Alison Hoens
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
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Clinical Professor, Knowledge Broker, Physical Therapist, Knowledge mobilization specialist
Don’t feel guilty about napping - it’s good for your brain 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
3 days ago
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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
3 days 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/
4 days 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
4 days ago
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People have variable skills in using AI to search for a diagnosis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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
4 days 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 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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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www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday...
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
24 days ago
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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/
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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
about 1 month 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
about 2 months ago
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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/
about 2 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
about 2 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? 🧪
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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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
2 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
2 months ago
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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 “ 🧪
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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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
2 months ago
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reposted by
Alison Hoens
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
3 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
3 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
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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Are open access datasets the solution to the risks of open access science ? 🧪
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
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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
4 months ago
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Article-level metrics preferable for author recognition than journal-level metrics 🧪
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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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
4 months ago
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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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AI and healthcare professionals can both provide misinformation 🧪
x.com/bmj_latest/s...
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The BMJ on X: "Both doctors and large language models are driven to produce misinformation owing to a shared pressure to provide answers, prioritising the appearance of competence over accuracy. These behaviours stem from shared underlying mechanisms #BMJChristmas https://t.co/ZfVgsQLpRk" / X
Both doctors and large language models are driven to produce misinformation owing to a shared pressure to provide answers, prioritising the appearance of competence over accuracy. These behaviours stem from shared underlying mechanisms #BMJChristmas https://t.co/ZfVgsQLpRk
https://x.com/bmj_latest/status/2001300604275073076?s=12
4 months ago
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Recent review on the science of adjusting goal setting 🧪
x.com/sciencnews/s...
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https://x.com/sciencnews/status/2000047308793430351?s=46&t=d_8UZ0KGhnWPg9PBlnBexA
4 months ago
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Wow, a home for papers entirely generated by AI 🧪
aixiv.science
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aiXiv - AI Scientists Community
aiXiv - AI Scientists Community
https://aixiv.science/
4 months ago
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Are citations valued more highly than policy impact? 🧪
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Social Scientists: Policy Impact Undervalued by Universities
Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have, a new Sage survey finds.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/12/social-scientists-policy-impact-undervalued-universities
4 months ago
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A metric to capture authorship order 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
4 months ago
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A home for publishing replication studies 🧪
elifesciences.org
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Latest research
eLife works to improve research communication through open science and open technology innovation
https://elifesciences.org/
4 months ago
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reposted by
Alison Hoens
Arthritis Consumer Experts & JointHealth™ Programs
4 months ago
JointHealth™ express - New blog post from
#JointJourneys
, life with arthritis by Carrie: What moves you? Comment & let us know what moves you! Read now:
bit.ly/JointJourney...
@schroeder-uhn.bsky.social
@arthritispower.bsky.social
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
@acr-journals.bsky.social
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What moves you? - Joint Journeys
In her latest blog, Carrie shares what keeps her moving in the rainy and wet season.
https://bit.ly/JointJourneysNovember2025
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Will AI lead to a global ‘knowledge collapse’? 🧪
x.com/caulfieldtim...
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Timothy Caulfield on X: "What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ https://t.co/lkBwk9nkne "...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing. What’s at stake, then, isn’t just" / X
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ https://t.co/lkBwk9nkne "...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing. What’s at stake, then, isn’t just
https://x.com/caulfieldtim/status/1992282624711421985?s=46&t=d_8UZ0KGhnWPg9PBlnBexA
5 months ago
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Handwritten notes are more helpful than typed motes 🧪
x.com/sciencnews/s...
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https://x.com/sciencnews/status/1991555166127157416?s=46&t=d_8UZ0KGhnWPg9PBlnBexA
5 months ago
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“We could have asked ChatGPT” Students fight back against instructor use of AI for slide and voiceover generation 🧪
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence
5 months ago
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A potential home for replication studies 🧪
elife-rp.msubmit.net/html/elife-r...
