Nem tudo o que doureja é lúzio 9
Gene Repórter,
Mais uma rodada da gaiata ciência. Hall, N. 2014. The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for…
Some Covid Links
Cafe Hayek,
(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s the longer version of John Tierney’s warning that, “after the pandemic, Americans should never…
John Ioannidis uses the Kardashian Index to attack critics of the Great Barrington Declaration
Science-Based Medicine,
This isn't a title that I ever thought I'd use or a post that I ever thought I'd write, but John Ioannidis has really done it.
Assessing on-line medical education resources. A podcast with Peter Brindley
St.Emlyn's Blog,
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Last year I was contacted by Peter Brindley, Leon Byker and Brent Thoma to collaborate…
How Twitter is changing medical research
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
Esther Choo, M.D., who is among a growing number of physicians who use Twitter as part of their professional lives, says this…
Scientific Credibility and The Kardashian Index
Research Tools,
Source: https://mindhacks.com/2017/12/06/scientific-credibility-and-the-kardashian-index/ Scientific Credibility and The…
Food Safety Talk 183: Raw Raw Raw Almonds
Barfblog,
Image from PIRO4D at…
In the era of Brexit and fake news, scientists need to embrace social media
BREXIT,
Despite the near-constant clamour to do so, many academics remain understandably reluctant to use social media to communicate…
Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM): the new way to keep up-to-date
On Medicine,
Old versus new…
Kim Kardashian pairs up with an MIT post-doc to publish a scientific paper
Retraction Watch - duplicate deactivated,
Kim Kardashian is known for many accomplishments. But now she can add another to her resume: First author of a paper in the Drug…
Scientific Credibility and The Kardashian Index
Mind Hacks,
The Kardashian index is a semi-humorous metric invented to the reveal how much trust you should put in a scientist with a…
How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation | The Official PLOS Blog
Research Tools,
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2015/03/get-paper-noticed-join-current-scientific-conversationPrevious Next How…
My K-index
NeuroDojo,
Matthew Hahn reminded me of a paper that proposed the “Kardashian index” for scientists. I don’t like the paper. It demeans…
The top 50 science stars of Twitter | Science | AAAS
Research Tools,
Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/09/top-50-science-stars-twitterShare on facebook135Share on twitter Share on reddit …
Boyce Thompson Institute - Build a research profile |
Research Tools,
Source: http://bti.cornell.edu/research/research-resources/build-a-research-profile/Build a research profileTo build your…
A Narcissist Index (n-index) for academics
Eco-Evo Evo-Eco,
We all know the h-index, the number of papers by a given author that have been cited at least that many times. For instance, if…
Encircling Empire: Report #26 — Reviewing Force Multipliers
ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY,
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like…
TWiV 342: Public epitope #1
MicrobeWorld,
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove,
TWiV 342: Public epitope #1
virology blog,
On episode #342 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVniks discuss the structure of a virus that reproduces in an…
TWiV 342: Public epitope #1
This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello,
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy…
‘My professor demands to be listed as an author on many of my papers’
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
We need to transform the academic system so that integrity and honesty are the norm in terms of authorship as well as data and…
Où en est-on des réseaux sociaux académiques ?
URFIST Info,
Alors que l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux de chercheurs est toujours croissante, que les éditeurs s’y intéressent de plus en…
How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation
Public Library of Science,
By Victoria Costello, PLOS Senior Social Media
Sizing Sizing Ocean Giants: Patterns of #scicomm outreach in a marine megapaper
Southern Fried Science,
Last week, Craig McClain and many friends published Sizing Ocean Giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine…
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog,
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:'Like…
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 059
FOAM EM RSSFOAM EM RSS,
Welcome to the 59th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R
Kardashian Index, Anti-Vax and Ebola: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
CMAJ Blogs,
Alireza Jalali, MD, is Interim Head of Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Social Media…
Elsevier bad for your h-index?
Ferniglab Blog,
Bearing in mind that there are lies, damned lies and publication metrics (apologies to Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain)…
Elsevier bad for your h-index?
