In 2014, I returned to the Biology Department after being the director of a York University research institute for 7 years. Based on that experience, I expanded the topics discussed at my weekly lab meetings to include more of the so-called "soft-skills" that were not being explicitly covered in science courses . This included the topic of ethics in research. I also introduced science communication training for my students. This included showing students how to make Pecha Kucha style presentations. Here is my 20 slide x 20 seconds talk on the topic of ethical behaviour in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

1. Behaving Ethically in
Science Research:
What does that mean?
Dawn Bazely
Biology Department, York University, Toronto
My Pecha Kucha presentation
29 September 2014 Lab Meeting
206 Lumbers

2. Academic
(Dis)honesty
Do you remember those parts of your
course handouts referring to the York
University policy on Academic Honesty?

3. –YorkU website on Academic Integrity
http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/ho
w.html
“Academic integrity is the term used to
refer to some of the most important values
of the university community. ”

4. Academic honesty
Speaks to assumption that we behave ethically
wrt:
Plagiarism
Fabricating data
Overall, it’s about dealing respectfully with your
colleagues (supervisors, students, peers)

6. Avoiding
plagiarism
Cite your sources and do due diligence.
This applies to professors as much as to
students.

8. Tweets cited so far.
One Mapúa (OneMapua). “Promote ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY. Tweet using the hash tag
#NoToCheating #BeABuilderNotADestroyer
pic.twitter.com/wq9AWOgqf2.” 21 September
2014, 11:04 a.m. Tweet.
Student Conduct (NCSUConduct). “.@ncstate
Stick to your values, act with integrity.
bit.ly/1q8IGH1 #thinkanddo #ncstate (Image c/o
google) pic.twitter.com/TMTk3OzfEp.” 28 August
2014, 1:31 p.m. Tweet.

9. Moving beyond
undergraduate
learning
The USA’s National Institutes of Health
Ombudsman’s office has wonderful resources:
http://ombudsman.nih.gov/whatsNew.html
and tools:
http://ombudsman.nih.gov/tools.html
UPDATED 18 Sept 2016. The Field Guide is at:
https://ccrod.cancer.gov/confluence/display/NIHOM
BUD/Home;jsessionid=4C049B34FAE7265CE446E
6E88DAEC5F9

10. Pretty much all science these days is team-based
and collaborative
There are frequently conflicts: it’s part of human
nature
Knowing how to recognize and handle different
behaviours that lead to conflict is key to
professionalism and good team experiences

11. Clock wise from left: from pp 45, 5 & 1 of Bennett, Gadlin & Levine-
Findlay (2010) Collaboration & Science: A Field Guide

12. Personality type plays a key role in team dynamics
What’s your personality type?
If you haven’t explored this, you should
If only to find out that only about 16% of people
actually think like a scientist!
Here’s results from an online personality test that I
took

14. Who watches for ethical behaviour?
In structured courses, profs check your writing for
plagiarism, as well as grammar,
The next level of quality control is peer-review
When that fails, websites like Retraction Watch
keep track

16. Tragedy of the RIKEN case
stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency
(STAP) paper, rejected from Science, Cell &
Nature journals was eventually published in
Nature, and then retracted
Dr. Yoshiki Sasai, a stem cell scientist and deputy
director at the RIKEN Center for Developmental
Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and one of the co-
authors, who was cleared of science misconduct
charges, committed suicide in August 2014

18. –Retraction Watch
for an analysis of the reviews, see Paul Knoepfler’s
lab blog: http://bit.ly/1ulMGFF
““Truly extraordinary,” “simply not
credible,” “suspiciously sharp:” A STAP
stem cell peer review report revealed”

19. The pressures to produce stunning research
results in stem cell research occur in many
labs, not just RIKEN: http://bit.ly/1rphA0r

20. Should scientists be held to higher
standards of honesty?
Richard Smith in a British
Medical Journal Blog says,
yes.
http://bit.ly/10bKAgB
Do you agree?