It’s coming up to 6 months since Musk took over Twitter, sending many of us over to Mastodon. “Scalloped growth” is what…
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Science Communication Mastodon’s Growth, and Communities BranchingRead more
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Science Communication Philosophy, Scientific Literacy… and FlatteryRead more
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 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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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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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…
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Science Communication Bad and Good(-ish) News on the Abstract Spin CycleRead more
Abstracts are central to the science communication process. The words in them can lead searchers to find a paper. Because they’re the…
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Science Communication Another Bit of Pandemic Fallout: The Weaponization of Absolute Risk StatisticsRead more
Back in the good old days, we only had to tear our hair out when people used relative risks without context, thereby…
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the RailsRead more
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…