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Ethics in Science: Navigating Research Responsibilities

Dive into the complex world of scientific ethics and responsible conduct in research. Explore topics like conflict of interest, human subjects research, authorship, and more. Learn about professional codes of science and how to handle scientific misconduct, data treatment, and errors. Discover how to navigate challenging situations within research groups and with mentors. Understand the importance of sharing results and the allocation of credit in research. Gain insights on managing conflicts of interest and researcher obligations to society. Embark on your ethical research journey today!

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Ethics in Science: Navigating Research Responsibilities

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  1. On Being A Scientist

  2. Training for Responsible Conduct In Research • http://my.research.umich.edu/peerrs/ • Conflict of Interest • Research Practice and Foundations • Human Subjects Research • Authorship • Register and go through the modules

  3. Basic Principles • Science is fast paced and complex • Senior researchers always racing against time • Anonymous surveys show that many researchers engage in irresponsible practices or have witnessed others doing so.

  4. Professional Codes of Science • Researchers have an obligation to honor the trust their colleagues placed on them • Researchers have an obligation to themselves. • Researchers have an obligation to act in ways that serve the public

  5. Most Serious Violation • Scientific Misconduct • Fabrication, Falsification and Plagiarism (FFP) in proposing, performing, reviewing or reporting research results. • Questionable research practices are handled in informal and formal ways across institution.

  6. Research Group and Mentor • Interaction within your team members • Interaction with faculty mentor • Interaction with GSI • Structure, process, expectations

  7. Treatment of Data • De-identified data • Natural mistakes, errors vs negligence • Fraudulent manipulation • Selective reporting, Data dredging, Run after significance

  8. Treatment of Data • Design • Storage/Recording • Sharing • Analysis

  9. Discovering an error in your work • What should you do?

  10. Someone in your team engages in breach of trust • What should you do?

  11. Plagiarism • Copying sentences from a published paper, as you write your report-Plagiarism?

  12. Career can be at risk • Potti case in Duke University • Baggerly and Coombes paper posted in ctools

  13. Human Subjects Research • Institutional Review Board (IRB) • Even collecting data from you requires IRB approval if it will be used for any external write-up.

  14. Sharing of Results • Making new findings available to others • Poster, Oral presentation • Written technical reports • Peer-reviewed publications

  15. Archive and Save • Each iteration of code and analysis • Each version of dataset • Each draft of paper • Make final sets available through the Wiki and ctools site.

  16. Allocation of Credit • Who gets credit? • Who decides? • How to negotiate authorship? • Description of authorship contribution.

  17. Conflict of Interest • Board of director of a company and using their products in genotyping • Have large investments in a company, buy their sequencing tools • Conflicts from commitment (kayaking vs coding)

  18. Researchers in the Society • Benefits and risks of knowledge • Honesty, fairness, collegiality and openness basic guides in science and society • Educate students, peers, policymakers

  19. Here is to your Journey! Lemonade Only!

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