These days I find the literature on improving critical thinking and scientific literacy kind of depressing. The many overlapping and diverging concepts…
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Science Communication Philosophy, Scientific Literacy… and FlatteryRead more
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Science Communication Could There Be Some Viable Challengers to Google Scholar on the Horizon?Read more
In 2019, I wrote a pair of posts about the risks of our reliance on Google Scholar (GS), and search engine alternatives…
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Peer review research roundup 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2022Read more
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Science Communication Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some MythsRead more
The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…
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Science Communication Some Shortcuts to Giving Mastodon a TryRead more
We’ve been conditioned by a super-slick glide path to getting hooked into commercial social media. So facing the comparative complexity of Mastodon…
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Science Communication Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They MeanRead more
Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up…
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Science Communication Reflecting on Twitter, White Flight, & “Quote Tweet” Tensions at MastodonRead more
Why can’t we “quote boost” at Mastodon, the way we can “quote tweet” at Twitter? That might sound like an innocuous question…
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Science Communication Mapping the Mastodon Migration: Is It a One-Way Trip or an Each-Way Bet for Science Twitter?Read more
Like many people, I opened a Mastodon account on the weekend the Musk era began on Twitter. This post picks up from…
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Covid-19 So What Was the Impact of Those Covid Vax Safety Pauses?Read more
When several European countries paused use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in March 2021, the criticism from many commentators was swift, extreme…
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Evidence What’s Happening When Living Systematic Reviews…Stop?Read more
I’m not sure when the name “living systematic review” was coined, but it was fleshed out in an article in 2014 by Julian Elliott…
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Covid-19 Intranasal & Co: A Very Big Month for Mucosal Covid VaccinesRead more
Authorization for another 2 new vaccines, a potentially critical international licensing deal, and a new phase 3 trial: This month saw a…
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Science Communication Experiments on Naming Authors in Peer Review – Now With a New Kid on the BlockRead more
It’s been 6 years since the last results arrived from a randomized trial of revealing or concealing authors’ names for journal peer…