Research – Science, Technology, Society

PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication

Posted on December 3, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists
Chris Lee, arstechnica.com

Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more pap…

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New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Seeking Peer Review (studyingjudith.wordpress.com)
Peer Review: An Introduction and Guide (digital-scholarship.org)
A “Stack Overflow of academic research” (umichhon352fall13.wordpress.com)
How to fix peer review (economist.com)

US cities employ precog algorithm to predict murder

Posted on January 16, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

US cities employ precog algorithm to predict murder
By Kim Zetter, wired.co.uk

Politics

Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you?

New crime-prediction software used in Maryland and Pennsylvania, U…

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Movie Review : Minority Report (infotracking.wordpress.com)
Pushback against ‘Big Data’ begins (zdnet.com)
What’s The Secret To Great Infographics? (infographiclovers.wordpress.com)
How to Impact Future Performance (incentive-intelligence.typepad.com)
Minority Report, Morality and Muuuurrderrr (hagiographic.com)

Hide and Sleep

Posted on January 12, 2013April 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Hide and Sleep | Dwell)

The Crazy Things We Do In Our Sleep (and How to Treat Them) (lifehacker.com)
Improve Sleep by Exercising More (expsychlab.com)
The Battle for Sleepytime (howlifehaschanged.wordpress.com)

Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers

Posted on January 12, 2013April 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers – Information Management Blogs Article)

Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com)
Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself? (guardian.co.uk)
Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com)
Two Week Capacity Building Programme for Faculty in Social Sciences (knowledgesteez.wordpress.com)

Ethnographic tools examine human behavior

Posted on December 23, 2012April 19, 2013 by timbatchelder

You, Under the Retail Microscope
By Ben Steverman -, bloomberg.com

Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

It’s the classic holiday face-off. On one side, you have the wary shopper, who is often “just browsing” and more and more likely to purchase only online. On the other, there’s the salesperson, wh…

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Rich ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities (kaapvaal.wordpress.com)
Carrie Yury: Freefalling Ethnographer: Life Inside a Startup (huffingtonpost.com)
Raft just moved into Ethnographic Photo Research Phase. Collaborate with us at (quirky.com)

The Science Of Sleep

Posted on September 13, 2012February 16, 2013 by timbatchelder

‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep
Maureen Corrigan, npr.org

‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Fresh Air from WHYY

Step, if you will, into my bedroom at night. (Don’t worry, this is a PG-rated invitation.) At first, all is tranquil: My husband and I, exhausted by our day’s labors,…

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