social media
Helping Scientists Spread Their Research
Alison F. Takemura | Aug 1, 2016 | 1 min read
A platform called Kudos helps users disseminate—and explain—their publications for free.
Illustrating #FieldworkFails
Tanya Lewis | Jun 21, 2016 | 2 min read
An artist aims to publish a collection of stories of science gone awry.
Fieldwork Bloopers
Tanya Lewis | Jun 21, 2016 | 1 min read
Scenes from illustrator Jim Jourdane’s Fieldwork Fail: The Messy Side of Science
TS Picks: December 14, 2015
Tracy Vence | Dec 14, 2015 | 1 min read
New PhDs boost economy; Dutch universities strike open-access deal with Elsevier; #scibucketlist
Field Bloopers
Bob Grant | Aug 3, 2015 | 1 min read
Scientists air their most embarrassing fieldwork flubs on Twitter.
Batch Effect Behind Species-Specific Results?
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | May 19, 2015 | 4 min read
Reanalysis of Mouse ENCODE data suggests mouse and human genes are expressed in tissue-specific, rather than species-specific, patterns.
HIV in the Internet Age
Jef Akst | May 1, 2015 | 4 min read
Social networking sites may facilitate the spread of sexually transmitted disease, but these sites also serve as effective education and prevention tools.
Lab Bloopers Galore
Jenny Rood | Apr 24, 2015 | 2 min read
Readers reveal research mishaps
Lab Bloopers
Jenny Rood | Apr 22, 2015 | 2 min read
Reddit users share the worst mishaps they’ve witnessed while working in the lab.
Science Gone Social
Sara K. Yeo, Michael A. Xenos, Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael A. Cacciatore, and Dominique Brossard | Oct 1, 2014 | 4 min read
Scientists are beginning to embrace social media as a viable means of communicating with public audiences.
Setting the Record Straight
Daniel Cossins | Oct 1, 2014 | 10+ min read
Scientists are taking to social media to challenge weak research, share replication attempts in real time, and counteract hype. Will this online discourse enrich the scientific process?
#IceBucketChallenge Highlights Difficult Funding Decisions
Jef Akst | Sep 3, 2014 | 6 min read
The ALS Association has raised more than $100 million in donations through a charity campaign that went viral. How should that money be spent?
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Sep 1, 2014 | 3 min read
An Indomitable Beast, What If?, Superintelligence, and Dataclysm
How Long Is Too Long?
Tracy Vence | Aug 27, 2014 | 1 min read
Readers discuss the varied amounts of time they’ve waited for journals to respond to or act on their concerns regarding published papers.
Social Data for Ebola Surveillance
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | Aug 26, 2014 | 2 min read
Algorithms that map social media posts and mobile phone data can help researchers track epidemics.
PubPeer Threatened with Legal Action
Kate Yandell | Aug 19, 2014 | 3 min read
The moderators of the post-publication peer review forum say they could be facing their first legal case.
Introducing the “K Index”
Tracy Vence | Jul 30, 2014 | 2 min read
The Kardashian Index reflects how a scientist’s social media presence stacks up against her citation record.
A Face to Remember
Sarah Lewin | Apr 17, 2014 | 5 min read
Researchers show that a tuning algorithm can make one’s profile photo more memorable.
Blogger Reports STAP Success
Tracy Vence | Apr 1, 2014 | 2 min read
A stem-cell researcher claims to have reproduced stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency by following a revised protocol posted online last week.
Wither Social Media?
Tracy Vence | Jan 22, 2014 | 1 min read
Researchers apply epidemiological approaches to model user adoption and abandonment of sites like Facebook.