About a week ago, I created an English Wikipedia page for a woman who had an extraordinary life, and left a phenomenal…
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Science Communication Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia UniverseRead more
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Covid-19 Next Generation Covid Vaccines Update (No 9): Major New Hat in the Ring Plus Important ResultsRead more
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 This Month’s Progress in Next Generation Covid Vaccines (Update 8)Read more
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 TipsRead more
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 DeclineRead more
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)Read more
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 TrackingRead more
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 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…