There is plenty of room for a healthy science-based environmentalism, but finding the room in the American political house has always been difficult. The current administration brings together the horseshoe wacko excesses of the worm-brained Robert Kennedy, Jr., and the crony capitalism of Felonious Trump. In this toxic, post-truth milieu, environmental groups such as Sierra Club and Greenpeace are both complaining about their setbacks,[1] as well as stepping up their own propaganda.| Schachtman Law
Cosa è un wicked problem? Si tratta di un problema complesso, difficile da risolvere perché la sua natura è in continuo mutamento, interconnessa ad altre questioni che ne impediscono l’identificazione. Nessuna soluzione è davvero giusta, ogni prova o tentativo di soluzione è irreversibile, non si può procedere secondo il modello trials and errors. Questo tipo …| Open Science @Unimi
La domanda è lecita e ce la siamo già posti, ma se la pongono anche Hutton, Pattinson e Rodgers di Elife in un post sul blog di DORA.| Open Science @Unimi
Last June, I released a summary of the recent publishing delays at 3,475 journals. The post attracted lots of attention via Twitter and Nature News, primarily because scientists are frustrated with the sluggish pace of publishing. However, a major question remained. Are publication delays getting shorter or longer? Kendall Powell, writing a feature for Nature News released in tandem with this post, contacted me. Her investigation had uncovered a widespread belief that delays were …| Satoshi Village
2015 was a year of the preprint. While posting manuscripts prior to peer review and journal publication has long been practiced in physics, preprints are just catching on in the biosciences. Last year, labs started universally preprinting, and preprints were billed as the solution to accelerating an ever more laborious publishing process. To give some context, PeerJ PrePrints and bioRxiv both launched in 2013. Prior to 2015, PeerJ published on average 1.2 preprints per …| Satoshi Village
Tre matematici si mettono nei panni di un ricercatore “strambo” (weirdo) un po’ romantico e molto ostinato che decide per moltissimi buoni motivi che pagare per pubblicare non è affatto una buona idea. | Open Science @Unimi
Back in November 2024, I posted that the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence was completed, and that its publication was imminent. I based my prediction upon the National Academies’ website that reported that the project had been completed. Alas, when no Manual was forth coming, I checked back, and the project was, and is as of today, marked as “in progress.” The NASEM website provides no explanation for the retrograde movement. Could the Manual have been DOGE...| Schachtman Law
I used to think it was merely a post-COVID19 hiccough, but the extensive delays in receiving reviews for submitted manuscripts that I am seeing near constantly now are the symptoms of a much larger…| ConservationBytes.com
Quite a bit late this year, but I’ve finally put together the 2023 conservation / ecology / sustainability journal ranks based on my (published) journal-ranking method (as I’ve done every year since 2008). After 16 years of doing this exercise, I can’t help but notice that most journals don’t do much differently from year to […]| ConservationBytes.com
Researchers were told their allegations were false, but they still went ahead and attacked a leading vaping company with baseless claims The post One of the worst ever tobacco control papers is ‘corrected’ appeared first on The Counterfactual.| The Counterfactual
Edit April 20th, 2021: thanks to Christos Petrou I found a bug in my code. I was considering both “Section” and “Collection” articles as Speical Issue. The whole analysis ha…| Paolo Crosetto