very well laid out article/argument. Worth a read "From means to meaning in the study of sex/gender differences and similarities" from Carla Sanchis-Segura & Rand R. Wilcox bhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130222400013X

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📢 Join us tomorrow for the next invited talk “AI, reproducibility and open science: examples from image processing” by Neil Cronin 📆 This Thursday, November 7, 16:30 CET 💻 Registration: eventbrite.com/e/ai-reproduci…

Hey followers - if you haven’t moved to Bluesky yet, I really encourage you to try it. It’s MUCH better than Twitter and so many of the people you follow are already there. I’m on SimonFrCox.bsky.social Here’s some tips if you make the move. Hope to see you there.

Sri Kosuri Michael Eisen bioRxiv/arXiv have shown people find ways to pick what to read before such proxies are assigned. Meanwhile, HHMI have shown you can assess people without resorting to those proxies. 2/2

#ReviewLikeATweet #StrangerThings MDPI @Diagnostics_mdpi 1 art-Round 1 🥇0 words (Lucian Puscasiu) 🥈13 words (Mihai Cristian Dumitrascu) 🥉 26 words (Anonymous) 🗞️ 34 words (Ana Valea) Thorough review of the original manuscript❓ PubSmear mdpi.com/2075-4418/13/4…

I didn't noticed all these co-first authors because such status is not available/visible on PubMed. It is also not displayed on most journal websites unless you click for more details. I've discussed this issue before on my blog with recommendations: jean.fan/2019/10/20/all… 2/3

🚨Announcing new #OpenHardware project to measure traffic patterns in scientific poster sessions (w/anonymous & IRB-safe data). The single most powerful thing we can do to improve poster sessions is create better measures. Details & how you can test/contribute:

Who reviewed this paper? A few days ago Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: buff.ly/3UMIguf. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny. Since

🧵 on surprising revelations from our study of specialized foundation models (FMs beyond vision/text): after evaluating dozens of scientific & time series FMs we found that most weren’t even competitive with simple supervised models, some with as little as 513 parameters. 1/n

This is not at all why we're leaving X. It's become a misinformation cesspool and it's impossible to have thoughtful arguments here any more. Have you tried engaging with any "vaccine skeptics" here? Evidence and facts have no meaning here. It's a pure propaganda engine. 1/

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BlueSky is still small and a bit of a bubble. But there are many good reasons for being on BlueSky too. It feels almost exactly like twitter but under the hood it has some substantial improvements.

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eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate | Retraction Watch | buff.ly/4hHBlfT

This is getting exciting. Over 20 abstracts submitted. The committee will be looking at them next week. Looking forward to these discussions. There is still time to submit (due Monday 18th). Google form link: forms.gle/v5FJ21oLcJQokw…

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I'm not posting here anymore, but this is worth an exception! See the thread on 🦋: bsky.app/profile/julien…