This is my fifth annual research roundup about journal peer review. And we’re only averaging about one randomized trial a year. This…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2023
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Science Communication How Is Science Twitter’s “Mastodon Migration” Panning Out?
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…
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Science Communication Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
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 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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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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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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Science Communication Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths
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 Try
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 Mean
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 Mastodon
Why can’t we “quote boost” at Mastodon, the way we can “quote tweet” at Twitter? That might sound like an innocuous question…