Tiziana Metitieri @timetit@qoto.org

As you settle down to see the New Year in, I've prepared a Dodgy Journals Quiz to remind you of some of the more amusing forms of weirdness we've encountered:
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2022/12/new-years-eve-quiz-2022.html

La storia più bella del mondo 🙈
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02KFYBw9JnRMzgw6szRNw44pPWyH1smLoA27wKb25HxcxCytv9aKPywtYe67HAmPfGl&id=1565509729

GRETA, NOW DO ELON.

Everyone knows about Cola and how it used to contain cocaine, but have you heard about 7Up, or how it was initially called: Bib-label Lithiated Lemon-lime Soda?

Guess what it contained originally? Yep. Lithium (citrate).

#Science #History #Pharma

The new Spain's "Trans Law" 🏳️‍⚧️ is historical. It doesn’t only improve rights for trans people but also for lesbian cis-women and intersex people.

I haven't read much info about it in English and I believe it’s such a good Christmas 🎁 for the LGBT community so I'll explain it 👇

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

George Lakoff describing the hypocrisy of Elon Musk’s conception of “free speech” and how Musk is using his platform to manipulate discourse at scale… what Lakoff calls “algorithmic warfare”. https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

Sostieni l'edizione 2023 di Valigia Blu. Anche una piccola donazione fa la differenza 💪💙👇
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Quando la disinformazione arriva dal Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito: il caso dei dispositivi elettronici a scuola | @timetit https://www.valigiablu.it/cellulari-scuola-circolare/

Quando la disinformazione arriva dal Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito: il caso dei dispositivi elettronici a scuola | @timetit https://www.valigiablu.it/cellulari-scuola-circolare/ via @valigiablu

"In 2021, I released a tool which measures gender diversity in Wikipedia articles (@pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article). OpenSexism uses this tool to measure gender diversity in a selection of articles from Wikipedia in English each wednesday. This is the Wednesday index... a longitudinal dataset to study gender diversity over time in this panel of Wikipedia articles." #wikidata, #wikipedia, #genderbias

See also: https://medium.com/@OpenSexism/the-wednesday-index-one-year-of-gender-diversity-data-visualized-a6458b94d52b

https://vis.social/@pac2/109561211674844899

That weird paper using T instead of error bar is now retracted.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/9758123/
But it's drawn attention to the rest of the special issue....
It's a happy hunting ground for those interested in papermill outputs

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