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Imagine Scientific Author Lists as Film Credits

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…

26. March 202126. March 2021
Categories Science, Scientific Papers, Society, Politics and History

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…

7. March 20217. March 2021
Categories Health, Science

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…

16. January 202116. January 2021
Categories Science, Statistics

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….

1. January 20211. January 2021
Categories Science, Statistics

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…

26. November 202030. November 2020
Categories Science

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…

7. November 20209. November 2020
Categories Science

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…

28. October 202028. October 2020
Categories Science

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…

15. August 202015. August 2020
Categories Science

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…

29. July 202029. July 2020
Categories Science, Society, Politics and History

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…

20. July 202020. July 2020

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