“Recommendations for effective myth debunking may thus need to be revised”. One of the authors of this conclusion is Stephan Lewandowsky. He’s also one…
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Science Communication Debunking Advice DebunkedRead more
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Science Communication A Little Springtime for Green Open Access? Icons for More Free Full Texts in PubMedRead more
There’s a new kid on the publication access block at PubMed. It’s a little one, so you might not notice it…
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Black History Month How-To Guide: Help Find Missing Scientists’ FacesRead more
Do you want to see more photos and stories of amazing women and other under-represented scientists? Sure you do! And you can…
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Black History Month Black History Month: The Complicated Power of More Women Scientists’ FacesRead more
The photos are gorgeous. They’re uplifting. The images bring women we have not heard of before to life, shifting our own…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2016: A Year of Price Bargaining, Preprints, and a PirateRead more
A few years ago, I wrote that open access (OA) publications were gaining momentum. Based on a study of 2006 to 2010…
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History “The Same Folly, the Same Fury”: A.V. Hill in 1933Read more
Freedom itself is again at stake… It is difficult to believe in progress, at least in decency and commonsense, when this can…
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Health Down and Almost Out in Scotland: George Orwell, 1948, and Nineteen Eighty-FourRead more
A tweet jolted me today. Doublespeak hit the news a few days ago, sending George Orwell’s final masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, back into a…
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Evidence When Science Polarizes: A Personal Activist Story with EvidenceRead more
There was another one of those “we’re living in echo chambers” papers recently. It’s from the same data on science and conspiracy theory social…
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Science Communication Silence: Everyday Betrayals of Research ParticipantsRead more
Many of them were watching the evening TV news on the BBC, with no idea of the blow that was…
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Reproducibility Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research ReliabilityRead more
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the…
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Listicles Post-Truth Antidote: Our Roles in Virtuous Spirals of Trust in ScienceRead more
It’s a classic vicious cycle. Post-internet, misinformation and ideas previously doomed to be only fringe-worthy spread far and fast. The faster misinformation…
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Evidence Fertility Hedge Fund? Pros and Cons of Egg BankingRead more
Freezing and storing your own eggs when you are not trying to get pregnant used to be rare. It was something…