This update is packed with news, with 3 developments standing out in particular. The first is the “major hat” in this post’s…
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Covid-19 Next Generation Covid Vaccines Update (No 9): Major New Hat in the Ring Plus Important Results
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Covid-19 This Month’s Progress in Next Generation Covid Vaccines (Update 8)
Next generation vaccines are already varying from each other a lot, just as the first generation did. However, there are several ways…
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Science Communication Substack Versus WordPress Newsletter: First Impressions and Migration Tips
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 Decline
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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Covid-19 Progress on Next Generation Covid Vaccines (Update 7)
I’ve been reporting on progress of different types of next generation Covid vaccines separately from time to time. With this post, I’m…
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Covid-19 A Process Update on Covid Vaccine Tracking
Tracking Covid vaccine development from early in the pandemic was a wild ride. Since 2020, I’ve written 36 posts here on Covid…
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Science Communication Mastodon’s Growth, and Communities Branching
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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Covid-19 Pancoronavirus Vaccines Update: Lots of Preclinical Results & Another Trial Underway
In my last post, I looked at the landscape for intranasal and other mucosal Covid vaccines, with the big news of White…
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Covid-19 Progress on Intranasal & Oral Covid Vaccines – Plus a US Government Funding Boost
The race for a vaccine that might be able to provide at least some “sterilizing” immunity just got a boost in the…
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Science Communication Philosophy, Scientific Literacy… and Flattery
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?
In 2019, I wrote a pair of posts about the risks of our reliance on Google Scholar (GS), and search engine alternatives…
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Peer review research roundup 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2022
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…