Here's an update on my attempt to determine how concerned to be about the privacy and security of our data now that my employer added Box AI.

I'm most worried about information "leaking" from one AI session to another, so decided to test for that. Spoiler: info did seem to be retained over time and users.

For the tests I used a text file with an interview_age column in months, though that it's months isn't given in the document.

In the first box AI chat, when I asked "how old are the participants in years?", as expected, it reported the values as given in the interview_age column (e.g., that one participant was 458 years old). I then told the AI that "the ages in the
document are in months. how old are they in years?", after which it (reasonably) divided by 12 to convert.

The test was whether, in later sessions, box AI would "remember" that the age column was in months and report the age in years after dividing by 12 without being told to do so.

In our tests, that is what happened: the box AI usually converted the ages correctly first try in later sessions, both when I queried the same document from different computers (my wustl.box account but on different days and networks), and when two colleagues opened their first AI session with a newly-shared copy of the document.

It'll be interesting to hear what our IT folks think, but I am getting less and less confident in box for sensitive data.

Preparing an internal workshop on #SecondaryDataAnalysis for tomorrow, brings me back to my thread on the very minimal #ResearchEthics and #ResearchIntegrity checks to perform when one has found a data set:
https://mastodon.social/deck/@jrboehnke/109823124976479472

What I think I have not moved to here, were some brief comments regarding minimum standards for the use of routinely collected data in health services.

Not totally full of surprises, so shout-outs to
@jasemrau @DanielleVossebeld and @lffontenelle

Thanks to @ottaross and @md for local tips for #Ottawa and #Cologne!

If you are interested in #HistoryOfScience #PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchEthics with a strong focus on #Psychology, @NulliusInVerba is often thought-provoking.

And apparently I am interested in bicycles in The Netherlands
@fietsria

Not much traffic on the other accounts anymore.

It has been a while, but next #PeerReview done: ca. 2.5hrs, 1600 words.

- #CONSORT guidelines are there for a reason

- Not reporting all randomised conditions is still a #QRP *

- Journal interestingly did not require compliance with
#DeclarationOfHelsinki #ResearchEthics

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611430953?journalCode=pssa

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethods modules in the #DundeeUni #ProfDoc
#Interdisciplinary #RD62001 #RD62002

I convene our School's #ResearchEthics committee

My terms as academic editor of 'Quality of Life Research' come to an end, and I am mulling over roles and sense in #AcademicPublishing
#NightshiftEditor

There may be some occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig and local stuff in my feed.

As the convenor of our School's #ResearchEthics committee and the new academic year, the cycle of training events is getting under way.

What should I not forget?

Is there anything you wish you had known, been told, etc that would have helped when applying for (non-clinical) ethics at a university?

The @NulliusInVerba episode on ethics review has some interesting parts and is worth listening if you are interested in #ResearchEthics
https://nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/irb/

To me several sections sounded like they implied that the ethics committee would "approve" research.

I would content that this is not the case. I provide below two quotes from @ukrio sources (both interesting reads beside this point).

How is this in other institutions? In other countries?

Nice listen on my way to work, very helpful to focus my mind for a session of our School #ResearchEthics Committee:

"Episode 40: Tabula de Ethicis Recensionibus"
https://nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/irb/
@NulliusInVerba

Interesting thought about the amount of effort required in application procedures [38:24min]:
"If you cut away the ethics part [...] not a lot would change."

Very interesting first meeting of the committees governing the ATTEND research programme!

It is a research study investigating a new treatment for depression and low mood in adolescents via mindfulness-based interventions for adolescents & carers:

https://attendstudy.org/

Ending my working week on a high:

Virtual meeting with colleagues from Chile, Ecuador and Argentine discussing #ResearchEthics in cross-national and international #PsychotherapyResearch. Very educating for me and glad that I could share some perspectives.

