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Join the BNA
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Do one thing for credibility
By exploring preregistration
Are you a student in neuroscience or another bioscience?
Undergraduate? Do one thing for credibility by finding out about preregistration, e.g. at cos.io/prereg.
Postgraduate? Consider preregistering one of your projects or present a preregistration poster. Also look into digitalising workflow, e.g., using an Electronic Lab Notebook.
By trying a new open & reproducible publishing initiatives
Are you a researcher in neuroscience or other bioscience?
Do one thing for credibility by publishing null results, preregistering research or submitting a Registered report where appropriate, and using CRediT wherever possible. If you lead a lab them make sure your team are aware of new approaches in publishing.
By joining the UKRN
The newly formed UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) brings together funders, publishers, Universities, learned societies and other stakeholders to ensure coordinated efforts across the sector.
Do one thing for credibility by formally joining the UKRN. For more information about joining the UKRN can be found here.
By sharing your knowledge
Do you work in industry or the commercial sector?
Do one thing for credibility by talking to an academic friend or colleague about the issues they are facing, share your knowledge with them, and take the chance to discuss how credibility is important to translate neuroscience research into real-world applications.
By having journal policies which support replicability of research
Are you a publisher or editor of a scientific journal?
Do one thing for credibility by accepting replication studies and null results in your journal, and ensuring methods sections are comprehensive enough to allow the published work to be replicated.
By supporting the sector to help make science open
Do you fund neuroscience research?
Do one thing for credibility by talking to your grant holders about what they are doing to contribute to this cultural change and open science, ask them what they would like to see change and how the funding you offer could support this.
By including caveats and limitations
Do you work in the media?
Do one thing for credibility by including caveats or limitations when writing science or health news, and reporting what a study doesn't show as well as what it might, ensuring column inches for the important detail as much as the headline grabbers (see Adams et. al, BMC Medicine (2019) for how this won't reduce interest from your readership!)
Be InCredible by asking a friend to join the BNA.
If you do one thing: Join the voices of neuroscience for the greater good of the sector.
People power: your neuroscience needs you! Be the change you want to see.