Ferniglab Blog,
Bearing in mind that there are lies, damned lies and publication metrics (apologies to Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain)…
Before the Kardashian Index
Greg Goldsmith's Website - A Few Thoughts,
Science recently published a letter I wrote to the editor regarding an article on social media as a means of outreach. For…
Why communicating with the public is a good career move for scholars
SAGE Connection - Insight,
A version of this post originally appeared on Social Science Space here and has been republished with kind permission of the…
The Drake index for academics
Simply Statistics,
I think academic indices are pretty silly; maybe we should introduce so many academic indices that people can't even remember…
The Drake index for academics
Simply Statistics,
I think academic indices are pretty silly; maybe we should introduce so many academic indices that people can’t even remember…
I’ve Never Been On a Top Twitter Science List
From The Lab Bench,
Shutterstock: http://ow.ly/CacQAI've never been on a 'top scientists to follow on Twitter' list.(I might now be on a #WomenTweetS…
Building Buzz Really Is a Good Career Move
social science space,
This still works really well, too: at the 2011 Association for Psychological Science convention, a member of APS talks with a…
Thanks for reading
CoreGenomics,
This morning someone made the 500,000th page view on the CoreGenomics blog. It amazes me that so many people are reading this…
Academics and Social Media
The Circle Bastiat,
At this week’s Strategic Management Conference in Madrid I participated in an interesting session on Media Innovations, along…
Academics and Social Media
Organizations and Markets,
| Peter Klein | At this week’s Strategic Management Conference in Madrid I participated in an interesting session on Media…
On “Kardashians” in science and the general relationship between achievement and fame
Pascal's Pensées,
I am not in the habit of commenting on ephemeral events, but this was brought to my attention by interested parties in a…
The Real Science Stars of Twitter
Altmetric.com,
I don’t think the top three science stars on Twitter are Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox and Dawkins. The honour, I think…
Increasing Impact One Tweet at a Time
OSU Libraries Blogs,
In a recent post, the news team for the leading journal Science took a look at the top 50 science stars of Twitter. The…
Increasing Impact One Tweet at a Time
OSU Libraries Blogs,
In a recent post, the news team for the leading journal Science took a look at the top 50 science stars of Twitter. The…
Totally meaningful lists and stuff
Tom Houslay,
Science magazine, ‘inspired’ by Neil Hall’s (borderline?) offensive ‘Kardashian-index’ paper (which has been torn apart by far…
Індекс Кардашян
ПАН БІБЛІОТЕКАР,
Безперечно, соціальні медіа – цінний інст
The Kardashian index: what happens when scientists Tweet more than they publish.
Seriously, Science?,
Does the science world have its own version of the Kardashians? According to this article (written by a British geneticist Neil…
Yet another science metric – the Kardashian Index
Infectious Thoughts,
Twitter exploded last week after Neil Hall, a professor at the University of Liverpool who studies the genomes of the parasites…
By equating social media use with narcissism, the Kardashian Index joke ignores wide disparity in research ecosystem.
Impact of Social Sciences,
Last week there was an eruption of discussion, debate and acerbic wit surrounding a published article by biologist Neil Hall…
The K-Index: Gender Morality and Social Media Use by Scientists
The Other Sociologist - Analysis of Difference... By Dr Zuleyka Zevallos,
Note: This blog post was first published on Google+ on the 31st of…
Somewhere else, part 154
Freakonometrics,
Some writings worth reading, discovered here and there, “It’s Your Duty to Be Miserable!” via http://chronicle.com/… “No End in…
Scientists on Twitter
Rhodes Library: Science and Pharmacy Faculties,
This post on BrainFacts.org by Jean-François Gariépy, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke…
Kardashian Index
Climate Etc.,
by Judith…
What Scientists Talk About When They Talk About Kim Kardashian
Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.,
Here’s Neil Hall, of the Centre for Genomic Research at the University of Liverpool: [C]onsider Kim Kardashian; she comes from…
Open Science News – 1 August 2014
Discussions – F1000 Research,
What was new in open science this week? A few days ago Neil Hall published this paper on Genome Biology calling for a new index…
The fuddy-duddies still thrive
Pharyngula,
Kate Clancy comments on a ‘satire’ published in a serious journal. Genome Biology published a satirical piece by Neil Hall today…
MyScienceWeek: Cutting-Edge Post-It Solutions
MyScienceNews,
This week, a host of high-tech solutions allowed the MyScienceWork editorial team to write, translate, scour the web for data…
We the Kardashians are Democratizing Science
Neuroconscience,
I had a good laugh this weekend at a paper published to Genome Biology. Neil Hall, the author of the paper and well-established…
Top 8 #AlternateScienceMetrics
Academia Obscura,
The post "Top 8 #AlternateScienceMetrics" originally appeared on Academia Obscura. The Twittersphere has been all a flutter…
Why #AlternateScienceMetrics was a success
biomolbioandco,
If you were under a rock or off Twitter yesterday, be sure to check #AlternateScienceMetrics for a laugh! — realscientists (@real…
Why #AlternateScienceMetrics was a success
biomolbioandco,
If you were under a rock or off Twitter yesterday, be sure to check #AlternateScienceMetrics for a laugh! — realscientists (@real…
Weekly Roundup
The Bubble Chamber,
The Russian lizard sex satellite, which had been orbiting unresponsively as reported by multiple outlets thrilled to be able to…
Scientists on Twitter.
BrainFacts.org Blog,
Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool has published a very interesting mini-study on scientists and Twitter. He developed…
The "Kardashian Index" Measures Whether Scientists Deserve Their Fame
io9: Top,
Everybody knows Kim Kardashian is "famous for being famous." But one researcher worries that some in the scientific community…
The public sphere of neuroscience
neuroecology,
I have complained in the past about the lack of a blogosphere in neuroscience. And it’s not just bad for the community – it’s…
Citations are not a measure of quality
opiniomics,
Edited 30/07/2014 – I got confused about who wrote what and when – apologies to Embriette and…
Citations are not a measure of quality
opiniomics,
Edited 30/07/2014 – I got confused about who wrote what and when – apologies to Embriette and…
Am I a Kardashiantist?
Judge Starling,
Neil Hall, co-director of the Centre for Genomic Research at University of Liverpool has recently suggested a Kardashian Index…