Alison Hoens
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
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Clinical Professor, Knowledge Broker, Physical Therapist, Knowledge mobilization specialist
Using social media to disseminate science - wht its important and how to do it well 🧪
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From publication to Dissemination: Using Social Media to Extend Scholarly Reach and Impact
Abstract. In academic medicine, publication has often been treated as the endpoint of scholarship. In today’s crowded digital environment, however, publica
https://academic.oup.com/academicmedicine/advance-article/doi/10.1093/acamed/wvag144/8687820
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Leveraging LLMs for manuscript preparation by scientists for whom English is not their first language 🧪
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Scientific Writing, Generative AI, and the Non–Native English Speaker
This Viewpoint explores whether the utility artificial intelligence (AI) tools for non-native English researchers may compromise the epistemic accuracy of scientific writing.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2848649
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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited
An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01615-4
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Proposing an “ethically-guided hybrid peer review system that integrates generative artificial intelligence with human expertise while addressing fundamental shortcomings of current review processes” 🧪
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https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpm-2025-0285/html
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How are preprint servers and open science platforms affecting the scientific process? 🧪
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The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics
Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-026-10260-6
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Are website adaptations for AI being supported more than those for disability? “When the audience is AI, accommodation is offered with a wink. .. But when the audience is a disabled person, it it has historically been treated as an afterthought” 🧪
techpolicy.press/the-web-is-b...
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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.
https://techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people
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Sleep deprivation - beneficial health effects of catching up on sleep on the weekend is great news 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is associated with reduced mortality risk - Nature Communications
Existing research primarily focuses on average sleep duration, overlooking dynamic sleep patterns in real-world settings. Here, the authors show that acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72461-1
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Hallucinated citations often prescribe authorship to already prominent and male scholars 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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Exercises attenuates aging 🧪
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Exercise attenuates the hallmarks of aging: Novel perspectives
The number and proportion of individuals aged 60 years and older are steadily increasing. However, increased life expectancy is accompanied by a decli…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254625001164?via%3Dihub
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Want to know what a webpage knows about you when you open it? Try this site
sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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Fabricated citations- “The fabrication rate increased more than 12 times” from 2023-2026, 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers
Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext
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Paper mills in academia- “Our findings show that paper mills are a large, organized, and often public market that commercializes scientific misconduct, not limited to papers, but infiltrating multiple parts of the research ecosystem” 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
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Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
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“Aerobic exercise, walking, and jogging, as well as strength exercises and yoga, are on par in terms of efficacy with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT),78” 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Depression
Depression is a common illness that affects people within every society around the world. It afflicts the young and the old and everyone in between, and as such poses an immense global burden. New int...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2826%2900201-1/fulltext
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“AI can streamline workflows, correct language, improve clarity & enable analyses as well as integration of data … Used carelessly or deceptively, AI can undermine scientific credibility & erode trust” 🧪https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-026-09870-9
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Artificial intelligence and large language models as a new threat to scientific truth – a call to action - European Spine Journal
European Spine Journal -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-026-09870-9
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Consider using AI to draft posts for social media promotion of your published manuscripts 🧪
jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=...
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Evaluating Large Language Models for Post-Publication Promotion: A Blinded Comparative Study of Social Media Posts in Public Health
Doskaliuk B, et al. J Korean Med Sci. 2026 Jun;41:e168. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2026.41.e168
https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2026.41.e168
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Should AI review of manuscripts be included in the process of peer-review? 🧪
aaceendocrine.ai/articles/202...
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Stop pretending AI peer review isn’t happening
https://aaceendocrine.ai/articles/2026/04/stop-pretending-ai-peer-review-isn-t-happening/
28 days ago
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Smartphone addiction effects learning 🧪
rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outp...
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Research Portal
https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/graduate/The-effects-of-smartphone-addiction-on/99900890804401842
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The 7 deadly sins of AI in medicine 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Seven deadly sins in artificial intelligence for digital medicine - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Seven deadly sins in artificial intelligence for digital medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02607-4
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50% of AI generated responses to health questions were ‘problematic’ 🧪
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https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4/e112695
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Alison Hoens
Intentionally fabricated study gets published and is retrieved in LLM searches - Humans and AI are both deceived and the disinformation is perpetuated
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
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Intentionally fabricated study gets published and is retrieved in LLM searches - Humans and AI are both deceived and the disinformation is perpetuated
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
about 1 month ago
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Don’t feel guilty about napping - it’s good for your brain 🧪
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A nap can recalibrate homeostatic and associative synaptic plasticity in the human cortex
Nighttime sleep renormalizes net synaptic strength (homeostatic plasticity) and the inducibility of long-term potentiation (LTP)-like plasticity (asso…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811926000418
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AI errors are Inevitable 🧪
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
about 2 months ago
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Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
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Recent review of the literature on AI impacts on health behaviour change 🧪
www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79677/
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The Development and Use of AI Chatbots for Health Behavior Change: Scoping Review
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are technologies that facilitate human-computer interaction through communication in a natural language format. By increasing cost-effectiveness, inte...
