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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

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

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 Health, Science

First Attempts to Reverse Aging in Humans

Most people think of aging as something inevitable. But not all agree and the research into aging and how to reverse it has become more…

12. July 202012. July 2020
Categories Science

The Effect of Sci-Hub on Science

In 2016 Alexandra Elbakyan was listed as one of the top 10 people who mattered in science by Nature. And indeed, her impact on science…

4. July 20204. July 2020
Categories Science

Retraction Watch – Tracking Retractions as a Window Into the Scientific Process

I recently learned about a cool website called Retraction Watch. They do exactly what the name suggests: They track papers that get retracted to highlight…

16. June 202016. June 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Science

Wednesday, 04.03.2020 – People Born Blind Seem To Be Protected From Schizophrenia

Link of the day: People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia These findings suggest that something about congenital blindness may protect a person from…

4. March 202026. February 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Technology

Tuesday, 03.03.2020 – Captain Joe And The Marvels Of Aviation

Link of the day: Captain Joe’s YouTube Channel Recently, my friend Tobi showed me the YouTube channel of Captain Joe, a pilot who explains lots…

3. March 20204. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Science

Sunday, 01.03.2020 – Betting On the Reproducibility of Scientific Studies

Link of the day: Replication Markets Replicatiomarkets is a scientific project that aims to assess how reproducible scientific studies are – and how we might…

1. March 202026. February 2020
Categories Health

Can the Coronavirus be Stopped through Contact Tracing and Isolation?

Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…

10. February 20208. March 2020

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