Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”... everyone gets it wrong.

Some abstract succeed in telling a good story by distort... details of what was done and what was found . Some manus... way into prestigious journals because the editor and rev... by what they read in the abstract and don’t notice tha... with what i

Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi...
Dendrites h

stories in The Guardian and on BuzzFeed revealed that th... of 55,000 was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Tr... of them filled with sensationalist, utterly fake news

Today’s cautionary tale comes from Verizon’s sneak p... 2017 Data Breach Digest scenario. It involves an unnamed... seafood searches, and an IoT botnet; hackers used the un... vending machines and other IoT devices to attack the uni... network.

In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo...
So Einstein

We started from the question of how to take “back of t... calculations and make them explicitly shareable over the... shareable, but to turn them into structured objects that... updated, linked to evidence and so on (in much the same ... entries are

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to...
An examination of the facial expressions of the last six ...
Shown here

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

Based on a True True Story?
Scene-by-scene breakdown of Hollywood films

WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month.

For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel

From literature searches to collaborative online writing... amount of the research process now takes place online.®.. Tattersall provides a list of useful Google Chrome exte... added to the browser to help facilitate the daily academ... Recommendat

The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up

Her findings:
Men and women who are solo authors of most of their pape ...
When men co-author papers, each such paper is associated ...

Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete.

Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a ... called Chuck Finley -- entering fake driver's license an... into the library system -- and then used the account to ... books over nine months in 2016, in order to trick the sy... that the bo

Have you ever stood on a beach in Wales and wondered wha... side of the ocean?
Finding the answer is not as simple as drawing a straigh ...
Map experts at Esri UK have created an interactive map w ...
Pembroke in Pembrokeshire, for example, faces Antarct

Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr...
Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusi ...
It comes fr

"I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modes... members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is al... internet pioneer.
Her DIY solution to a neighbour's internet connectivity ...
That is 35 times faster than the 28.9 Mbps average UK

Imagine being able to navigate the streets just by recei... your footwear. Or feeling a tingle in your yoga tights i... position needs improvement.
And what if you could feel the things you're touching as ...
This is the science of haptics, the intersec

Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication that s... conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global ove...
Our World in Data communicates this empirical knowledge ...
through data visualizations – charts and maps.
by presenting the acade

CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections o... by national and local governments, research institutions... organisations which collect a lot of data. With its powe... faceting, users can browse and find the data they need, ... using maps,

CWTS Journal Indicators provides free access to bibliome... scientific journals. The indicators have been calculated... University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies... the Scopus bibliographic database produced by Elsevier. ... available f

Scholarly impact has long been an intriguing research to... 2010; Sternberg, 2003) as well as a crucial factor in ma... decisions (e.g., hiring, tenure, promotion, research sup... honors).  As decision makers ramp up their reliance on ... (Abbott, Cy

Prusa i3 (i3 stands for third iteration of the design) i... by me. There are countless variations of the design and ... of 3D printing with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands ... You can build simple one for couple hundred dollars or y...
It’s open

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

A recently published research paper (paywall) by David E... Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that g... poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco... and Popova’s research is based on an examination of ni... assess the

After finding evidence that much of the “fake” and h... traffic during 🇺🇸#Election2016 was arriving throug... hyperlinks, search engines, and “old school” sharing... email newsletters, RSS, and instant messaging, I thought... “big data