Epigram: Senior Bristol researcher resigns after admitting to research misconduct

[Kalliope]

Epigram: Senior Bristol researcher resigns after admitting to research misconduct

A researcher at the University of Bristol’s school of molecular and cellular medicine resigned this summer after investigations were started into allegations of ‘fabricating data’ and bullying in the lab.

 

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[AR68]

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The @BristolCMM account on Twitter is currently quite interesting, if anyone may care to have a look....

 

[Esther12]

Interesting article. Also - social media drama involving academics is always so fun!

 

[Esther12]

Looks like that Bristol CMM twitter feed has now been shut down. That was quick!

https://twitter.com/BristolCMM

 

[Kalliope]

Looks like that Bristol CMM twitter feed has now been shut down. That was quick!

https://twitter.com/BristolCMM

I wonder if there will be an aftermath, if it might shift things.
It went on for quite a few hours, so I guess many have seen it.

 

[lunarswirls]

 

[adambeyoncelowe]

This thread title got my hopes up!

 

[Amw66]

Pertintent and still there - perhaps wirth a retweet

 

[EzzieD]

Strangely, the BristolCMM Twitter account is now back up, at least at the time of this post, and yesterday's critical tweets are still there.

Very surprising that it would re-appear, and intact - wonder how that happened, and how long it will stay up?

 

[large donner]

"We dont like what you said give us your login details and password".

Are they serious, who gives anyone a password they use?

 

[Sly Saint]

 

[Adrian]

There is still this article
https://forbetterscience.com/2018/09/10/abderrahmane-kaidi-leaves-bristol-after-misconduct-findings/

But lets not forget Bristol University tried to shut @dave30th up rather than investigate Crawley and Jonathan Sterne for doing research without ethics approval. So they have a history of trying to cover up issues. Perhaps the surprise here is they actually investigated research misconduct (but seemed to keep a very narrow scope). I wonder if it was because collaborators at other institutions (rather than patients) complained.

 

[large donner]

For anyone who thinks there is an actual definition of fake news this is a warning of what can happen if the government or establishment get to claim they can define it and dissapear stuff.

 

[rvallee]

For anyone who thinks there is an actual definition of fake news this is a warning of what can happen if the government or establishment get to claim they can define it and dissapear stuff.

Hopefully this will Streisand effect the issue. It generally does.

*grabs popcorn*

 

[Sly Saint]

BristolCMM has gone again.

 

[Adrian]

BristolCMM has gone again.

It looks like they have deleted the twitter account this time.

 

[Cheshire]

On the BBC now:
Bristol lecturer resigns over fabricated research