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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Science Communication 17 Studies Plus Advertising Data Map Out Twitter’s DeclineRead more
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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Note (February 2025): This post is very out of date.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…
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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…