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ResearchGate CEO: What I’d like to see scientists share on ResearchGate(researchgate.net)
1 points by junipergreen 8y ago|0 comments
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Researchers render cyberspace in 3D to make identifying threats easier(researchgate.net)
1 points by junipergreen 9y ago|0 comments
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Pizza over privacy? Stanford economist examines a paradox of the digital age(news.stanford.edu)
4 points by junipergreen 9y ago|0 comments
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Court Decision Hinged on the Oxford Comma(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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An entirely synthetic yeast genome is nearly complete(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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Can Facebook’s Machine-Learning Algorithms Accurately Predict Suicide?(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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ResearchGate raises $52.6M for its social research network for scientists(techcrunch.com)
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by junipergreen 10y ago
The blogs of the scientists who lived on fake Mars for a year in Hawaii make it clear how important food is for astronaut's mental health as well as physical nutritional needs: https://walking-on-red-dust.com/2016/
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by junipergreen 10y ago
I'm personally glad the kitchen gets cleaned daily, having worked places where employees were responsible for keeping it clean. That was a disaster. I feel like wiping the desks down weekly would be enough. Maybe there's a reason
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Scientists design facial recognition for lemurs to track them in the wild(wired.co.uk)
2 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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by junipergreen 10y ago
The results of that study do not surprise me at all. At my company, there are no rules about clutter, but the cleaners wipe down everyone's desk every day as best they can. I'm a clutter-free type of person: my desk has nothing bu
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Neuroscience methods tested on Atari 2600 failed, casting doubts on credibility(researchgate.net)
3 points by junipergreen 10y ago|1 comments
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E-Voting Refuses to Die Even Though It's Neither Secure nor Secret(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by junipergreen 10y ago|1 comments
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An interactive, statistical model of a zombie outbreak(vox.com)
2 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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by junipergreen 10y ago
Studies have shown a major factor in young people's likeliness of going into science is whether their families think highly of science and science careers (regardless of parents' education levels). I'd imagine the ivory-tower
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Failure moves research forward(researchgate.net)
1 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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Eurekalert hack: usernames and passwords stolen, embargoed resesarch released(ibtimes.com)
1 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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by junipergreen 10y ago
At least that kind of thing doesn't happen today. Take this study that says eating lots of pasta doesn't make you fat. Oh wait. (Note the two funding sources in the right-hand column) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_
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by junipergreen 10y ago
I'm curious. Does this apply to just French journals? Or just French scientists? How would that work with journals based in other countries? Or multi-national research collaborations?
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Human brain mapped in unprecedented detail(nature.com)
3 points by junipergreen 10y ago|0 comments
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by junipergreen 10y ago
The word "accident" is really indicative of the culture. Words shape how we think about things. As someone who's lived and cycled in both the US and Western Europe, I can say that the level of personal responsibility W. Europ
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by junipergreen 10y ago
Daunting as this list seems, of these points and fixes are of course interrelated. Even small tweaking can bring big improvements. Take open science. Improvements to funding are needed to promote long-term projects, but in absence of those
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by junipergreen 10y ago
Yes, I think the general public sees science as an unstoppable, infallible force. Most scientists I know already know and talk about these problems (though I agree this is the most comprehensive, coherent presentation of them I've seen
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Big Problems Facing Science(vox.com)
87 points by junipergreen 10y ago|71 comments
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by junipergreen 10y ago
Yeah, meant the bit about poor teenagers being reliable, because they need the jobs. Didn't mean to agree with the sentiment that middle-class kids are unreliable. Most probably aren't. Though I myself once flaked on a job in coll
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by junipergreen 10y ago
This is absolutely true. People, especially people in the position to be hiring others have some truly classist concepts of "values." Many think poor people are dishonest, likely to steal, lazy. Total rubbish.
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by junipergreen 10y ago
In the academic, Marxist sense, yes. But I was using the term "working class" rather as a synonym for minimum wage, blue collar workers, or in this case teenagers whose parents have those jobs. The point really is that middle clas
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by junipergreen 10y ago
"And they may face discrimination based on race, class or other factors." In urban areas, where access to transportation and availability of jobs is better, this is really the crux of the issue. Employers (often unfairly) view mid
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by junipergreen 10y ago
For regular, consistent productivity (not just the occasional project over a day or two) I have to change my physical environment. This means having an office I go to (or library when I was a student) that--and this is key--is far away enou
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by junipergreen 10y ago
Exposure to news from outlets I don't regularly read.

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