For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019
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Science Communication Who You Gonna Search? Engine News for Systematic Reviewers
Isn’t it almost always the way? I had barely finished my recent post about alternatives to Google Scholar, it seems to…
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Science Communication Google Scholar Risks and Alternatives
I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our…
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Bias Can Anything Really Stop the Science Spin Snowball?
With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be…
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Science Communication “Destructo-Critics” and Mean Bloggers: The Study
A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed…
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Reproducibility Why Don’t We Do More Visualizations of Methods?
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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Peer review research roundup Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…
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Peer review research roundup Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989)
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand
This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable…
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Evidence “High Value, Low Wastage Research” Is More Than Just a Catchphrase Now
I don’t recall hearing it before. But I’ve heard the slogan “high value, low wastage research” a lot the last…
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Evidence Correcting the Record On That Critique of the Cochrane HPV Vaccine Review
It can be a long, unrewarding slog to unpack the problems in a published paper. David Allison and colleagues talked…
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Science Communication Free Speech and Journals’ Responsibility in Vaccine Debates
“Learn what they don’t want you to know.” That pretty much captures the conspiracy-laced journey into data you often see…