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2016-04-22 20:55:34 How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com | ||
http://www.ft.com/...e8-01c7-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html#... | ||
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2012-04-01 16:54:46 How To Cite A Tweet In Academic Papers | Edudemic | ||
http://edudemic.com/...w-to-cite-a-tweet-in-academic-papers/ | ||
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Twitter is a big part of education and technology. But w... | ||
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2012-07-26 18:08:16 How to Finish a PhD | profserious | ||
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There are many surprises in doing a PhD. That, for examp... easier to have a idea than to show that is any good. Tha... your supervisor does not possess 'the answer'. Perhaps h... greatest surprise is that it is so much easier to start ... finish it. | ||
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2015-05-28 16:46:14 I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How. | ||
http://io9.com/...thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 | ||
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“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of... had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 ... they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front pa... | ||
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2016-12-06 14:28:55 Impact of Social Sciences – Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? Reviewing the literature on academic citations. | ||
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/...emic-papers-citation-rates-remler/ | ||
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It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and | ||
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2017-02-06 08:46:22 In referees we trust?: Physics Today: Vol 70, No 2 | ||
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3463 | ||
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In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo... | ||
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2016-10-02 08:40:00 Incentivizing Reproducibility | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM | ||
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/10/207757.../fulltext?... | ||
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A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci... | ||
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2012-11-09 17:33:39 Informatics Europe - Reports | ||
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2015-11-08 13:22:57 Journal impact factors ‘no longer credible’ | Times Higher Education | ||
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/...s-no-longer-credible | ||
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2018-01-04 08:40:32 Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis | ||
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Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc | ||
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2015-05-05 12:24:13 Keep it long: Most science writing advice flops, analysis finds -- ScienceDaily | ||
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases.../150430191026.htm#... | ||
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When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most sc... similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a ne... 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfi... abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargo... | ||
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2007-02-22 10:18:22 Literature Reviews | ||
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/han.../literature_review.html | ||
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Literature Reviews | ||
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2011-06-02 17:03:45 Mpemba’s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars | ||
http://skullsinthestars.com/...ater-freeze-before-cold-1969/ | ||
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“My name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.” | ||
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2012-02-27 07:20:15 Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source | ||
http://arstechnica.com/...-source-according-to-editorial.ars | ||
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Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavil... programs, which analyze experimental data and run simula... would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outsid... | ||
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2015-05-05 12:38:02 New gold standard established for open and reproducible research | University of Cambridge | ||
http://www.cam.ac.uk/...d-for-open-and-reproducible-research | ||
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A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new ... openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the ... data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest result... unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publ... researchers | ||
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2012-07-19 14:53:10 Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s Innovation system - Nesta | ||
http://www.nesta.org.uk/...ons_from_indias_innovation_system | ||
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Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a... | ||
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2011-01-14 11:35:11 Papers : mekentosj.com : Software for Research | ||
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Papers · your personal library of research | ||
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2017-03-23 07:59:41 Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals | ||
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But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe | ||
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2015-10-13 18:35:29 PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False | ||
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There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to | ||
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2007-04-05 14:30:45 Pragmatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | ||
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As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid... | ||
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2011-09-19 15:53:28 README.markdown at master from theshadowhost/Cite-the-PC - GitHub | ||
https://github.com/theshadowhost/Cite-the.../README.markdown | ||
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A command line and web app to find the papers you need t... paper published. Ever tried to get a paper published onl... reference papers you know were written by the programme ... suck up to get a paper accepted in your field? | ||
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2015-08-17 07:07:08 Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish : Nature News & Comment | ||
http://www.nature.com/...ke-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181 | ||
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The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ... | ||
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2014-07-11 08:15:58 SAGE Publications busts “peer review and citation ring,” 60 papers retracted | Retraction Watch | ||
http://retractionwatch.com/...tion-ring-60-papers-retracted/ | ||
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SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journ... Control after an investigation revealed a “peer review... ring” involving a professor in Taiwan. | ||
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2014-07-11 08:15:41 Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ - The Washington Post | ||
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...s-smashes-peer-review-ring/ | ||
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Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal. | ||
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2015-02-24 19:50:25 Scholarpedia - Scholarpedia | ||
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2011-09-19 15:23:54 Science Exchange // The Online Marketplace For Outsourcing Science Experiments | ||
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Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac | ||
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2014-02-18 16:48:02 Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment | ||
http://www.nature.com/...c-method-statistical-errors-1.14700 | ||
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Data from a study of nearly 2,000 people seemed to show ... moderates saw shades of grey more accurately than did ei... right-wing extremists. “The hypothesis was sexy,” he... | ||
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2015-02-27 22:38:37 Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment | ||
http://www.nature.com/...thod-statistical-errors-1.14700?... | ||
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But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared | ||
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2014-02-18 16:47:22 Scientific Utopia | ||
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An academic scientist’s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen | ||
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2015-04-02 13:22:29 Scientists should stop writing in the passive voice | ||
http://www.slate.com/...riting_in_the_passive_voice.html?... | ||
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As a group, scientists are not widely admired for their ... small extent, this derives from their insistence on the ... boogeyman of basic composition classes. Nevertheless, th... defenders: Two experts in scientific style recently took... debate the | ||
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