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* Studying how institutions shape science and technology * Teaching computational social science * Asst prof at University of 〽️ichigan School of Information www.misha.mx
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paying $250 for peer reviews didn't have much of an effect journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/f...

Scientists in industry are more likely to rely on the papers of other industrial scientists than similar papers by academics. Could be just an awareness issue, or maybe industrial papers are more credible?

People don't like *micro* posts that much, they prefer slightly longer pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

What may seem like round #1 of this fight is actually round #2 www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...

How do scientists choose which topic to study? Decades of studies on this, but they're dispersed across fields and not synthesized. Fortunately for us, Sidney @sdxiang.bsky.social has written a fantastic review of this literature, focusing on econ and soc lit! direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Twitter gets more engagement per science post, but in terms of number of science posts, Bluesky has almost caught up www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...

Good news. The file drawer problem, of insignificant results not getting written up and submitted, is shrinking. #openscience #reproducibility #NHST #metascience 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

The prominent LLMs are almost surely trained on pirated content www.nber.org/papers/w33598

"We measure VC narcissism based on the size of the signature... appointment of a highly narcissistic VC leads to an overall deterioration in research and teaching performance" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Even JP Morgan Chase (!!!) thinks paying to publish is a scam

I look forward to citing this paper without reading it!

How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite? In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581 ⬇️

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Guest post: Should Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment be retracted? asks Augustine Brannigan

Does "spinning" null results to make them sound significant work? Yes. ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....

Some scientists who use ChatGPT for coding have... odd beliefs about how it works arxiv.org/abs/2502.17348

Hello Bluesky! We are ICSSI: The 2025 International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation Save the date! 🗓️ JUNE 16-18, 2025 ✍️ in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark www.icssi.org

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- The shortest time between a basic science discovery and a drug based on it appearing in the market is 7 years. Mostly it's 11+ years. - Only 5 of the most important drugs were developed with "essentially no input from the public sector". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scandinavian scientists seem to have some of the best work-life balance, Chinese scientists some of the worst, as measured by who submits their papers and peer reviews to the BMJ late at night, on weekends, and holidays😅 www.bmj.com/content/367/...

I have a piece half-done on the entire world of indirect costs. It's too big an endeavor to finish now, in the middle of the night, when this problem *that was always a live grenade with a half-pulled pin* is suddenly a topic du jour. Shit of a thing. Here are some highlights.

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Join us at #ICSSI2025 in Copenhagen! Our website is now updated, the call for abstracts is online: www.icssi.org 📅 June 16-18, 2025 📍 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK Stay tuned for keynote speaker announcements! #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS

Some of the gender gap in funding is explained by how funders value "qualitative methods and, more broadly, interpretive, descriptive and exploratory approaches" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Crowd-workers on MTurk and Prolific are just like me fr Relative to a representative-ish sample of Americans, they - do less housework and care work - spend less time traveling - spend more time at home - spend more time alone journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Seems relevant journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

UofC students making fun (?) of UofC founder John D Rockefeller

Science is more engaging when it's funny journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Kind of wild that in only ~10 years the NIH shifted from funding mostly basic research to now mostly applied nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2023/10/...

LLMs don't really have "personalities." Whatever you get by giving it a personality test is very sensitive to minor variations in the prompt arxiv.org/abs/2311.09718

Department Chair: You are going up for tenure next year. We evaluate candidates based on h-index and citation counts. Faculty member: Say no more...

With Wikipedia under attack, it's important to remember that its articles source and cite *very high quality* science AND serve to amplify public access to that science! @wikipdia.bsky.social is probably the best public knowledge repository we have: asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The claim that disruptiveness in scientific papers declined over time (Park, Leahey and Funk 2023 in Nature) is apparently due to articles whose reference lists are not indexed researchportal.vub.be/en/publicati...