The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

They published our paper today!

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

http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k959 #bioethics

You don't have to continue to engage with people if you can't tell whether they're arguing in good faith, even if they get mad when you ask to leave a conversation

I just remembered that my research unit's symposium, "Science and Skepticism: Critiquing Bad Research in an Anti-Science Era" was recorded and you can watch it! Right now!!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfMfJihLOASUGugqzcO8754Zb5u15fhLG #bioethics

🚎 , the Ethics Emojo™

And I have suspicions about which ones are most likely, based on which academic journals send your password back in plain text when you sign upon their submission system

#62-64 are especially relevant to us white academics who want to be good allies to people of colour

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ne95dm/how-to-be-a-white-ally-to-people-of-color h/t @maloki

One of these days, The Lancet or NEJM or JAMA or something is gonna get hacked or something and all we'll have left of wide swaths of the scientific literature is people's personal archives and Sci-Hub!

Turn CW's on every post by default

Make users have to turn them off

How to remove the Researchgate branding from a PDF you got from there because it's really obnoxious!

(Using only pdftk in the terminal)

$ pdftk researchgate.pdf cat 2-end output clean.pdf
$ rm researchgate.pdf

(Actually it just takes out the 1st page of any pdf)

New avi!

I want to like Mac OS, and I even used to

But I nope away every time these days because

MAKE AN APPLE ID TO UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEM SOFTWARE APPLE NEEDS TO KNOW

SYNC ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFO TO THE ICLOUD IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO

DO YOU HAVE AN APPLE ID YET DO YOU? DO YOU? DO YOU???