The authors got me thinking about the ways scientific uncertainty enables people to lead themselves, and others, astray. That wasn’t what they…
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Evidence Scientific Uncertainty Isn’t a Justification for Getting Things Seriously WrongRead more
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2023Read more
This is my fifth annual research roundup about journal peer review. And we’re only averaging about one randomized trial a year. This…
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Science Communication How Is Science Twitter’s “Mastodon Migration” Panning Out?Read more
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…
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Science Communication Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia UniverseRead more
About a week ago, I created an English Wikipedia page for a woman who had an extraordinary life, and left a phenomenal…
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Science Communication Substack Versus WordPress Newsletter: First Impressions and Migration TipsRead more
It’s been a relief to migrate my newsletter away from Substack. I’d started on Substack because it was so easy. It was…
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Science Communication 17 Studies Plus Advertising Data Map Out Twitter’s DeclineRead more
I rarely look at Twitter these days, but it’s obvious people are having extremely different experiences there. I see some people talking…
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Science Communication Mastodon’s Growth, and Communities BranchingRead more
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 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
Note (February 2025): This post is very out of date. These days, I use OpenAlex as an alternative. (Background on OpenAlex in…
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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…