The Next Web: How to read a scientific research paper. “One of the most important skills any discerning media consumer can have is the ability to comprehend a scientific research paper. Reading a paper won’t imbue you with the ability to understand all the science behind it, but it could help you debunk BS when you see it on the news or social media.” Good for the basics, not a deep dive.
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Campus Technology: UC System, Carnegie Mellon Pilot Tool for Sharing Research Methods
Campus Technology: UC System, Carnegie Mellon Pilot Tool for Sharing Research Methods . “The University of California system and Carnegie Mellon University are both piloting the use of a platform … in an effort to bring down a major barrier to reproducible research: the creation and sharing of detailed methods in published articles. As part of the larger open access movement, the universities hope to facilitate collaborative method development and to increase research reproducibility.”
Bleeping Computer: U.S. Navy Creating a 350 Billion Record Social Media Archive
Bleeping Computer: U.S. Navy Creating a 350 Billion Record Social Media Archive. “United States Navy researchers want to build a global social media archive with 350 billion of digital data records as part of ongoing research efforts at the Naval Postgraduate School from Monterey, CA, conducted through the Department of Defense and Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.”
Phys .org: Ancient toy inspires tool for state-of-the-art science
Phys .org: Ancient toy inspires tool for state-of-the-art science. “A 5,000-year-old toy still enjoyed by kids today has inspired an inexpensive, hand-powered scientific tool that could not only impact how field biologists conduct their research but also allow high-school students and others with limited resources to realize their own state-of-the-art experiments.”
Washington State University: Amid genomic data explosion, scientists find proliferating errors
Washington State University: Amid genomic data explosion, scientists find proliferating errors. “Washington State University researchers found a troubling number of errors in publicly available genomic data as they conducted a large-scale analysis of protein sequences. The work, published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, the world’s most cited microbiology journal, could have important implications for future genomic research.”
Scroll.in: Scientists are studying your tweets, YouTube videos, Instagram posts. Is that ethical?
Scroll.in: Scientists are studying your tweets, YouTube videos, Instagram posts. Is that ethical?. “Who do you think reads your social media posts? You might assume that only your followers see your tweets and status updates – but someone else might be taking a close look. Scientists are increasingly using public social media data for research, and they are not just examining tweets – they also delve into your online dating profiles, your Yelp reviews, your Instagram posts, your YouTube videos, and even your comments on articles like this one.”
Quartz: Historians are starting to explore the dark side of science
Quartz: Historians are starting to explore the dark side of science. ” Increasingly, scientific historians are coming to terms with the fact that science thrived in part because of the transatlantic slave trade of the 1500s to 1800s, which enabled naturalists to discover and ship new flora and fauna specimens around the world. To this day, museums contain these specimens that excited and inspired early scientists but were obtained only thanks to an inhumane business.”
