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Ivan Oransky

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Editor in chief, @_thetransmitter; Distinguished Journalist In Residence, @NYU_Journalism; co-founder, @RetractionWatch; past president, @AHCJ.

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Marcelle Lapicque: A forgotten pioneer of neuroscience

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By Angie Voyles Askham , Rebecca Horne , Ivan Oransky
| The Transmitter
In the early 20th century, Marcelle Lapicque ran her own physiology lab at Sorbonne University and did groundbreaking work decoding how signals travel through the nervous system. Yet her legacy has been largely lost to history. That may be because of her gender—and her race, according to a paper published last year. Read the transcript.
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What should the field prioritize over the next 10 years?

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By Ivan Oransky, Timothy O’Leary, Edward S. Boyden, Konrad P Kording
| The Transmitter
On the mark: Neuroscientists are eyeing multiple targets moving forward. Illustration by Respondents pointed to a range of challenges in basic neuroscience—such as understanding naturalistic behaviors, intelligence and embodied cognition—and called for more circuit-level research, more precise brain recordings and more work in alternative models. Just as many pushed for a translational pivot.
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Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words

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By Ivan Oransky
| Retraction Watch
I first became aware of the work of Drummond Rennie almost by accident: By borrowing his office. It was the summer of 1997, and as a rising fourth-year medical student, I was spending a month at JAMA as the co-editor-in-chief of its then-medical student section, Pulse. Rennie, who was deputy editor of the journal at the time, was mostly traveling, so the staff installed me in his office, overflowing with books and manuscripts.
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