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RT @brianklaas
I wrote this to systematically debunk the really stupid pro-gun arguments that usually arise in Twitter comments. And still, the people commenting on it...turn to the exactly same really stupid pro-gun arguments without reading it. open.substack.com/pub/briankla

When scholars without expertise in infrastructure reform encounter the goals of the reform movement, such as e.g., replacing academic journals,

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

they sometimes reflexively defend the status quo that served them well, e.g.:

“You ‘open’ wackaloons are forcing your revolution on us, against our academic freedom!”

I was asked to write a *one-page* cheat sheet with the evidence to counter such a reflex:

docs.google.com/document/d/1vj

Can you/we improve on that?
#openscience

Just saved myself a lot of space in this application I'm writing with the DOI shortener tool from the DOI Foundation 👍

Just (re)discovered Casey Greene's super "preprint similarity search tool". It did a great job for our recent #preprint. It uses a language learning model to find like #publications to help you pick your target #journals.

greenelab.github.io/preprint-s

@greenescientist
Any chance you can add OSF.io preprints?
E.g. DOI 10.31219/osf.io/bv86n

Vaughn Cooper  
Just (re)discovered Casey Greene's super "preprint similarity search tool". It did a great job for our recent #preprint. It uses a language learnin...

Why not "whenever they're not disorders of the thymus or gut or uterus or whatever other organ"?

Awais Aftab  
When are we justified in calling mental disorders “brain disorders”? I discuss Anneli Jefferson's excellent philosophical work on answering this qu...

RT @DrTomFrieden
People who received an Omicron booster were more than 18 times less likely to die from Covid and 3 times less likely to be infected compared to unvaccinated people, according to the latest CDC data.

How to slow down scientific progress

"Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—also wrote fiction. His book of short stories, The Voice of the Dolphins, contains a story “The Mark Gable Foundation,” dated 1948."

You can see the full thing at this link, but I've also taken a screenshot of an excerpt. 😬 🤔 😢

rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on

The scholarly "community should demand longer-term solutions that break up the monopoly of academic publishers"

From an ex-Nature editor:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/307095

even before we wrote that we need to replace academic journals:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

#openscience #OpenAccess

Very next day after the domestic terrorist attack in Brasilia:
- 400 arrests
- clear statement with the law and decree that are being put in place
- total condemnation of the terrorists by the conservatives
- "we're going after everyone involved: organizers, sponsors and politicians!"
- the governor of Brasilia was fire

Who's the banana republic now?
#arrestTheTerrorists #January6th

RT @nutlope
Building an AI web app that helps restore old blurry photos!

Dropping tomorrow and as usual, it'll be free and open source.

By @NeuroMinded !
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RT @brembs
"we have conceded the curation and dissemination of scientific knowledge to those for whom science will be their second priority and who value important results over rigorous process."
Says former Nature editor:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/307095
#openscience
twitter.com/brembs/status/1612

The bivalent booster in people age 65+ compared with those who did not receive it, among >622,000 participants
81% reduction of hospitalizations (Figure)
86% reduction of deaths
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

A very nice position paper by the ever-reliable Brembs et al

*Replacing academic journals*
zenodo.org/record/5793611#.Y71

"a modern scholarly digital infrastructure... needs to replace traditional journals with a decentralized, resilient, evolvable network that is interconnected by open standards under the governance of the scholarly community"

If we shift from publishing in journals to posting preprints...how do we get feedback on our work?

One group's solution is to create "Preprint Clubs", where communities of academics host regular journal clubs where they review and then post their reviews online: preprintclub.com

Preprints rated most favourably by the group are then featured in a participating journal.

via doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.04.522
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity @academicchatter

'cuz "novel" means "lower prior probability."

Erinn Acland, PhD  
A Cell (IF = 67) paper claimed that vasopressin worsened COVID. The editor was notified of inaccuracies in the paper, but they refused to take any ...

An anecdote supporting data showing that higher-JIF journals are more likely to publish later retracted work.

Erinn Acland, PhD  
A Cell (IF = 67) paper claimed that vasopressin worsened COVID. The editor was notified of inaccuracies in the paper, but they refused to take any ...
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