https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79677/
about 2 months ago
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Hallucinated citations are polluting scientific literature 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=61180560
about 2 months ago
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People have variable skills in using AI to search for a diagnosis
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Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y
about 2 months ago
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What increases citations? More authors, longer titles (not with more or longer words or question marks but with colons and dashes), avoiding all caps, doing Network MAs and SRs 🧪
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Authorship, titles and open access as drivers of citation performance in orthopaedics: a scientometric analysis - Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Background Bibliometric analyses are increasingly used to explore how scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, and perceived. In orthopaedics, research output has expanded rapidly over the past ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10195-026-00911-z
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AI crawler use rising at the expense of local media 🧪
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At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media | CBC Radio
It's been 25 years since Wikipedia first launched, but what does its future look like in a world where traditional media is on the decline and AI is on the rise?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/wikipedia-25-year-ai-effect-9.7117795
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Where do we draw the line in AI use for manuscript writing? 🧪
socopen.org/2026/02/22/w...
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Where should SocArXiv draw the AI line?
A case that helps sort out the questions for an AI policy at SocArXiv.
https://socopen.org/2026/02/22/where-should-socarxiv-draw-the-ai-line/
3 months ago
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Students stressed by potential AI detection of plagiarism 🧪
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Student Stress
Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear, has students on edge.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2026/02/25/fear-being-flagged-ai-detectors-drives-student
3 months ago
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Predatory journals “As predatory journals continue to thrive, the burden falls on researchers, institutions and policymakers to safeguard the credibility of scientific literature” 🧪https://x.com/jphysiother/status/2020383699087553019?s=12
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Journal of Physiotherapy on X: "🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor" / X
🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor
https://x.com/jphysiother/status/2020383699087553019?s=12
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“Beginning February 11, 2026*, arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation” 🧪
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/u...
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Attention authors: Upcoming policy change to non-English language paper submissions – arXiv blog
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/
4 months ago
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AI output depends on AI input. More open access for science is needed 🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/artificial-intelligence-and-the-interpretation-of-the-past/8FE3F2CB6BBFAD49F75FFC3031158A5A
4 months ago
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Is Wikipedia needed now more than ever? 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on
The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00074-1
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Publications - what languages are most prevalent? 🧪
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<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte....
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70055
4 months ago
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The delay in publishing corrections to manuscripts 🧪
theconversation.com/when-science...
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When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes
Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.
https://theconversation.com/when-science-discourages-correction-how-publishers-profit-from-mistakes-272657
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“analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles “ 🧪
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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003574
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What should i cite?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.14949
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What Should I Cite? A RAG Benchmark for Academic Citation Prediction
With the rapid growth of Web-based academic publications, more and more papers are being published annually, making it increasingly difficult to find relevant prior work. Citation prediction aims to a...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14949
4 months ago
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reposted by
Alison Hoens
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
4 months ago
Find out how to support the ethical, safe & effective use of generative AI & large language models in health care research. Join the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation on Feb. 9 for a session with
Alison Hoens
& Pascal Bolla: https://ow.ly/JXxk50XXpGG
UBC Department of Physical Therapy
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Strategies to Support Ethical, Safe, and Effective Use of Generative AI/Llms in Healthcare Research Activities | Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation
https://ow.ly/JXxk50XXpGG
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Wikipedia data used to train AI 🧪
apnews.com/article/wiki...
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Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
https://apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7
4 months ago
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Public domain ebooks 🧪
standardebooks.org/blog/public-...
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Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog
Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
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Happy to help people living with knee osteoarthritis interpret research about the best exercise for them. Thank you
@acejointhealth.bsky.social
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Color engineering for science communication 🧪
www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...
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Color Engineering
The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.
https://www.chartography.net/p/color-engineering
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Are open access datasets the solution to the risks of open access science ? 🧪
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Safeguarding Open Science from exploitative practices
Open research and data transparency are a bulwark against unethical activities, but can also introduce integrity risks. In this Perspective, Danny Maupin, Matt Spick and Nophar Geifman argue that free...
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004851
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Article-level metrics preferable for author recognition than journal-level metrics 🧪
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Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3003532
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Published peer review results are ‘better’ than unpublished reviews 🧪 “… published peer review reports were longer and had more informative content, with the greatest difference found in the number of “suggestion and solution” sentences”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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https://www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/article/pii/S1751157725001221
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BMI - falling out of favour as an indicator of adiposity 🧪
x.com/jamainternal...
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JAMA Internal Medicine on X: "Editor's Note: Defining obesity by clinical outcomes, not just body size, may advance care and target those at greatest health risk. https://t.co/hNXbr6BGKz https://t.co/Up4Q0b0XNG" / X
Editor's Note: Defining obesity by clinical outcomes, not just body size, may advance care and target those at greatest health risk. https://t.co/hNXbr6BGKz https://t.co/Up4Q0b0XNG
https://x.com/jamainternalmed/status/2001291292312064175?s=12
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