When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he…
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Reproducibility Why Don’t We Do More Visualizations of Methods?Read more
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Evidence Science: A Method for Increasing the Number of QuestionsRead more
A long time ago, I first encountered science seriously as a health consumer advocate. And I thought of medical…
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Science Communication Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)Read more
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…
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Science Communication Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989)Read more
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…
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Bias Should We Trust Meta-Analyses with Meta-Conflicts of Interest?Read more
There are a couple of angles to look at researcher conflict of interest from. One is that a conflict could distort…
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Bias A Classic Case of Science “He Said”, “She Said”: How Psychologists Trying to Prevent PTSD Got ControversialRead more
Natural disasters have a lot in common with other major traumas, like life-threatening accidents and mass shootings – especially…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 4 — From Anthropologists to Academic SurgeonsRead more
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the origin stories of African-American STEM societies, and the amazing people who started…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 3 — From Sociologists to EngineersRead more
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the founding stories of African-American STEM societies. In previous posts we’ve covered groups from…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 2 — From Psychologists to MathematiciansRead more
After the slow first wave of African-American STEM societies from 1895 to 1947 (part 1), a new wave swept in…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 1 — The First Wave (1895 to 1947)Read more
When we celebrate STEM history, we tend to focus on individuals singled out for specific inspiring scientific achievements. And that’s…
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Evidence Consumer-Contested Evidence: Why the ME/CFS Exercise Dispute Matters So MuchRead more
Sometimes, a dispute with a consumer movement comes along that has profound implications for far more than the people in…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the SandRead more
This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable…