My only big issue with #rwc this year is that it’s sponsored by a freaking car. Has climate change not reached the offices of the #IRB.

Today in Labor History June 7, 1866: 1,800 Fenian raiders were forced back to the U.S. after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas in Canada. The Fenian raiders were members of the Fenian Brotherhood (Irish Republican Brotherhood), a U.S.-based Irish Republican organization that attacked British installations in Canada. Their goal was Irish independence from the UK. They carried out raids in 1866, as well as 1870-1871. The IRB also took part in the ill-fated Fenian Rising, in Ireland, in 1867.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #irish #independence #ireland #republican #colonialism #IRB #canada #british

The new autocompletion in irb is helpful some of the time, but I wish it only popped up when I asked for it, rather than, for example, every time I start to type a floating-point number.
#ruby #irb

Reflecting on the vastly different situations regarding #EthicsReview across institutions and countries. Some journals are now requiring #IRB approval for all #research involving human subjects. I definitely see where they are coming from, but this leaves authors from countries where IRBs don't exist and ethics review is not mandatory in a difficult spot.

One of those cases where some countries are "behind the times" (or lack the resources) and scholars are the ones that lose out

"A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men’s skin and injecting it into their veins."

The Associated Press: California university apologizes for prisoner experiments.
https://apnews.com/47dc10c5d90cf050d65f523003da9f4a

#incarceration #irb #ethics #health

@stefanowitsch I wanted to rely on my university's #IRB for this, but they decided my project wasn't human subject research. I anonymized that data and removed two IDs/URLs, but it's easy to reconstruct.

In my case, I'm also partial to #openscience practices, so putting the data in a public repository was important to me.

Ultimately, I think we either trust people to understand their tweets are public (questionable) or just don't do the research.

Do y'all's #IRB's make you use MS Doc's for everything!?

Speaking of #openscience, is there a good reason to include a project's #IRB certification and/or #grant approval letters in the online repository for said project? I have my projects stored on my #OSFramework account through my #GitHub currently, and code is obvious, but not sure about certs. Maybe @briannosek has some advice on this?

#science

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Last week's GDPR/CCPA spam is a Princeton study but it's still very wrong. Careless selection, fake e-mails not declaring it's research, and worst ending with a legal threat that is a lie. Pleased with the responsiveness of the people at Radboud I approached about this, looking forward to Princeton responding to complaint as to what went wrong.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/12/its-research-but-still-very-wrong/

#ccpa #complaint #gdpr #IRB #princeton