Oshima Science

Break down papers into claims, experiments, and evidence. See how they connect across papers.

We need more tiny knowledge projects—here’s one

Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book by Terry Tao and Tanya Klowden. The other day I was reading the sample chapter of a new book by Terence Tao and Tanya Klowden, on the so-called cosmic distance ladder. It’s a lovely piece of writing. The chapter tells the story of how Johannes Kepler, using data collected by Tycho Brahe, solved the puzzle of planetary motion. It puts us in the discoverers’ shoes: instead of working backwards from Kepler’s equations, we work forwards from the inexp

Dylan Wiliam on Twitter / X

The best journal article titles tell you what the study actually found, rather than being a teaser to make you read the paper. Here's a good example: "Spaced mathematics practice improves test scores and reduces overconfidence" https://t.co/iXxdkAgYPM ($)— Dylan Wiliam (@dylanwiliam) December 31, 2024

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rohit on Twitter / X

One of the most fun papers I've read in recent times. Excellent. Reminiscent of the good old days of science papers. pic.twitter.com/4a7qRTloSG— rohit (@krishnanrohit) December 30, 2024

News from Science editorial standards

A page listing the News editorial standards

Web of Science Master Journal List - WoS MJL by Clarivate

When Nature Calls: The Enshittification of Science and Its Enablers

Proof-of-work papers, policy laundering, and the collapse of self-correction

Daniel Christian Wahl: “Bioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary Health” - The Great Simplification

In the past century of abundant energy surplus, humanity’s globalized, large-scale approach to problem-solving

Planetary Lexicon: Key Terms in Earth System Science

Define 90+ terms in planetary science — from Anthropocene and tipping points to planetary boundaries and the ecosphere.

Peter Plavchan on Twitter / X

Came across this beauty of a Research Note. Looks like it was done by someone at JPL with a HS student. Pulled period and semi-major axis for Kepler and TESS transiting planets from the NASA Exoplanet archive, and verified Kepler's 3rd law. https://t.co/JSIlg6Aw5s— Peter Plavchan (@PlavchanPeter) September 27, 2024

Is there a ‘Goldilocks zone’ for paper length?

A hefty paper published in Nature has raised the question of whether data-dense research tomes can still be digestible.

NIK on Twitter / X

>sam altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet">rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes>the professor: using codex for a year>openai: has all his logs>checked every codex session tagged to N-S>found the most promising one>spun up 10,000… pic.twitter.com/RInlP88gmA— NIK (@ns123abc) September 8, 2026

The new way we’ll do science

Papers should become human-readable views over a graph of data, tools, results, and certificates.