Tag: Scientific culture
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The lazy person’s perspective on programming: why you should code
Lots of people (myself included) bang on about coding. How great it is, how valuable it’s been, etc. You’re probably a bit bored of it. But if you’re not just yet, allow me to explain why it is probably a good idea for you to pick it up. Why am I uniquely qualified to do…
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The Death of the Academic Author: why we should focus less on the writer
A recent article exploring the relationship between exercise and mental health (Chekroud et al., 2018) has stirred a lot debate. It was an interesting study and gained a lot of traction, with over 2500 retweets of the original summary thread by Adam Chekroud and multiple articles by various news outlets e.g. the BBC, Time. There was…
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Notes on Paul Meehl’s “Philosophical Psychology Session” #08
These are the notes I made whilst watching the video recording of Paul Meehl’s philosophy of science lectures. This is the eighth episode (a list of all the videos can he found here). Please note that these posts are not designed to replace or be used instead of the actual videos (I highly recommend you…
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Why I blog under a pseudonym
Having a blog isn’t a particularly novel hobby. Almost everyone seems to have one, especially on Twitter, but writing a blog under a pseudonym is relatively rare (at least in the circles I move in). There are the three neuroscience giants: Neurocritic[note]Though Neurocritic revealed her identity in a recent and moving blog post I’m still…
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Interruptions, gender, social media, and confirmation bias
Interruptions are common in most conversations, but is there are general trend among those talking as to who interrupts whom? Recently David Schmitt tweeted about a paper called “Influence of Communication Partner’s Gender on Language” (Hancock & Rubin, 2014). It gained some traction as it featured a graph purporting to show women interrupt other women more than men. It…
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