Shelley Batts

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Shelley Batts
Shelley Batts
Nationality	United States
Fields	neuroscience
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Known for	Retrospectacle

Shelley Batts is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Retrospectacle, a neuroscience blog that explores science from the perspective of an "upbeat savvy female scientist who wants world domination one first-author paper at a time". Her blog is featured by the popular science hosting group ScienceBlogs, owned by the SEED Media Group.

In 2007, Retrospectacle made internet headlines after being served a notice by the Wiley journal, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, claiming that Batts violated their copyrights by using figures from a paper whose results she was featuring.^[1] Batts used the incident to create a discussion and raise awareness of the rights of bloggers to discuss academic results and reproduce figures. Other science blogs rallied to her cause, defending fair use rights,^[1] and Wiley reversed their position, issuing her an apology within days.^{[citation needed]} The incident has been considered a case study in fair use on the internet.