In Academia author lists are source of endless contention. The current system is undeniably unfair. Almost all of the credit go to the first and…
Science
Infering Political Orientation From a Single Picture
In a new paper called Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial image, researchers took a data set of roughly 1m pictures…
Anti-Aging – Overview of the State of the Art
On Lesswrong JackH posted a very interesting overview of aging and the scientific progress made to reverse it. If we think about aging as a…
Three Months of Crowd-Forecasting Covid-19
Note: I posted this on the LessWrong Forum on December 31st 2020. It is somewhat related to this post I made about the project previously….
Crowd-Forecasting the Covid-19 Pandemic
Some time ago I started working on a crowd-forecasting app for my PhD (code). The app allows experts and non-experts to make predictions for the…
Replication Markets for Covid-19 Preprints
ReplicationMarkets is launching another project – this time users are asked to predict and bet on the success of preprint papers on Covid-19. The process…
Ten Years of Retraction Watch
Retraction Watch is a watchdog organization that monitors scientific misconduct and, well, watches the retraction of scientific articles. Not only is their work very thorough…
Using CRISPR to Create More Male Offspring
Scientists in California have used CRISPR, a gene editing tool, to engineer the genome of a bull calf. The idea is this: the region on…
How 70 Research Teams Came To Different Conclusions Based on the Same Data
70 research teams were tasked with analyzing the same identical set of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans. In many areas, they came to…
Is Sex Binary?
content note: discussion of biological sex and a binary classification thereof Update: Maybe one point warrants a bit more clarification: I indeed believe that people…