The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…
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Science Communication A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be DifferentRead more
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Science Communication Wikipedia Is Vital: Channeling Energy Into Micro-Edits Is a Win-Win-WinRead more
Wikipedia is, “without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation,” wrote Josh Dzieza recently. It’s a target because of that, squarely in the…
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Science Communication Six Months Later: What Their Response on ME/CFS Tells Us About the Cochrane CollaborationRead more
Six months ago, I wrote a post called “When journal, scientific society, and community values clash.” I recounted the tale of the…
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Science Communication Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety NetRead more
A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2024Read more
Back in 2019 I wrote a couple of posts summarizing what we had learned from research about peer review at journals. Since…
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Evidence Paths to Full Open Access for Cochrane ReviewsRead more
The question keeps coming up when I discuss the challenges facing the Cochrane Collaboration: What’s happening with open access for Cochrane reviews?…
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Science Communication What if We Can’t Rely on PubMed?Read more
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
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Science Communication When Journal, Scientific Society, and Community Values ClashRead more
A process I’ve been involved with at a journal recently exploded. It was meant to resolve a controversy about a publication, not…
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Covid-19 Getting Ready for More mRNA Vaccine Fear-Mongering: A CompendiumRead more
Recently, I wrote about a depressingly successful campaign against the introduction of a next generation Covid vaccine in Japan. It is a…
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Science Communication What’s Wrong With How We Talk About Preprints?Read more
“When you see the term ‘preprint’ in a scientific news article, what do you interpret it to mean?” That’s the key question…
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Science Communication More Pandemic Research on Public Trust and ScientistsRead more
I’m glad researchers didn’t waste this chance to study public trust while attention to scientists was so intense – and especially since…
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Evidence Scientific Uncertainty Isn’t a Justification for Getting Things Seriously WrongRead more
The authors got me thinking about the ways scientific uncertainty enables people to lead themselves, and others, astray. That wasn’t what they…