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Mashup Score: 2The rise of predatory publishing - 11 day(s) ago
The defining characteristic of “scientific” journals classified as predatory is that they publish almost anything for a fee. The problem of predatory journals and publishers is neither recent nor g…
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Mashup Score: 1Why randomised controlled trials inevitably produce biased results - 1 month(s) ago
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Alexander Krauss, explains why despite social and medical sciences depending on randomised control trials, they face more biases than thought, impacting the reproducibi…
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Why randomised controlled trials inevitably produce biased results https://t.co/B3ZuDJp0lq via @LSEnews 's #AlexanderKrauss
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Mashup Score: 6How and why do the life sciences cite social sciences? - 2 month(s) ago
Drawing on a bibliometric study, Hongyu Zhou, Lin Zhang and their co-authors explore how and why life sciences researchers cite the social sciences and how this relationship has changed in recent y…
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RT @LSEImpactBlog: How and why do the life sciences cite social sciences? #STEMday #Interdisciplinarity https://t.co/FLMF9JKuw4
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Mashup Score: 6Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It – review - 2 month(s) ago
In Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It, Erica Thompson explores how mathematical models are used in contexts that affect our everyday live…
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Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It. Review of Prof @H4wkm0th 's outstanding book by @ConnorPChung https://t.co/N2tB267lP1
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Mashup Score: 66Misinformation is a threat to society – let’s not pretend otherwise - 3 month(s) ago
The concept of misinformation has recently been subject to a range of theoretical and methodological critiques. Sander van der Linden, Ullrich Ecker and Stephan Lewandowsky argue misinformation has…
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RT @CaulfieldTim: 🚨Important piece.🚨 Misinformation is a threat to society – let’s not pretend otherwis https://t.co/Qwc9goAx2S "...misi…
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Mashup Score: 21Citation indexes make research more unequal - 3 month(s) ago
When Garfield first launched his Science Citation Index in 1965, many criticised its unequal geographical coverage of the world’s scientific literature. Almost 60 years later, the problem has not g…
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RT @LSEImpactBlog: Citation indexes make research more unequal #Inequality https://t.co/8kgEysoybD
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Mashup Score: 4Creating a fully open environment for research code and data - 3 month(s) ago
Quantitative research in the social and natural sciences is increasingly dependent on new datasets and forms of code. Making these resources open and accessible is a key aspect of open research and…
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Creating a fully open environment for research code and data https://t.co/5g3qp61Tg1 via @ErikaPastrana1
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Mashup Score: 0Assisted dying – where next for the UK? - 3 month(s) ago
The tone of the conversation around assisted dying is changing in the UK, with bills on the matter making their way through Parliament and Keir Starmer having promised a free vote on the issue. Whi…
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Assisted dying: where next for the UK? https://t.co/Vj1b04sA5m via @LSELaw researchers
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Mashup Score: 2Camille Landais: The gender gap stems from the unequal allocation of childcare work between partners - 4 month(s) ago
Having children can slow down career progression significantly for women, but not for men. LSE Professor Camille Landais studied this difference in outcomes and labelled it the “child penalty”. He …
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The gender gap stems from the unequal allocation of childcare work between partners https://t.co/OGOvbYVAJ2 via @Camille_Landais
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Mashup Score: 1As newspapers close, local corruption thrives - 4 month(s) ago
The internet has upended local news production, introducing new media enterprises and eroding the ability of local outlets to provide investigative journalism. The capacity to monitor government of…
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As newspapers close, local corruption thrives https://t.co/jlMAtV4kf4 via @jemather et al
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The rise of predatory publishing https://t.co/gSlqGcXQ9z via @dergiades et al