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So, Your Social Media Presence Is Being Overrun With Covid Denialism

Jetta Robertson — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:53:00 +0000

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: over the last 15 months, your social media presence has become overrun with “COVID denialists,” anti-vaxxers, and other outspoken skeptics of accepted science. They co-opt your comment threads to spread conspiracy theories and harass people who support vaccines, wear masks, and believe SARS-CoV-2 exists. Maybe you don’t even… Read More »So, Your Social Media Presence Is Being Overrun With Covid Denialism

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Do you accept the quest? – Reading and understanding a science paper

Amanda — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:00:41 +0000

Science papers—the everyday tales of slaying research dragons and finding buried treasures. Not just for stereotyped nerds in white coats, or wild-haired Einstein lookalikes. You can read them too. With the rise in open access publishing, more are available to lay readers outside academia’s ivory towers. But what are they all about? And why would… Read More »Do you accept the quest? – Reading and understanding a science paper

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Caveat lector or reader beware!

Amanda — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:33:14 +0000

Repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation In April, the Journal of Neuroscience published the paper that apparently everybody had been waiting for—definitive proof that even recreational cannabis use messes with your head. As soon as the publication embargo lifted, the headlines screamed into action, suggesting the danger to developing brains from just a… Read More »Caveat lector or reader beware!

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Evaluating a news source

Jakob — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:50:14 +0000

Most people seem to want news they can trust, and most people I know think that’s quite hard to find. There are many, many reasons for this, but I’m going to try (notwithstanding the 8,000-word first draft of this piece) to only talk about the ones that are most helpful if you’re trying to decide… Read More »Evaluating a news source

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The Finkbeiner test

Jakob — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:36:44 +0000

Christie Aschwanden has an excellent piece up at XX Science, with a simple experiment you can do at home to identify sexism in science journalism! As a long-time fan of the Bechdel Test, I’m easily convinced that science journalism warrants a similar instrument. Finkbeiner’s test is interesting because, unlike the Bechdel Test (which primarily reveals… Read More »The Finkbeiner test

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Science, the gender gap, and how to make it worse

Jakob — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:00:51 +0000

Of late, some people have really hit it out of the park when it comes to articulating the obstacles women face in science. In what seems to be an effort to restore symmetry to the universe, the Guardian’s Emma G. Keller recently did her best to hit it right back in. The piece is a… Read More »Science, the gender gap, and how to make it worse

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