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 Some Shortcuts to Giving Mastodon a Try
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Science Communication Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean
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 Mastodon
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?
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 Block
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 Cycle
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 Statistics
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 Rails
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Bias A Communication Research Unicorn! Decent Evidence You Can Change People’s Minds & Actions Via Social Media
The field of research on communication interventions is heavily littered with studies that are too small, too indirect, and too riddled with…
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Science Communication A Cartoon Guide to Criticism: Scientist Edition
Science is a profession where critique is integral to the work itself. So you might think we’d all have both criticizing, and…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2020
It’s a fundamental part of science – and yet peer review is not itself very science-based. It needs to be. The premise…