Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2025

CDC’s laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

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 Statnews has the story: CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration ‘We are blind,’ researcher sa...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Open letter on Science

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  Here's the NYT story out this morning, Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers. Say Nearly 2,000 scientists urged...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Demonstrating for science (in Washington and elsewhere)

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 Scientists are more accustomed to demonstrating science than demonstrating for science, but that may need to change. Nature has the story...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

National Medals of Science and Technology (including Cynthia Dwork for differential privacy)

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 In one of the final acts of his administration, President Biden celebrates 25 distinguished scientists and engineers. (I'm particularly...
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  A 2023 paper reporting high replicability of psychology experiments has been retracted from Nature Human Behavior .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 ...