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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…

Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers

It is important to provide credit.

BookHive | sci-fi spec fic book club ideas

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

Joanna Russ- SF and Technology as Mystification

Talk about technology, long familiar to science-fiction readers and writers, is getting popular in Academia too. Particularly interesting to humanists is the connection between technology and whatever their own particular subject happens to be; I've attended three such formal symposia in the last five years, six including SF conventions, and including informal discussions among students, in writing classes, SF classes, and elsewhere, somewhere between fifty and sixty.

Guide to Incrementals/Defining the Genre | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

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.