Improving reliability through design and reporting
As part of the BNA's ongoing Credibility in Neuroscience work, this series of three short webinars will provide neuroscience researchers working in an in vivo setting with tips on how to improve the credibility of their work. Each webinar will be hosted by Emily Sena, member of the BNA's Credibility Advisory Board, with the opportunity for questions.
Inclusive Basic Research
Methodology for understanding the basic phenomena of life can be done in vitro or in vivo, under tightly-controlled experimental conditions designed to limit variability. However stringent the protocol, these experiments do not occur in a cultural vacuum and they are often subject to the same societal biases as other research disciplines. Many researchers uphold the status quo of biased basic research by not questioning the characteristics of their experimental animals, or the people from whom their tissue samples were collected. This means that our fundamental understanding of life has been built on biased models. This session will explore the ways in which basic life sciences research can be biased and the implications of this. We will discuss practical ways to assess your research design and how to make sure it is representative.