This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common
Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.
Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?
h/t @Hoch
I'm starting to collect examples of something like hyperlinking in books - creative, print-based designs for linking one section to another. please send your favs, esp. the most detailed and/or wildest examples! #othernetworks
The House of Commons has released a thoughtful, critical report on UK research quality
The recommendations to government are excellent, both practical and progressive
Highlights:
Make all research open access
Require data and code accompany all publications
Move peer-review and publication acceptance before data collection
Specifically fund replications
Remove “originality” from REF, instead require transparency
Impose a 3-year minimum term for all postdocs
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmsctech/101/summary.html
Glass Cliff: When a woman is hired to fix an organization in decline. But she will be blamed and let go when she fails to do the miraculous.
As we enter the season of parental-focused holidays here in the US (and any other countries that sync up with the US), here’s a gentle reminder that many people have fraught relationships with parents, dead parents, or the combo whammy of both. Be kind.
content moderation is hard and thankless
check out this new game on content moderation by @mmasnick
@phette23 i have a lengthy question / research project related to this and library as workspace that i need an additional 40 hours a week to think about. so interesting!!!
today’s #caturday is a celebration of paws. from olly’s monster mittens to lucas’s long-limbed luxuriousness, these boys were very good nurses and friends as COVID knocked the humans in the household for a loop.
Someone really should call the ActivityPub/AT protocol bridge “Toot Skeet”.
@kfury @evan when you’re mostly buried in a pillow and slightly lift yourself up so the camera can see you a tiny bit better, then let yourself fall back down with a -flomf-
happy #caturday from lucas, who helped me get ready the other day, powdering his lil #BubblegumNose
What kind of psychopath would want this from a web page?
The #videogames group I write for sometimes started an optional subscription model in the hopes of being able to pay contributors equitably. Check it out in general if you’re into fun and thoughtful takes on gaming. And consider supporting if you want to encourage more public writing like this.
Wise words from the introduction & conclusion to my dad's #training material when he was learning to be a #software #developer in the late 1970s.
Starting on a new list to post on #FollowFriday. This one will focus on #Gardening / #Restoration / #Permaculture. Suggestions welcome! 💚 🍃
