Times Higher Education reveals the machines are moving beyond physical work and simple sorting, and can now fool academic gatekeepers with their composition skills… in article… Read the rest “Robot writer fools journals’ peer-review system.”
Wired brings up the rather unpleasant prospect of a bug in MRI software invalidating 15 years of brain-scan results:
… Read the rest “MRI Mulligan? 15 years of neuro research might just have been zapped.”Three of the most popular pieces of software for fMRI – SPM, FSL and AFNI
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction:
… Read the rest “…or maybe not.”From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor of Mesoamerican
BBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have a very special remote submersible… Read the rest “David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface”
Long-time science journalist Joe Palca (NPR, Science, Nature) will be answering questions at a Reddit AMA around 1pm today.
If you’ve got a question you need to have answered about… Read the rest “Go ask Joe Palca a question.”
Science has the convoluted story of the prostate-cancer drug that lowers testosterone levels enough that people are willing to try it as a cure for pedophilic impulses, with the help of … Read the rest “Prostate drug tested as pedophilia treatment… in crowd-funded experiment.”
NPR’s Skunk Bear turns us on (in general, but specifically with this) observing the outsized influence of unanticipated consequences – singling out for awards all the times… Read the rest “Celebrating happy accidents with The Golden Mole”
This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in 1894.
Reaching for the stars,… Read the rest “Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.”
Nature reports on the outgoing president’s attempt to boost research & development funding by a mandatory four percent:
… Read the rest “Obama tries to boost science funding on his way out.”With less than a year before he leaves office, US President
New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones:
… Read the rest “It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.”Semantic Scholar, which launches
Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get so good at … Read the rest “Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…”
Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary and obfuscatory)… Read the rest “Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.”
That, according to Nature, is the call issued by ecologist Stephen Heard, who wants researchers to keep their prose whimsical, funny, elegant and moving:
… Read the rest “Make science beautiful, researchers.”In a guest post on the Tree of Life
This is from Salon, so not exactly science reportage here, but still:
… Read the rest “Post-Script: The House just passed a bill barring scientists from advising the EPA on their own research.”In what might be the most ridiculous aspect of the whole thing, the bill forbids scientific experts from participating
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