Publons – Now Part Of Your Verifiable Online Digital Curriculum Vitae
BJUI,
Last year I introduced Publons via a BJUI Blog . It is pleasing that Wiley, the publishers of the BJUI, have now partnered with…
Now, isn’t that sweet?
Neuroscientia,
When I opened one of my social media pages today, I saw a message from a friend of mine which was urging people to not believe…
Studies Aren’t Everything We Know: Some Drug Trials Never Get Published
Lifehacker,
Clinical trials are the basis of doctors’ understanding of whether a drug is safe and effective. But the trials that get…
The Dex Diaries, Part 4: A Perpetual Motion Machine of NIH Funding?
Fetishes I Don't Get,
Pregnant patients and their obstetricians are told an off-label use is "safe and effective" by a researcher who then turns…
Computational approaches may expedite drug repurposing for rare diseases
Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome,
Drug repurposing is predicated on the fact that many diseases are caused by the dysregulation of similar signaling pathways, or…
Le GERAR se penche sur les recommandations GRRAS.
Le blog du GERAR,
Le GERAR s’intéresse à la validité des protocoles de recherche et à la fiabilité des mesures utilisées. Le lien est évident…
Science Journalism and the Inner Swine Dog
Fragments of Truth,
A search of the PubMed database, which indexes scholarly biomedical articles, reveals that 997,508 articles were published in…
Effect of gender and ITPA polymorphisms on ribavirin-induced anemia in chronic hepatitis C patients
HCV Research and News,
J Hepatol. 2013 Nov;59(5):964-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2013.06.030. Epub 2013 Jul 10. Scherzer TM, Stättermayer AF, Stauber R…
Back to school special
Computing for Psychologists,
Unimatrix-0 High School has really excellent attendance and discipline…
Lazy Science: Can the Life Sciences Handle All This “Big Data”?
Science Over a Cuppa,
There was a recent article in The New Yorker titled, “Steamrolled by Big Data,” which reminded me of the trend occurring now in…
Down with Glam; Up with Fast
Whizbang,
A lot of folks are trying to reinvent the way we share research. I cannot remember the last time I read a paper journal; even…
Science Show-and-tell
Mendeley Blog,
Back in 2006, Moshe Pritsker thought to use video technology to capture and transmit the intricacies of life science research…
The Dex Diaries, Part 4: A Perpetual Motion Machine of NIH Funding?
Fetishes I Don't Get,
Pregnant patients and their obstetricians are told an off-label use is "safe and effective" by a researcher who then turns…
Show me a PICTURE and let me LISTEN to your words
LipheLongLurnERdok,
from sloanreview.mit.edu It’s new resident week. One of the talks given was about making great presentations by my brilliant…
Show me a PICTURE and let me LISTEN to your words
LipheLongLurnERdok,
from sloanreview.mit.edu It’s new resident week. One of the talks given was about making great presentations by my brilliant…
That Squid On Your Plate Could Inseminate Your Mouth
Danna Staaf's blog,
I'm here today to talk about a very strange paper: Penetration of the oral mucosa by parasite-like sperm bags of squid: a case…
On human health, interesting the public, and good scientific journalism...
Escaping Anergy: The Immunology Research Blog,
from http://evidencebasedliving.human.cornell.edu/In addition to the "pulled from the scientific journal headlines" research…
Who Reads Journals?
Neuroskeptic,
Yesterday, I was faced with a typically academic dilemma: which journal to submit to?I'd written a paper, one which…
AGING indexed by PubMed
Ouroboros,
I follow the aging literature using (among other tools) a set of RSS feeds that monitors recent journal articles in PubMed. …
A Brief History of Bipolar Kids
Neuroskeptic,
Can children…
10 things you can do in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Dr Petra Boynton,
1. Get educated – then share the…
On Longevity, Reality, and Critical Thinking
Existence is Wonderful,
Every now and then, I receive a random e-mail from a random person along the lines of, "Hi! I found your blog. Can you tell me…
Experts: hired lackeys -
Dr Aust's Spleen,
It is a bit of a tough gig being an “expert” these days. Not so much in what I do, of course. It is not as if there is all…