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Chronic pain: new insight into how a voltage-gated sodium channel isoform 1.7 can be targetted to reduce pain in rat models. Just out in #PNAS ow.ly/5Qtu50PvqvR

New retraction of paper by Mark Smyth formerly from QIMR Berghofer - ow.ly/5JwY50PYRcE This will soon be added to his three prior retractions listed on Retractions Australia ow.ly/R9vt50PYRcC

Retractions Australia launches new videos on research integrity which builds on our Quality Output Checklist and Content Assessment - the QuOCCA ow.ly/3h1550Q7fc7

Research Quality and Reproducibility: our new videos now available from neura.edu.au/resources-tool… and from DORA ow.ly/sOBh50Q9eqA

New review summarises the use of an upper limb profiling approach to quantify upper limb performance and motor impairment - across ageing, stroke, MS and Parkinson's disease Journal of Physiology ow.ly/q4jX50QfNcC

Does fixing Journal guidelines fix author performance: not really. Here's our audit of the Journal of Neurophysiology. ow.ly/Wfwq50QfNf8

Research misconduct shabbiness: UNSW is taking more than 2 years to do a 'preliminary' assessment of shonky published research papers from its brain researchers. ow.ly/QoV850Qhbq7 How long will the real investigation take?

Research Integrity? UNSW takes > 2 years for preliminary assessment of its brain researchers! Conflict of interest drives self-regulation by universities. Australia needs an independent research integrity office to weed out scientific misconduct. ow.ly/jHJy50QhbrH

Markus Amann (@UofU_Anesthesia), Simranjit Sidhu (Uni of Adelaide), Chris McNeil (UBC School Of Health & Exercise Sciences), and SimonGandevia (Dave Mauldin) have written a letter of response to da Silva Machado and Amiri. Journal of Physiology ow.ly/AYxG50QhIVl

Dario Farina and Simon Gandevia: our new review on motor control In J Physiol physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Proprioception: our opinion piece on proprioception has evoked interest. ow.ly/TUP850Qo0Av Now we need to consider exactly what is 'low' level and 'high' level proprioception. There will be a spectrum!

Today we had the privilege of hosting Swiss national wheelchair rugby player David Mzee on a tour of NeuRA’s Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre, led by Deputy Director Prof Simon Gandevia Simon Gandevia and Professor Jane Butler. 🙌

Our recent short summary of 3 papers on acute intermittent hypoxia as a way to increase output to muscles. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Further serious work is needed in our view.

Proprioception: our view is that there are low- and high-levels of proprioception - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35142561/. Some key tests of this are reported in our recent paper in the Journal of Physiology. ow.ly/KxKg50SB7UH #JPhysiol

This #Connections article from Simon Gandevia and Jane E. Butler (NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia)) examines whether acute intermittent hypoxia enhances motoneuronal output! 📜buff.ly/3MKhuOT

RETRACTIONS AUSTRALIA: our website documents retractions by authors with an Australian affiliation. It has recently been updated. Keep an eye on the top 10! retractions.au

Yet again: dodgy science is not checked in Australia - new report exposes the well-known problems. Here's the Liam Mannix story in the Age. ow.ly/V04w50UlnAR Auditor's scathing report on NHMRC is here: anao.gov.au/work/performan…

More dodgy science in Australia (e.g. at UNSW). New report exposes the well-known problems. Here's the Liam Mannix story in the Age. theage.com.au/national/dodgy… Auditor's scathing report on NHMRC is here: anao.gov.au/work/performan…

I have moved to Bluesky from Twitter X. I will post some matters shortly. Follow me on Bluesky Simon Gandevia.bsky.social

International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me. I am also moving to Bsky too Simon Gandevia.bsky.social