🦞, 🧠, behaviour, evolution, metascience. Author of @Better_Posters 📕 from @PelagicPublish!
Joined September 2008
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3 Oct 2024
Nice to hear a professor from my old university, @utrgv, on national media: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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16 Sep 2024
Headlines are the most read part of an news article. I studied news stories about a scientific journal article
ZERO headlines correctly stated what the new finding in the journal article was.
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.07.6…
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#incentives
In the early 1900s, Germany would sometimes pay scientists *by the page* of text produced. The consequences were exactly what you would expect
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Preprint just dropped!🎙️We discover molecular mechanisms of the excruciatingly painful sting of the Scarlet Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis). Title: "Multiple mechanisms of action of an extremely painful venom." 🧵 1/N biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Things I loved in Space: 1999
The Eagles. My favourite spaceship.
The theme music (both seasons!).
Ep. 8, “Dragon’s Domain.”
Catherine Schell.
“This episode” teaser (stolen years later by the Battlestar Galactica reboot).
Fun stuff in an often clunky show.
#BreakawayDay
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10 Sep 2024
Well, this is just peachy. Companies are posting jobs they have no intention of filling just to pressure their existing employees.
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4 Sep 2024
Making a lasting mark: Some journals have article that just keep getting cited for years or decades.
But that average longevity of article citations in a journal doesn't bear much relationship to journal's Impact Factor.
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(Data redrawn from Table 1.)
ALT Scatter plot of 15 journals. X-axis: Journal Impact Factor. Y-Axis: Longevity of research articles. Some journal with Impact Factor less than 20 have longevity scores of 50 or more; no journals with Impact Factor more than 40 does.
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1 Sep 2024
Occasional reminder: I am unfollowing folks here if I can follow them on other socials. 🦋🦣🧵
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21 Aug 2024
New #crayfish just dropped
21 Aug 2024
New published paper! Two new species of crayfish from southern Brazil! Now, there are 25 species of Parastacus. I described 16 :)
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21 Aug 2024
As I continue unfollowing people who have a profile on other social media sites (see you on 🦋🧵🦣), I’m noticing that people have migrated but organizations have not.
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21 Aug 2024
Goodhart’s Law in full effect.
Bibliometrics will keep losing value until we change the incentives.
20 Aug 2024
'50 citations for $300': Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate citation counts — my latest for @Nature: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
@talalrahwan, @YasirZaki82, @manuelansede, @gcabanac, @nickwizzo
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20 Aug 2024
I’ve never seen this as a formal policy before. This is crazy to me.
This may be the ultimate outsourcing of assessment responsibilities.
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20 Aug 2024
The literal bottom line:
“The way to address citation gaming is to change the incentives.. so that scientists are not under pressure to accumulated as many citations as possible(.) “The pressure for publication and citation is detrimental to the behaviour of scientists.”
Citations for cash: researchers have identified services where scholars can buy fake references in bulk go.nature.com/4csIaxW
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19 Aug 2024
If you haven’t tried other social media platforms (🦋, 🧵,🦣) for a while because there were too few people and not enough relevant scientific or academic discussion, try again. ↪️
They are reaching critical mass.
#ScienceTwitter #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
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16 Aug 2024
If I follow you here and I follow you on another platform, I may be unfollowing you here.
Other social media platforms are reaching critical mass to be viable alternatives to #AcademicTwitter and #ScienceTwitter. While there is no end in sight to the decay here.
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16 Aug 2024
What you think the function of a scientific society in the 21st century should be?
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Maybe an example of the usefulness of narrative in research assessment.
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