H7N9: Video Chat Via Science Live

 

 

 

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Each week Science Magazine holds an online chat with top experts on the hottest topics in science as part of their ScienceLive Series. Later this morning (10 am EDT) they will hold a live video Chat on the H7N9 virus, with guests Yuelong Shu, Marion Koopmans, and  moderator Jon Cohen. 

 

Here are the details for what should prove a very interesting discussion.

 

Live Chat: The Threat of H7N9 Bird Flu (Video)

by Jon Cohen on 1 May 2013, 8:47 AM | See below for the chat box. Join us this Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT for a live conversation with leading scientists and expert reporters.

 

Today's Topic

When Chinese public health officials announced last month that people were sick and dying from a bird flu virus never before seen in humans, researchers immediately began hunting for answers to a deluge of pressing questions. How did the humans become infected? How deadly was the bug? Had it spread to people outside of China? Would anti-influenza drugs work? And how long would it take to make a vaccine?

 

Join us at a special time, 10 a.m. EDT, on Thursday, 2 May, on this page for a live video chat when we discuss H7N9 with experts. They’ll tackle the questions above and take yours. Be sure to leave your queries in the comment box below.

Today's Guests

Yuelong Shu

Marion Koopmans

Moderator

Science Live Chat: Are We Doing Science The Right Way?

 

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Over the past few years the topic of scientists behaving badly has come up with increasing frequency.  About a year ago, in Science at the Crossroads, I wrote about the dangerous erosion of the public’s trust in science.

 

Last March In Dysfunctional Science we saw a pair of editorials published in Infection and Immunity (IAI), authored by Dr. Ferric C. Fang, Editor in Chief, Infection and Immunity and Dr. Arturo Casadevall, Editor in Chief, mBio  on the challenges facing researchers. 

 

Copies of these thought provoking editorials can be found online at:

 

http://iai.asm.org/content/80/3/891.full

and

http://iai.asm.org/content/80/3/897.full

 

During a presentation last March before a committee of the National Academy of Sciences, Fang & Casadevall warned that number of retraction notices for scientific journals has increased more than 10-fold over the last decade, while the number of journals articles published has only increased by 44%.

 

And just a few weeks ago, in mBio: Gender Analysis Of Scientific Misconduct, we looked at an analysis written by written Joan W. Bennett, Ferric C. Fang, and Arturo Casadevall, that examined the rise of Scientific misconduct - which includes fabrication, falsification or plagiarism – over the past decade.

 

This is such an important topic that  I’m delighted to report that tomorrow afternoon (Thursday, Feb 7th) at 3pm EST, Science Live  will be holding a live chat with both Dr. Casadevall and Dr. Fang.

Details below, so mark your calendars for what I’m sure will be a lively discussion.

 

 

As much as they love research, many scientists lament the state of their profession these days. A mix of budgetary and other pressures are spawning stress and fear in the community. Bad scientific behavior is not uncommon. Recently, Science described the efforts of two microbiologists, Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall, who study how well the enterprise is functioning and how common misconduct appears to be. Is the push to publish ruining scientific discovery? Is science really self-correcting? Does peer review work? Are labs the right size? Does the quest for grants create a climate that encourages misconduct?

 

Join us for a live chat at 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, 7 February, on this page with Fang and Casadevall. Leave your own in the comment box below before the chat starts. The full text of the chat will be archived on this page.

ScienceLive Chat On H5N1 Research And Censorship

 

 

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Each week Science Magazine holds an online chat with top experts on the hottest topics in science as part of their ScienceLive Series.

 

And this week you’d be hard pressed to find a hotter topic than the ongoing debate over the conducting and publishing of H5N1 bird flu transmissibility research (see The Furor Over H5N1 Research Continues).

 

On Thursday, January 12th at 3 pm EST, moderator Martin Enserink will welcome CIDRAP director Michael Osterholm and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Virologist Andrew S. Pekosz for an hour long discussion.

 

 

 

The details from Science Magazine:

 

Live Chat: Should Science be Censored?

by Martin Enserink on 10 January 2012, 1:43 PM   See below for the chat box.

Join us each Thursday at 3 p.m. EST for a live conversation with leading scientists and expert reporters.

Today's Topic

The debate continues about two papers that resulted in H5N1 influenza strains that are more easily transmissible between mammals and may have the potential to trigger a pandemic. Last month, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recommended that key details be redacted from the studies, which are under review at Nature and Science. Some say that's a blow to scientific freedom; others argue the studies should never have been done in the first place.

 

This week, we'll talk about the benefits and risks of the H5N1 transmissibility studies and whether they should be published in full. Also on the table: Should experiments that could help aspiring bioterrorists be more tightly regulated--and if so, how? Our guests are two influenza experts, including a member of the NSABB.

 

Join us for the live chat  at 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, 12 January, on this page. You can leave your questions in the comment box below before the chat starts.

 

 

I’ll post a reminder on Thursday morning, since given the topic and the participants, this should be a terrific discussion.