Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s departure makes overworked researchers ponder: how do we prevent misconduct in our own labs?
asserting that running a lab is a full-time responsibility and calling on universities to reconsider hiring researchers into administrative roles if they plan to juggle the two jobs.in San Francisco, California, who is among those who have pointed out irregularities in work co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne, agrees. “How could you possibly do both jobs correctly and with the right amount of attention that these jobs need?” she says.
But researchers are often asked to hold administrative roles while running their labs, Wilcock says, and most in such positions — even if they are lower profile than university president — are not accused of research misconduct. “That’s a cop out,” she adds.
The controversy highlights the importance of senior investigators being present in their labs and hosting regular meetings at which team members can review data, Wilcock says. Her policy is to maintain stringent records in her lab so that she has a rigorous paper trail, and she reviews it regularly.The report faulted Tessier-Lavigne for creating a lab culture that fostered an “unusual frequency” of data improprieties.
Wilcock says it’s important that senior investigators stress to new trainees that experiments sometimes don’t work and that hypotheses are often wrong. But it’s also necessary to celebrate when this occurs, because unexpected results can open other doors, she says. “Science is not about reinforcing dogma; it’s okay to not get the data you were expecting,” she adds. If you create a “pressure-cooker environment in your lab, you’re setting yourself up for failure”.
Lab leaders are often brilliant scientists, but not all are adept at managing and training people, McLemore says. That means institutions should invest more in leadership training for early-career researchers setting up a lab, she says.Even if lab leaders have put all the safeguards in place, it’s still possible that problems with data — and even misconduct — will arise.
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