“This is preliminary” Someone mentions batch effects “This is outside the scope of the study” “Reviewer 2” is mentioned Funding agency acronym is used without explanation A figure was remade at the last minute Someone mentions lack of funding A figure is described as “self- explanatory” A figure legend is longer than the text An experiment is described as “tricky” “The data speak for themselves” Coffee is treated as a research tool A method section references another paper for details A timeline is described as “ambitious” A PhD student explains a senior author’s work Someone says “In theory…” “We’ll fix it in revision” Someone mentions impact factor Someone mentions resubmission “The sample size is limited” A deadline is missed “This opens many new questions” Someone mentions sample storage issues A control experiment is added late Someone mentions bioinformatics troubleshooting Someone mentions working on the weekend A lab meeting runs over time Someone says “It’s well known that…” “Let’s discuss this offline” “We don’t fully understand the mechanism” Someone mentions ethics approval delays A hypothesis is refined after seeing the results A meeting could have been an email A protocol is followed “with minor modifications” “This should be straightforward” “We are underpowered” A method is described as “robust” A PI says “Interesting…” “It worked once” “Due to time constraints…” “We need more data” “This will strengthen the paper” “We had to optimize this extensively” A method only one person in the lab understands A collaboration is called “very productive” A negative result is called “interesting” Someone apologizes for too many slides A reviewer requests more references A reviewer asks for an unrelated experiment “We almost gave up on this” “Statistically significant” is emphasized A grant is described as “competitive” Someone mentions a rejected manuscript A deadline is extended A result is called “unexpected” “The results are reproducible… mostly” Someone references Supplementary Figure 12 A statistical test is chosen post hoc A study is described as “proof of concept” A dataset is described as “messy” “This is preliminary” Someone mentions batch effects “This is outside the scope of the study” “Reviewer 2” is mentioned Funding agency acronym is used without explanation A figure was remade at the last minute Someone mentions lack of funding A figure is described as “self- explanatory” A figure legend is longer than the text An experiment is described as “tricky” “The data speak for themselves” Coffee is treated as a research tool A method section references another paper for details A timeline is described as “ambitious” A PhD student explains a senior author’s work Someone says “In theory…” “We’ll fix it in revision” Someone mentions impact factor Someone mentions resubmission “The sample size is limited” A deadline is missed “This opens many new questions” Someone mentions sample storage issues A control experiment is added late Someone mentions bioinformatics troubleshooting Someone mentions working on the weekend A lab meeting runs over time Someone says “It’s well known that…” “Let’s discuss this offline” “We don’t fully understand the mechanism” Someone mentions ethics approval delays A hypothesis is refined after seeing the results A meeting could have been an email A protocol is followed “with minor modifications” “This should be straightforward” “We are underpowered” A method is described as “robust” A PI says “Interesting…” “It worked once” “Due to time constraints…” “We need more data” “This will strengthen the paper” “We had to optimize this extensively” A method only one person in the lab understands A collaboration is called “very productive” A negative result is called “interesting” Someone apologizes for too many slides A reviewer requests more references A reviewer asks for an unrelated experiment “We almost gave up on this” “Statistically significant” is emphasized A grant is described as “competitive” Someone mentions a rejected manuscript A deadline is extended A result is called “unexpected” “The results are reproducible… mostly” Someone references Supplementary Figure 12 A statistical test is chosen post hoc A study is described as “proof of concept” A dataset is described as “messy”
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
“This is preliminary”
Someone mentions batch effects
“This is outside the scope of the study”
“Reviewer 2” is mentioned
Funding agency acronym is used without explanation
A figure was remade at the last minute
Someone mentions lack of funding
A figure is described as “self-explanatory”
A figure legend is longer than the text
An experiment is described as “tricky”
“The data speak for themselves”
Coffee is treated as a research tool
A method section references another paper for details
A timeline is described as “ambitious”
A PhD student explains a senior author’s work
Someone says “In theory…”
“We’ll fix it in revision”
Someone mentions impact factor
Someone mentions resubmission
“The sample size is limited”
A deadline is missed
“This opens many new questions”
Someone mentions sample storage issues
A control experiment is added late
Someone mentions bioinformatics troubleshooting
Someone mentions working on the weekend
A lab meeting runs over time
Someone says “It’s well known that…”
“Let’s discuss this offline”
“We don’t fully understand the mechanism”
Someone mentions ethics approval delays
A hypothesis is refined after seeing the results
A meeting could have been an email
A protocol is followed “with minor modifications”
“This should be straightforward”
“We are underpowered”
A method is described as “robust”
A PI says “Interesting…”
“It worked once”
“Due to time constraints…”
“We need more data”
“This will strengthen the paper”
“We had to optimize this extensively”
A method only one person in the lab understands
A collaboration is called “very productive”
A negative result is called “interesting”
Someone apologizes for too many slides
A reviewer requests more references
A reviewer asks for an unrelated experiment
“We almost gave up on this”
“Statistically significant” is emphasized
A grant is described as “competitive”
Someone mentions a rejected manuscript
A deadline is extended
A result is called “unexpected”
“The results are reproducible… mostly”
Someone references Supplementary Figure 12
A statistical test is chosen post hoc
A study is described as “proof of concept”
A dataset is described as “messy”