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2015-03-05 18:19:44     Scientists threatened by demands to share data | Al Jazeera America

http://america.aljazeera.com/...nedbydemandstosharedata.html

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

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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

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...
Reproducibility refers to the ability to repeat some wor ...
Reproducibi

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2011-10-10 11:36:10     CoRR - Computing Research Repository

http://arxiv.org/corr/home

Welcome to the Computing Research Repository (CoRR), spo... arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Sc... Reference Library), and AAAI. CoRR allows researchers to... download papers through its online repository. CoRR is a... members of

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2011-08-23 11:03:49     Writing the Dissertation: One Reason Why it is Difficult « Beki's Blog

http://beki70.wordpress.com/...e-reason-why-it-is-difficult/

I have a theory about why writing the dissertation is su...
The dissertation is a reflective document. It requires i ...
And what self-critical researcher (which of course is wh ...
This is not the writer’s fault. This is the fault of r ...
... I’d l

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2012-07-26 18:08:16     How to Finish a PhD | profserious

http://blog.prof.so/2012/07/how-to-finish-phd.html

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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2013-01-07 17:07:43     crackpots who were right « viXra log

http://blog.vixra.org/category/crackpots-who-were-right/

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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/

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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2016-10-02 08:40:00     Incentivizing Reproducibility | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/10/207757.../fulltext?...

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

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2008-02-27 21:19:43     Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science [CiteSeer; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles]

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html

Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Scien... better) - May 2003 (CiteSeer)
Generated from documents in the CiteSeer database. This ...
Impact is estimated using the average citation rate, whe ...

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2014-02-19 07:51:20     Analysis of the CHI research community’s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

http://comag.oulu.fi/...i-research-communitys-knowledge-map/

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

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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/

Twitter is a big part of education and technology. But w...
Official MLA Twitter Citation Format
The Modern Language Association (MLA, yes that MLA forma ...
MLA gives an example using the famous tweet that acknowl ...
Athar, Sohaib (ReallyVirtual).

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2007-04-05 14:30:45     Pragmatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid...

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2016-03-24 19:09:15    

http://fivethirtyeight.com/...s-can-easily-explain-p-values/

But after writing about p-values again and again, and recently issuing a correction on a nearly year-old story over some erroneous information regarding a study’s p-value (which I’d taken from the scientists themselves and their report)...

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2011-09-05 14:52:06     The Paradox of Openness: Attribution (network ‘whispers’) | Heloukee: EdTech and Digital Culture

http://heloukee.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/attribution/

I’m now going to briefly explore ‘network whispers‮.. content are shared easily through open platforms, and ye... be masked in the flow of dissemination: does credit alwa... due?

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2012-11-09 17:33:39     Informatics Europe - Reports

http://informatics-europe.org/services/reports.html

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2015-03-23 21:19:33     The big hole in HCI research | ACM Interactions

http://interactions.acm.org/...hole-in-hci-research-insights

The first point I wish to make is that a lack of motor t... very worrying prospect for a scientific community. There... researchers should ask themselves whether CHI is or want... scientific conference. If not, then the reasonable quest...
My argument

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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

“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...
I am Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. Well, actually my name is ...
Other than

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2015-10-13 18:35:29     PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?...

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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2016-09-07 09:15:20     Frontiers for Young Minds

http://kids.frontiersin.org/

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers.

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2014-09-28 13:00:49     Why Academics' Writing Stinks - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://m.chronicle.com/article/Why-Academics-.../148989/?...

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2011-01-14 11:35:11     Papers : mekentosj.com : Software for Research

http://mekentosj.com/papers/

Papers · your personal library of research
Repository of knowledge
Search article repositories and download articles withou ...
All your papers at a glance
... Full screen reading, article notes

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2014-12-16 11:01:06     The NIPS Experiment | Moody Rd

http://mrtz.org/blog/the-nips-experiment/

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2014-02-17 22:50:16     Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese | New York Post

http://nypost.com/...story-behind-the-kitty-genovese-murder/

Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ...
The murder of Kitty Genovese shifted from crime to legen ...
The Times piece was followed by a story in Life magazine ...
New York be

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2017-06-15 21:20:09     “Political Co-Authorships” in Medical Science Journals - Johal - 2017 - Clinical Anatomy - Wiley Online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca.22932/abstract

The issue of co-author relationships on medical sciences... publications has become more pronounced as advances in t... enabled collaboration across countries and institutions ... efficiently. These relationships often have underlying p... motivations

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2007-10-14 11:32:58     Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

OWL at Purdue Logo The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer over 200 free resour ...
* Writing and Teaching Writing
* Research
... * Job Search and Professional Writing

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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

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...
So Einstein

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2016-01-02 12:00:33     Student puts science fair project behind a paywall, wins first prize

http://pnis.co/scinews/vol2_24.html

Wendell’s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription...
Tommy says

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2014-02-18 16:47:22     Scientific Utopia

http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/615.full

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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2010-12-11 00:38:15    

http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/...d-precognition.html

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

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2017-06-15 21:29:15     Counting Research ⇒ Directing Research: The Hazard of Using Simple Metrics to Evaluate Scientific Contributions (An EU Experience)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0020.102?...

In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t

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