transparency

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On resource constraints and merit

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Analysis Science Big Science Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Science and Technology India-based Neutrino Observatory ISRO Jadugoda jugaad let teachers teach NASA particle physics R&D funding resource constraint Sabine Hossenfelder Sean Carroll Superconducting Super Collider Swarnajayanti Fellowships transparency Vannevar Bush

In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some scientists pushed back asking which of the male laureates who had been selected…

The scientist as inadvertent loser

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Analysis Science Bioinformatics Bioinformatics journal citation citation racket H-index impact factor Journal of Theoretical Biology Kuo-Chen Chou Lorenz attractor peer review post-publication peer-review preprint papers preprint repositories reviewer coercion scientific research transparency trustlessness

Twice this week, I'd had occasion to write about how science is an immutably human enterprise and therefore some of its loftier ideals are aspirational at best, and about how transparency is one o…

Another controversy, another round of blaming preprints

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Analysis Scicomm Science 2019 nCoV Anand Ranganathan bad journalism bad science bioRxiv hegemony IIT Delhi Jonathan Pruitt post-publication peer-review preprint server preprints scientific journals The American Naturalist The Hindu The Wire Science transparency Wuhan coronavirus

On February 1, Anand Ranganathan, the molecular biologist more popular as a columnist for Swarajya, amplified a new preprint paper from scientists at IIT Delhi that (purportedly) claims the Wuhan coro…