Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Enhancing Scientific Integrity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences--Nominate an Expert for an NAS workshop

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  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are soliciting nominations for a workshop on  Enhancing Scientific Integrity...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

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 Today's NYT has a long opinion piece about (my former Stanford colleague) Jay  Bhattacharya in his role as the new head of the National...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

The 2025 Golden Goose awards

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 In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.  Here's it's backstory .  Here...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Politics and science disagree about drinking and climate change...

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 It turns our that worries about drinking were just as woke about worries about climate change. The NYT has the story on drinking, CBS on cl...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Reputations take a long time to build but can be quickly destroyed

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 US support for science is one of the things that will be hard to make reliable again. Here's a story from the Washington Post, about an...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Fake science at scale, via organized paper mills (in PNAS and the NYT)

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 Here's a recent paper from PNAS, analyzing the organized activity of paper mills producing fraudulent papers. The entities enabling sci...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Open Letter from NAS Members to U.S. Senators and Representatives urging support for science

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In a victory of optimism over experience, I continue to sign a small fraction of the open letters that come my way.  Also, it's good t...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Stanford celebrates the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (and recalls university-government collaboration on science)

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 Remember when universities and the Federal government collaborated on big science? The bold bet that built a telescope "When the first...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Interdisciplinary science: a heated dispute

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 Here's an article in the latest PNAS, about issues in evolution that I know nothing about, but I was struck by how clearly the author m...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

NSF slashed again

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The "S" in NSF has again attracted the attention of the Trump administration.  The journal Science reports the story:   NSF faces ...
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...