A few million people use PubMed every day – many pretty much every day. And everyone’s got their own habits, shortcuts, and…

Physicists set a new record this year for number of co-authors: a 9-page report needed an extra 24 pages to list its 5,154…

1894: “[T]he acknowledged leaders of the great generation that is now passing away, Darwin notably, addressed themselves in many cases to…

I blame the writing and research impact advice we get. At least in part. It doesn’t prepare us as well as it could…

Many trials end with a whimper. But some end with a bang. Press release, press conference, lots of fanfare &ndash…

On 11 September, some 9,300 participants in the SPRINT trial were sent a letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The letter told…

The potential harms of interventions are tricky to get a handle on. Our feelings about them are, too. It wouldn’t be…

Update 2021: I wrote this post back in the Gamergate-affected Twitter era. While the issues here about degrees of separation are still…

“I hope that other women can benefit from my experience”, wrote Angelina Jolie of her double mastectomy. She showed great courage and generosity, sharing data…

There’s a lot of outrage about outrage storming around women in science and science journalism at the moment. And fear of causing…

Last year I wrote a post of “5 Key Things to Know About Meta-Analysis”. It was a great way to focus – but…

I’m a scientist who’s also a cartoonist. So I’ve got a pretty keen interest in scholarship and empirical research on humor. And I…