Getting rid of the GRE
An investigation by Science has found that, today, just 3% of “PhD
impact factor
Defending philosophy of science
From Carl Bergstrom’s Twitter thread about a new book called How
The scientist as inadvertent loser
Twice this week, I’d had occasion to write about how science
To see faces where there are none
This week in “neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what
The cycle
Is it just me or does everyone see a self-fulfilling prophecy here?
Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?
Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The
The case for preprints
Daniel Mansur, the principal investigator of a lab at the Universidade Federal
Priggish NEJM editorial on data-sharing misses the point it almost made
Twitter outraged like only Twitter could on January 22 over a strange
