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| thesis_url = https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/842/
| thesis_url = https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/842/
| thesis_year = 2010
| thesis_year = 2010 (withdrawn)
| doctoral_advisor = [[Susan Riechert]]
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| academic_advisors = {{ublist|Andy Sih|Jay Stachowicz}}
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Jonathan Pruitt
Born
Jonathan Neal Pruitt

Florida
NationalityAmerican
Education
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSociality in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus: Behavioral Correlates and Adaptive Consequences (2010 (withdrawn))
Doctoral advisorSusan Riechert
Other academic advisors
  • Andy Sih
  • Jay Stachowicz
Websitepnb.mcmaster.ca/pruittlab/index.html

Jonathan Neal Pruitt is an American Associate Professor of behavioral ecology and the Canada 150 Research Chair in Biological Dystopias at McMaster University.[1][2] Pruitt's research, now in question, focused primarily on social spiders.[1] In early 2020, much of Pruitt's published research was identified as having serious data irregularities, and Pruitt was alleged to have fabricated research data.[3]

Career

Pruitt completed a postdoc at the UC Davis Center for Population Biology and was hired as an assistant professor in the department at biological sciences that the University of Pittsburgh in 2011.[4] He later moved to UC Santa Barbara and then, in 2018, to McMaster University.[5] His research was previously funded by the National Science Foundation.[5][6]

Data irregularities

Concerns about the integrity of Pruitt's research first publicly emerged in January 2020.[7] In February 2020, McMaster University announced that it was reviewing 17 of his publications,[7] and 23 journals were reviewing publications by Pruitt.[5] By February 7, seven papers authored by Pruitt had been retracted or were in the process of being retracted.[7] Pruitt responded to the allegations by stating that the irregularities in his data were mistakes,[8] and he obtained legal counsel who cautioned journals and coauthors not to retract papers until institutional investigations were complete.[9]

Pruitt has been compared to Diederik Stapel and Jan Hendrik Schön, who were also considered rising stars in their fields before the discovery of their fraudulent publications.[10]

Retracted publications, Corrections, and Expressions of Concern

Complete list of retracted publications
Paper title Year Originally Published Journal Link to paper retraction notice or statement
Individual- and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness 2011 Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-021-02997-3
Iterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous 2012 The American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.1086/713144
Behavioral Types of Predator and Prey Jointly Determine Prey Survival: Potential Implications for the Maintenance of Within-Species Behavioral Variation 2012 The American Naturalist Correction: https://doi.org/10.1086/713144
Behavioral Types of Predator and Prey Jointly Determine Prey Survival: Potential Implications for the Maintenance of Within-Species Behavioral Variation 2012 The American Naturalist Expression of concern: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714867
Linking levels of personality: personalities of the 'average' and 'most extreme' group members predict colony-level personality 2013 Animal Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.030
Individual personalities shape task differentiation in a social spider 2013 Proceedings B https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2021.0335?af=R
Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider 2014 Proceedings B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0077
Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions 2014 Nature Editors Note: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13811
Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider 2014 Biology Letters https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0062
Individual differences in personality and behavioural plasticity facilitate division of labour in social spider colonies 2014 Animal Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.015
Individual and Group Performance Suffers from Social Niche Disruption 2016 The American Naturalist https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/708066
The Effect of Keystone Individuals on Collective Outcomes Can Be Mediated through Interactions or Behavioral Persistence 2016 The American Naturalist Correction Statement: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/712423
Prolonged food restriction decreases body condition and reduces repeatability in personality traits in web-building spiders 2016 Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-021-02998-2
The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success 2016 Proceedings B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0255
Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus 2018 The American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.1086/712483
Behaviour, morphology and microhabitat use: what drives individual niche variation? 2019 Biology Letters https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0588

Personal life

Pruitt is gay.[6] He was born in central Florida.[6] He is currently writing a fantasy novel.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Marcus, Author Adam (29 January 2020). "Authors questioning papers at nearly two dozen journals in wake of spider paper retraction". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. ^ Chairs, Canada 150 Research (2017-05-08). "Canada 150 Research Chairs". www.canada150.chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  3. ^ "McMaster University researcher under fire for data irregularities". Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  4. ^ "Dr. Jonathan Pruitt to Join Biological Sciences | Department of Biological Sciences | University of Pittsburgh". www.biology.pitt.edu.
  5. ^ a b c Pennisi, Elizabeth (31 January 2020). "Spider biologist denies suspicions of widespread data fraud in his animal personality research". Science. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "Jonathan Pruitt". 500 Queer Scientists. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  7. ^ a b c Viglione, Giuliana (7 February 2020). "'Avalanche' of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community". Nature. 578 (7794): 199–200. Bibcode:2020Natur.578..199V. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00287-y. PMID 32047306.
  8. ^ "Top Spider Biologist's Research Under Fire". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  9. ^ PennisiMar. 12, Elizabeth; 2020; Pm, 2:10 (2020-03-12). "Embattled spider biologist seeks to delay additional retractions of problematic papers". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2020-08-29.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Social Spiders and Science Fraud". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  11. ^ @Agelenopsis (23 May 2021). "I am querying my first novel and want to know what lessons you learned when you published your first book! Commen…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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