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Academic research Show more

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They published our paper today!

BMJ: Trials that say “maybe”: the disconnect between exploratory and confirmatory testing after drug approval

bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k959

Academic travel Show more

Copyright Show more

How to know if a native English speaker created a software? Show more

When I come across new social media software and no one has bothered to think about abuse, it's like a plumber coming in to check out the house you're building and finding no one has installed any pipes, but you've already put up the walls. You are gonna have a house filled with poo, and the only people who will come in your house are people who enjoy shit.

Pushing scholarly toward a 100% model. aeon.co/ideas/scholarly-publis

This Aeon article includes discussion on improving the way peer review, etc. works. The author (Tennant) says" "All of the technology and traits to build a hybridised scholarly commons infrastructure already exists. It is up to academic communities themselves to step away from their apathy and towards a fairer and more democratic system for sharing our knowledge and work."

Scholars, do (or even can) you use sources you can only access through, say, ?

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

"To attract new prison guards, salaries were raised. To attract beginning teachers, perhaps we should pay them more than prison guards."

SC teachers vilified, underpaid in anti-public school state | The State thestate.com/opinion/op-ed/art

Academic corp snark Show more

centrism mini-rant, bullying Show more

rich people are for eating not for listening to

knowledge should be free
knowledge should be free of charge
knowledge should be free of restrictions
knowledge should be available
knowledge should be protected
knowledge should be archived

discourse summary: use CWs Show more