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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Covid-19 A Process Update on Covid Vaccine TrackingRead more
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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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Covid-19 Pancoronavirus Vaccines Update: Lots of Preclinical Results & Another Trial UnderwayRead more
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 BoostRead more
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 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Note (February 2025): This post is very out of date.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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Peer review research roundup 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2022Read more
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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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…
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Science Communication Reflecting on Twitter, White Flight, & “Quote Tweet” Tensions at MastodonRead more
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?Read more
Like many people, I opened a Mastodon account on the weekend the Musk era began on Twitter. This post picks up from…