Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

An own-goal in replication science--retraction of a paper that reported high replicability

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  A 2023 paper reporting high replicability of psychology experiments has been retracted from Nature Human Behavior . The retraction notice ...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

The NAS proposes that bans on studying marijuana and its effects should be relaxed

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 The National Academy of Sciences has just issued a new report on marijuana and public health.  Among their recommendations is that bans on ...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Golden Goose awards for woodpeckers, penguins, and artificial intelligence

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  The Golden Goose awards are given each year to " recognize the tremendous human and economic benefits of federally funded research by...
Monday, September 23, 2024

A 40 year old proof about top trading cycles is corrected (by two Berkeley grad students)

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 Science (and math) can be self-correcting, sometimes slowly.  Here's an article that corrects the first proof that the top trading cycl...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Fraud in physics? Room temp superconductors, again

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  It should come as no surprise that it's not only social sciences that can be roiled by accusations of research misconduct . Here's...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Incentives and mis-incentives in science (Freakonomics part II)

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  Freakonomics has a second post on fraud in science, and you can listen or read the transcript here: Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? Two quo...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

"Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?" Freakonomics interviews Max Bazerman and others

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Below is the latest Freakonomics podcast (and transcript), on fraud in academia.  Those most in the headlines weren't available to be in...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

2023 EINSTEIN FOUNDATION AWARD FOR PROMOTING QUALITY IN RESEARCH

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 Here's the press release from the Einstein Foundation in Berlin : THE WINNERS OF THE 2023 EINSTEIN FOUNDATION AWARD FOR PROMOTING QUALI...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Pushback against high prices in academic publishing: open access fees and e-textbooks to libraries

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  The Guardian has the story: ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees. Entire board resigns over actions ...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Morality in Economics, as viewed from Sociology (Georg Kanitsar in European J. of Sociology)

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Georg Kanitsar , a young sociologist, undertakes the task of looking at how economists think about morality (with a focus on experimental an...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

The 2023 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research is now soliciting nominations

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The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research is now soliciting nominations for the 2023 award. → Nominations and Applica...
Monday, December 5, 2022

The 2022 Einstein Foundation Awards

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 Here are the  Recipients of the 2022 Einstein Foundation Award s Einstein Foundation Individual Award Winner 2022: Gordon Guyatt , for his ...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Scientific honors and gender gaps

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 Changing from an old equilibrium to a new one can involve some actions that may not persist once a new equilibrium is reached.  Here's ...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Market design in an historical perspective, by Basshuysen in J. Economic Methodology

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 I pay some attention to how market design is discussed in the history/sociology of science and methodology/history of thought literatures (...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Transplant science, transplant politics , and public perception--the case of living-donor livers

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  Liver transplants from living donors are on the increase in the U.S., so liver transplants are coming to more closely resemble kidney tran...