{"id":213238,"date":"2022-08-12T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=213238"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:40:04","slug":"friday-funny-clownfish-climate-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=213238","title":{"rendered":"Friday Funny \u2013 Clownfish Climate Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"713\" data-attachment-id=\"213239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=213239\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?fit=974%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"974,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-423\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?fit=723%2C713&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?resize=723%2C713&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?w=974&amp;ssl=1 974w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?resize=768%2C757&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Star marine ecologist committed misconduct, university says<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding against Danielle Dixson vindicates whistleblowers who questioned high-profile work on ocean acidification [due to rising atmospheric CO\u2082 levels]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A major controversy in marine biology took a new twist last week when the University of Delaware (UD) found one of its star scientists guilty of research misconduct. The university has confirmed to Science that it has accepted an investigative panel\u2019s conclusion that marine ecologist Danielle Dixson committed fabrication and falsification in work on fish behavior and coral reefs. The university is seeking the retraction of three of Dixson\u2019s papers and \u201chas notified the appropriate federal agencies,\u201d a spokesperson says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the papers is a study about coral reef recovery that Dixson published in Science in 2014, and for which the journal issued an Editorial Expression of Concern in February. Science\u2014whose News and Editorial teams operate independently of each other\u2014retracted that paper today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigative panel\u2019s draft report, which Science\u2019s News team has seen in heavily redacted form, paints a damning picture of Dixson\u2019s scientific work, which included many studies that appeared to show Earth\u2019s rising carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) levels can have dramatic effects on fish behavior and ecology. \u201cThe Committee was repeatedly struck by a serial pattern of sloppiness, poor recordkeeping, copying and pasting within spreadsheets, errors within many papers under investigation, and deviation from established animal ethics protocols,\u201d wrote the panel, made up of three UD researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dixson did not respond to requests for comment. She \u201cadamantly denies any and all allegations of wrongdoing, and will vigorously appeal any finding of research misconduct,\u201d Dixson\u2019s lawyer, Kristina Larsen, wrote in an email to Science. Larsen describes Dixson as a \u201cbrilliant, hardworking female scientist\u201d who was \u201ctargeted\u201d by a group of scientists who \u201cchose to \u2018convict\u2019 Dr. Dixson in the court of public opinion\u201d by sharing their accusations with a Science reporter last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complete Story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/star-marine-ecologist-committed-misconduct-university-says#.YvKM57NC73Y.twitter\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/star-marine-ecologist-committed-misconduct-university-says#.YvKM57NC73Y.twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">Watts Up With That?<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 12, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-watts-up-with-that wp-block-embed-watts-up-with-that wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DsWFjvNdz5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2022\/08\/12\/friday-funny-clownfish-climate-science\/\">Friday Funny &#8211; Clownfish Climate Science<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Friday Funny &#8211; Clownfish Climate Science&#8221; &#8212; Watts Up With That?\" src=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2022\/08\/12\/friday-funny-clownfish-climate-science\/embed\/#?secret=MlyNspNzIi#?secret=DsWFjvNdz5\" data-secret=\"DsWFjvNdz5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star marine ecologist committed misconduct, university says Finding against Danielle Dixson vindicates whistleblowers who questioned high-profile work on ocean acidification [due to rising atmospheric CO\u2082 levels] A major controversy in marine biology took a new twist last week when the University of Delaware (UD) found one of its star scientists guilty of research misconduct. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":213239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-423.png?fit=974%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Ttk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":212901,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=212901","url_meta":{"origin":213238,"position":0},"title":"Star Marine Ecologist Committed Misconduct, University Says","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019ve covered Dixson\u2019s and Munday\u2019s work on ocean acidification and fish behavior previously and how it broke down under scrutiny. https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2022\/02\/21\/the-decline-effect-part-1-ocean-acidification\/ And here. https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2022\/02\/03\/climate-fish-scare-turns-out-to-be-just-a-fish-story\/ Now the University of Delaware has concluded: \u2026that marine ecologist Danielle Dixson committed fabrication and falsification in work on fish behavior and coral reefs. 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