Fwd: [usif_announce] FREE - Scientific Digital Images workshop - next week
Mike Berman
From: Massani, Brooke Beam - (bbeam) <bb...@email.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:20 PM
Subject: [usif_announce] FREE - Scientific Digital Images workshop - next week
A recent study* found that approximately 1 out of every 25 papers had “problematic” image data. Do you and all of your lab members (potential co-authors) know how to properly work with digital image data?
To learn more, sign up to attend the annual Introduction to Scientific Digital Images workshop, which is is coming up next week on Thursday, August 18, 2016. We will cover topics from the basics of what an image is, workflow & file format issues, image manipulation ethics, and avoiding common pitfalls in Photoshop & ImageJ.
For more information on this FREE workshop and to register, see: http://microscopy.arizona.edu/dig_image_workshop/index
NOTE: Graduate students and Postdocs receiving funding from the NIH or NSF are required to have training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR, see: http://rgw.arizona.edu/research-compliance/rcr/federal-requirements). This workshop counts as one elective course.
* A 2016 paper published in mBio visually screened over 20,000 publications looking for image manipulation issues, the authors found that "Overall, 3.8% of published papers contained problematic figures, with at least half exhibiting features suggestive of deliberate manipulation." (http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/3/e00809-16).
Doug Cromey
Workshop coordinator
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