If you haven't, have a look at the Consorcio Latinoamericano de Investigación en Psicoterapia, which is developing very well:
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/general/custom.asp?page=CLIP-About

101 studies flagged as bogus COVID cure pusher sees career unravel - Enlarge / Microbiologist Didier Raoult addresses a press conference on ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2014943 #hydroxychloroquine #researchethics #didierraoult #covid-19 #science #health

Delivered #ResearchEthics review training today and had good discussions with #DundeeUni colleagues about various issues.

I included @lakens suggestion to "make dedicated methodological review boards a standard feature at universities and other research institutions":
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04504-8

Although admittedly we ourselves are not there (yet?), the session left me wondering, how else we would address this thoroughly and equitably?

#ResearchIntegrity @ukrio

New academic year - new #introduction

I am interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQL #Psychometrics
and my account mainly reflects what I work on, e.g. also

#ResearchMethods modules in the #DundeeUni #ProfDoc
#Interdisciplinary #RD62001 #RD62002

I convene our school's #ResearchEthics committee

My role as academic editor of 'Quality of Life Research' is coming to an end, and I am mulling over whether I am looking for a new role in #AcademicPublishing replacing it
#NightshiftEditor

Today I had time to read the full report on faked data in the former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s work, his failures to correct and retract misleading or incorrect articles, and his mismanagement of labs whose members manipulated the data. Ultimately, I was struck by the grubbiness of Tessier-Lavigne’s conduct, and how it smacks of the same lack of ethical judgment repeatedly displayed by Clarence Thomas. Report here: https://washingtonpost.com/documents/454b8927-febc-4bcc-990b-7b68d3f7ed9a.pdf 1/ #ethics #ResearchEthics

Twitter closing API access will drive the (questionable) study of social media posts to places like Mastodon. Classes that were teaching people social media scraping will likely turn to ActivityPub services. However, university #researchEthics committees should be wary of approving research as before. Unlike Twitter, instances and users can (and do) have much clearer views on being scraped. People can be contacted more easily for ethical consent in open protocols. Not a free for all any more.

#Introduction

We are the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO, pronounced YOO KAY REE-oh /juː keɪ ˈriːoʊ/), an independent charity, offering support to the public, researchers & organisations to further good practice in academic, scientific, & medical research in the United Kingdom.

We promote #ResearchIntegrity & high standards in #ResearchEthics, as well as robust & fair methods to address poor practice & misconduct.

Get free advice via https://ukrio.org/get-advice-from-ukrio/

Toots by @mattjhodgkinson

Trying out Mastodon, I guess!
#introduction

I'm an assistant prof at #Penn working at the intersection of #bioethics + #law. I study #researchethics, #IRBs, #compassionateuse/#expandedaccess to investigational drugs, #FDA, and #pharma #policy.

I'm co-chair of the Consortium to Advance Effective Research Ethics Oversight (www.aereo.org, #AEREO), a member of the Compassionate Use + Preapproval Access working group (#CUPA), and steward of the #DiverseBioethics list (www.diversebioethics.org).

#Introduction

I'm a demographer living in Denmark and studying regularities of human mortality, and irregularities too when they happen

I'm a big fan of #dataviz which I adore, practice, and teach — check out my #openscience #rstats course @datavizartskill

I'm interested in how science/academia is functioning and developing #bibliometrics #researchevaluation #researchethics

I'm excited to stay in contact with all the inspiring friends and colleagues // Ilya

#Introduction -- I am an agricultural economist working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, interested in #Behavioural and #Experimental #Economics and all things #ResearchEthics #opendata #openScience

Glad to be here!
#Introduction
#TwitterMigration #Twexit
Work in #ResearchEthx #ResearchEthics
#ResearchAdmin at #UniversityHealthNetwork #UHN in #Toronto #Canada
Interested in #HumanResearch #Standards #StandardsDevelopment
#Accreditation
#SystemsThinking
#SystemsInnovation
#ProportionalRepresentation
#CanadianRepublic
#UB40 #TorontoFC #TorontoRaptors #TorontoArgos