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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…

The Next Decade of Preprints Needs Experiments, Not Opinions

Lately, I have spent a considerable amount of time writing about my concerns regarding the direction of the preprint ecosystem and the behaviour of some of the actors within it. Increasingly, I wor…

BookHive | sci-fi spec fic book club ideas

sci-fi spec fic book club ideas — a book shelf by @awarm.space on BookHive

Scimeto - Automated Manuscript Integrity Checker

Upload your academic manuscript and get instant analysis of citations, references, statistics, retractions, and more. 21 plugins, 9 citation styles, free for researchers.

A budding discipline around how science gets read and judged - Aris

Scholarly publishing spent thirty years arguing about access. It has barely begun arguing about what readers do with the paper once they have it. At Aris we call that second argument scholarly interface design. Mike Morrison's community calls it ScienceUX. Either way it is becoming a field, and here is why it is worth your attention.

SciOS

Facilitating infrastructure for open science

SciOS

Facilitating infrastructure for open science

Technorealists, the silent majority? · Openness Praxis

you might find yourself standing in the unremarkable center

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.

Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience"

Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning

Explosivity by Javier Arbona-Homar | East Bay Booksellers

How explosions across history reveal the violence embedded in San Francisco’s landscape Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity unearths the hidden legacies of violence that have shaped the physical and cultural environment of the San Francisco Bay area.

Plaudit — How to Give More Than One Like to a Scientific Article | Challenges and Issues of Modern Science

Is it possible to give more than one like on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social networks? Have you ever wanted, just once, to “like with both hands”? If so — your wish has come true on the platform of our journal Challenges and Issues of Modern Science.

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate

What to do about Mythos

Les ScienceGuardians, fantômes de l’intégrité — TheMetaNews

Un groupe d’activistes anonymes s’emploie depuis près d’un an à suivre, voire à menacer juridiquement, les détectives de l’intégrité scientifique. Chroniques d’une guerre invisible.