Comments on: Can you tweet from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meetings?

By: sally

sally — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:27:49 +0000

Agree totally with Nancy. Oddly, I was just writing a similar comment in another forum about the same topic.

Generally, if tweeting or blogging about meetings I use common sense and don’t mention unpublished data, but it has occurred to me that it does create a conundrum that many scientists fail to see. Essentially they have revealed the results themselves and potentially broken a publication’s embargo.

By: Nancy Lapid

Nancy Lapid — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:15:27 +0000

In my many years of editing research papers and helping researchers write their talks, we always kept unpublished data out of the talks. If the researchers have submitted their data for publication, and then they present it in a talk, or discuss it in a semi-public forum, then the “secret” is out, and it’s not the audience’s fault.