Dibujo de Arturo Souto Litografía, ca. 1950 DR © Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original, todos los derechos de autor y reproducción están reservados por el coleccionista.

Abstract Research on questionable research practices (QRPs) includes a growing body of work that questions whether they are as problematic as commonly assumed. This article provides a brief and selective review that considers some of this work. In particular, the review highlights work that questions the prevalence and impact of QRPs, including p -hacking, HARKing, and publication bias.

Last month I gave a talk on the HEIR compiler project at the FHE.org conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The video is on YouTube now, and the slides are public. I plan to write more about HEIR in the coming months, because it’s been an exciting and fulfilling ride!

Now seems like a good time to talk about fascism. In this post, I use linguistic data to probe the deep origins of fascist thought. And I gaze at the rising tide of fascist sentiment in anglophone writing.

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Although fraud and misconduct have always existed in research and scholarly communication, the rise of paper mills over the past decade has led to an unprecedented volume of fake or manipulated research being published. A 2022 report jointly published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the STM Association suggests that between 2 and 46% of submissions to journals in the time between 2019 and 2021 were produced by paper mills.

Last week, we hit “publish” on a major milestone for the U.S. biotechnology industry: the final report of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB). Two years of work. Over 1,800 experts. 180+ pages. And now the real work begins.

It is a basic good of modern societies to have access to knowledge, information and culture. A new practical guide by Till Kreutzer provides support in choosing the right Creative Commons licence and sharing content in a legally secure manner. It was created in a cooperation with Wikimedia Germany and the German UNESCO Commission.

As promised, the folks at NEIU have posted the video of my discussion with Scott Dodelson last week, so here you go: I am in the midst of writing a related post on cosmic tensions, so hopefully I can post that soon as well.

Today, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched an important new feature: showing the full-text content (in addition to metadata) of all participating blogs on blog post pages. Rogue Scholar has always stored the full-text internally and made it available via the REST API, as the full-text is needed for archiving and full-text search.

I recently compared three academic AI search tools: Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI for a review article. Why these three? Mainly because they are add-ons to extremely well-established academic search engines or databases: Primo : Owned by Exlibris (a Clarivate company), Primo is one of the four major discovery systems used by universities, often serving as the default library search box.

DOI 10.60804/ZGJX-0K93 Over the last couple of months we have talked with meta-researchers about their work on data, and their perspectives on steps needed to better understand how datasets are used and inform responsible metrics for data.