Natalie Simon

HIV research at @UCT_Research to get a boost as three emerging researcher awarded prestigious @NIH @Fogarty_NIH Emerging Global Leader Award. Congratulations to Dr Anna-Ursula Happel, @Hlengi246, @rabie_stephan Read more: bit.ly/4cYD3G6

I so enjoyed working with Prof Klaas Sijtsma on this piece about his excellent book: Never Waste a Good Crisis. He tackles a topic not often spoken about in #researchintegrity the challenges of statistical amateurism among researchers. @WCRIFoundation scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/08/07/gue…

Believe it or not, #ResearchIntegrity affects everyone! At #WCRI2024 Director Garrity sat down with @chrisgrafpub, Research Integrity Director at @SpringerNature and Trustee at @C0PE to get his opinion on why research integrity is so important. Check it out. #SheilaAsks

#CapeStorm #BuyABed 🕯️🕯️🕯️

#CapeStorm: Are you willing to sacrifice your coffee and support the less fortunate during this bad weather? Let's make a difference together. #BuyABed #SupportHomeless #capefloods

How do we ensure trustworthy science? An insightful piece on #OpenScience by @monkavour via @LSEImpactBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Looking back at highlights of #WCRI2024. Congratulations to all our award winners, including the Anderson-Kleinert Diversity award winners: Feziwe Mseleni, @TanyaCoetzee12, and @time4virtue_Ike, and Excellence in Doctoral Research Awards: Xinqu Zhang and @stavaleraf

Congratulations to Feziwe Mseleni, Chiedozie Ike and Tanya Coetzee the Three Winners of The Anderson-Kleinert Diversity Award at #WCRI2024

Looking back at some of the highlights of #WCRI2024. Congratulations to the award winners @mm_pittelkow, Pritha Sarkar, @LodewijkPet, @Marguerite_OR, Judith Murungi and @manzanamarilla. Winners of Best Presentation and Best Oral Presentation awards.

Nature retracts highly cited 2002 paper that claimed adult stem cells could become any type of cell @ellie_kincaid writes @RetractionWatch "Verfaillie, agreed with the retraction. She now has four retractions, by our count" #more-129437" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/nat…

@wilkinsoncape I also live in this area, and the difference is it gets fixed immediately. Teams start working on the problems nearly immediately. In Joburg they go for days with no response. Also - part of Simon's Town problem is the infrastructure that is meant to be kept up by the navy...

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A really good article by @monkavour, written for and relevant to #WCRI2024

#WCRI2024 @karinv warns of IP leakage in using open #AI tools for unpublished work or funding proposals. Really important point to consider and I don't know how many stop to think about that.

@karinv Some good aspects of GenAI: ● generating summary abstracts ● explaining results ● producing multi-lingual abstracts #WCRI2024

Up next @karinv on Impacts of generativr #AI on research. The good, the bad and the ugly. #WCRI2024

Shanshan Yu @fujitsulabs on examples of application of their AI tech to research and business; and their GenAI products - I have found details at blog.fltech.dev/entry/2024/05/… - A bit of a sales pitch ;) #WCRI2024

@AbalkinaAnna Now we are all dying to know the details ;)

So glad to have this tool with me during #WCRI2024. And I'm very happy to help one participant in a particularly unusual and frustrating situation.

#AI hallucinations are still a really big problem in generative AI and, with good reason, undermines trust. Shanshan Yu outlines strategies for hallucinations detection. #WCRI2024

What do people expect from generative AI? Performance #WCRI2024

It's a problem in the Global South that I don't think will be solved as simply as giving a few months' notice to GS institutions/researchers to get institutional email addresses. Some universities in Africa struggle to get most basic IT support. #WCRI2024