevant to #WCRI2024

[LSE Impact Blog @LSEImpactBlog]

✍️"scientists and societies should not focus only on the conclusions of scientific research, but on the whole process with which those conclusions were reached"

#OpenScience https://t.co/r47E61TBHx

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

#WCRI2024 @karinv warns of IP leakage in using open #AI tools for unpublished work or funding proposals. Really important point to consider and I don't know how many stop to think about that.

[Kaveh Bazargan @kaveh1000]

@karinv
Some good aspects of GenAI:
● generating summary abstracts
● explaining results
● producing multi-lingual abstracts
#WCRI2024

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

Up next @karinv on Impacts of generativr #AI on research. The good, the bad and the ugly. #WCRI2024

[FAIRlady @SusannaASansone]

Shanshan Yu @fujitsulabs on examples of application of their AI tech to research and business; and their GenAI products - I have found details at https://t.co/lgizc68xSs - A bit of a sales pitch ;) #WCRI2024

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

@AbalkinaAnna Now we are all dying to know the details ;)

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

#AI hallucinations are still a really big problem in generative AI and, with good reason, undermines trust. Shanshan Yu outlines strategies for hallucinations detection. #WCRI2024

[Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes @BarbaraLancho]

What do people expect from generative AI?

Performance

#WCRI2024

[Natalie Simon @natssimon]

It's a problem in the Global South that I don't think will be solved as simply as giving a few months' notice to GS institutions/researchers to get institutional email addresses. Some universities in Africa struggle to get most basic IT support. #WCRI2024

[Kaveh Bazargan @kaveh1000]

Joris van Rossum, @STMAssoc
Mandatory institutional email ID should be used if available, but not all institutions have that now,
#WCRI2024