Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…
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Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems
How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts
Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems
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Citizen science games (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
particpatory science (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
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Hiring and firing a DBA
LLMs and performative productivity
Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub
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The Ground Truth Institute
How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world
Research – Open Heart Mind
Agora Citizen Network
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Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation
'Generative CI' through Collective Response Systems
The knowledge layer for collective intelligence
Becoming a stranger in my own field
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Big Tech’s War on Human Achievement | Compact
The release of #ClaudeDesign left me wondering what a tool like this could look like for academics (rather than designers) I then used Claud…
What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a…
TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts
Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery
Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…
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Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
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I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the…
A New Paradigm for Scientific Publishing, Peer Review, and Impact Assessment
Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems
datasetpapers — a public research experiment
Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to…
Andreas De Block on Twitter / X
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Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop Report
From Access to Participation: Opening the Evaluation of Knowledge
An epistemology for democratic citizen science
Cool example of participatory research from The Long Haul. Different from many citizen science projects where scientists bring the questions…
How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts
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Bee 🐝 (@sweetbee.vip)
The Trace and the Artifact | shishyko!
Curvenote® (@curvenote.com)
The new way we’ll do science
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Science: A New Golden Age
Plan S
Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance | David Bollier
Reclaiming the Computing Commons
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy
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