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Please note: authors do not need to have already posted their research as a preprint for an initial evaluation by eLife. During submission authors can indicate if they have already posted a preprint, and if not, can ask us to deposit the work as a preprint to bioRxiv or medRxiv, as appropriate.
https://elife-rp.msubmit.net/html/elife-rp_author_instructions.html#types
5 months ago
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"Using 72,703 documents (2000-2019) from three domains (i.e., research, journalism, and policy-making) that mention these ideas, we count the mentions of these ideas in each domain, estimate their domain-specific contexts, and track and compare differences across domains” 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03378
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Beyond Citations: Measuring Idea-level Knowledge Diffusion from Research to Journalism and Policy-making
Despite the importance of social science knowledge for various stakeholders, measuring its diffusion into different domains remains a challenge. This study uses a novel text-based approach to measure ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03378
5 months ago
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Undeclared use of AI - academic misconduct? 🧪
www.csescienceeditor.org/article/unde...
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Undeclared AI-Assisted Academic Writing as a Form of Research Misconduct - Science Editor
Abstract The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broadened the academic editor’s job scope, and one must now worry about undeclared use of generative AI in manuscript preparation. Whil...
https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/undeclared-ai-assisted-academic-writing-as-a-form-of-research-misconduct/
5 months ago
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Proof that having a pet is good for you 🧪 “In overarching multivariate analyses, we found clear support for the association between pet ownership and cognitive/brain health in an adult sample ranging up to 74 years. These effects were strongest for dog owners”
x.com/shiningscien...
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Shining Science on X: "Also: Pet ownership is associated with greater cognitive and brain health in a cross-sectional sample across the adult lifespan https://t.co/FqpDJ22nzg" / X
Also: Pet ownership is associated with greater cognitive and brain health in a cross-sectional sample across the adult lifespan https://t.co/FqpDJ22nzg
https://x.com/shiningscience/status/1985091546178527413?s=12
5 months ago
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New metric “Scholar h-index (Sh-index)” accounts for a researcher’s position in author lists to give higher score for first or last authorship 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
5 months ago
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reposted by
Alison Hoens
Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics
5 months ago
It's
#NationalPumpkinDay
! 🎃 Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in
@cenmag.bsky.social
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cen.acs.org/articles/93/...
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Measuring impact: the productivity and research diversity indicator measures “a combination of the number of descendant papers … and the number of research directions emerging from it” 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A method for evaluating the productivity and research diversity of an individual scientific research paper
We develop a method for evaluating the productivity and research diversity of an individual scientific research paper. The method is based on the prod…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751157725001014
5 months ago
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Fascinating exploration of how scientific writing has changed over the past 60 years “Our data suggest that writers have gradually shifted from modal verbs (e.g., may, must) to lexical verbs (e.g., suggest, show, demonstrate)”🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | “We find that…” changing patterns of epistemic positioning in research writing
IntroductionEpistemic positioning refers to the writer’s commitment to the truth of a proposition and assessment of its potential impact on readers. Despite ...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1634848/full
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PubMed likely not up to date 🧪
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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PubMed Central (PMC)
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
6 months ago
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBT...
. Open licensing for research with Creative Commons 🧪
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Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons
YouTube video by Creative Commons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBTfklg8q0
6 months ago
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An iption of where to publish negative reaults 🧪
jnrbm.biomedcentral.com
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Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine
Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine (JNRBM) will cease to be published by BioMed Central as of 1stSeptember 2017. BioMed Central will continue to host ...
https://jnrbm.biomedcentral.com/
6 months ago
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Ten LLMs were compared with 1070 medical students, 193 residents, 300 physicians. Testing revealed persistent limitations in LLM clinical reasoning, especially in models optimized for explicit reasoning 🧪
ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Assessment of Large Language Models in Clinical Reasoning: A Novel Benchmarking Study
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for clinical decision support, yet standard evaluations such as medical licensing exams overlook how clinicians update decisions in dynamic co...
https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIdbp2500120
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