In other science reform implosion news, the contested article including OSF & Data Colada authors on how preregistration & other rigor-enhanching practices led to high observed replicability (the one that couldn't produce its own preregistration) was just retracted www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Four labs discovered and replicated 16 novel findings with practices such as preregistration, large sample sizes and replication fidelity. Their findings suggest that with best practices, high replica...
Our Evolutionary Anthropology seminars are starting up again in October at UCL Anthropology. Free/open to all, and we're a friendly bunch! evoanthucl.wixsite.com/blog/post/op...#EvoAnth#BioAnth
Join us for our UCL Evolutionary Anthropology in-person seminars this term! These seminars are free to attend & open to all, and takes place in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room on Floor 2 of the UCL Anth...
“The amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales and Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of times higher” #BrexitBenefitswww.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food types
Based on the responses to a recent Bsky thread on open access, 3 key problems with universities' current repositories are: 1) Most members of the public don't know they exist or what they are for; 2) Discoverability (that is, lack thereof); 3) Inability to search across repositories impedes utility.
What’s next for repository infrastructure? Our next @rluk.bsky.social Digital Shift Forum is next Wednesday www.rluk.ac.uk/event/digita...
RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital s...
Here's a start at a Starter Pack for #medanthro#anthrosky
Link here to sign a letter asking for the pesticide ban which also impacts eg bees butterfly-conservation.org/emergency
Call on the Government to take urgent actionWondering where all the butterflies have gone? You're not alone. In 2024, we've seen butterfly numbers fall across the UK. With 80% of butterflies having d...
I have definitely noticed fewer butterflies this year. Really hope new government will FINALLY ban neonicitinoids which won’t help on top of the changing climate! 🧪🌍
Conservation group calls on government to ban insect-killing neonicotinoid pesticides outright
I wrote about the paucity of genetic evidence for very recent selective sweeps and the generally odd and sporadic nature of the ones we do see:
How do we make sense of the surprisingly few loci under selection in the past 5,000 years?
🚨 Here's CNN absolutely schooling the British media on how to cover the jailing of climate activists. "Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves"
The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for non-violent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged policing powers.
We're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...