FANDOM NAME: The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct (Web interactive movie) WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Bear with me here. It's a production by the Office of Research Integrity from the US Department of Health and Human Services, and it is the DRAMATIC AND TRAGIC TALE of RESEARCH MISCONDUCT. In interactive FMV visual novel form!
You get to play one of four people involved in the lab: Kim, a grad student whose research gets appropriated and rewritten for a journal article by golden boy postdoc and former fling Greg; Hardik, an international postdoc worried about his pregnant wife, his visa, and the fact that his experiments aren't going as well as Greg's; Aaron, the PI of the lab who has worked with Greg for ever; and Beth, the Research Integrity Officer of the university. There is DRAMA. There is BACKSTORY. There are FEELINGS. There is Asian mother guilt. There are in-laws dropping in. There is balancing work and home life. There is sneakiness. There is drinking. There is ethics. There are BAD ENDINGS.
I nominated Kim and Hardik because they're both great. It's surprisingly fun for a HHS production meant to teach you how to keep a neat lab notebook. And because it's a public service announcement, it's absolutely free!
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): https://ori.hhs.gov/thelab is the landing page, where you can learn a bit more and click through to play in a number of different languages (with subtitles available.)
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WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Bear with me here. It's a production by the Office of Research Integrity from the US Department of Health and Human Services, and it is the DRAMATIC AND TRAGIC TALE of RESEARCH MISCONDUCT. In interactive FMV visual novel form!
You get to play one of four people involved in the lab: Kim, a grad student whose research gets appropriated and rewritten for a journal article by golden boy postdoc and former fling Greg; Hardik, an international postdoc worried about his pregnant wife, his visa, and the fact that his experiments aren't going as well as Greg's; Aaron, the PI of the lab who has worked with Greg for ever; and Beth, the Research Integrity Officer of the university. There is DRAMA. There is BACKSTORY. There are FEELINGS. There is Asian mother guilt. There are in-laws dropping in. There is balancing work and home life. There is sneakiness. There is drinking. There is ethics. There are BAD ENDINGS.
I nominated Kim and Hardik because they're both great. It's surprisingly fun for a HHS production meant to teach you how to keep a neat lab notebook. And because it's a public service announcement, it's absolutely free!
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): https://ori.hhs.gov/thelab is the landing page, where you can learn a bit more and click through to play in a number of different languages (with subtitles available.)