Frank Norman

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

Just in case you've never heard of LinkedIn, here's a blogpost by me about it. [Repurposed from a short talk I did recently]. occamstypewriter.org/trading-know...

TBH I’m not sure that there is a leader in the field yet, but it’d be good to move away from filtering on journal prestige or proxies.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

It’s be good if it could filter by one of the research integrity scores.

YouTube video by ResearchRabbit Welcome to the new ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit big updates www.youtube.com/watch?v=St4C... - first impression much better interface , a lot of the new features are similar to LitMaps (there is a partnership). Sadly some features are now under paywall (advanced search) unlike researchrabbit in the past. (1)

This is a new one on me. #readingtechniques

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.

We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Wikipedia has a mild conservative bias, as it insists on what it calls 'reliable sources' - which mostly means they have been published by capitalist gatekeeping institutions.

The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.

Promotional poster for the event with a curtain and wall, with profile images of Andy and Francesca

How does research move beyond academic journals to influence policy, practice, and public understanding?

I'll be chatting with Francesca Brazzorotto from @kargerpublishers.bsky.social on Tuesday 4th Nov as part of their People & Science Live series.
Register Free
www.linkedin.com/events/73834...

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs
Editorial @nature.com this week
And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/d41...

'Tim Hitchcock, emeritus professor of digital history at...Sussex, said TNA has restricted access to some documents on 20th-century history....Hitchcock and other researchers have been involved in negotiations with TNA to reopen access to closed records. But...current progress is slow.' 1/3

I hope some enterprising travel agents will arrange tours of Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service.

The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.

Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.

Get in touch

YES! I so agree with this.

Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Yes, of course. But I'm old, so the habit of thinking that words should have meaning is hard to shake.

The reasoning as to why it's 'not racist' seems like Orwellian double-think. It makes absolutely no sense.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

I'm driven mad by the over-representation of Reform MPs and spokespeople in the media.

Literally the only reason you even notice is because you are racist. The fact that this is being debated is sending me insane.

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...

"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”

Absolutely. Please get on with it.

Apologising for being caught out. For phrasing the thought in a way that didn’t disguise the racism enough.

Headline from BBC website

Farage demonstrates he doesn’t understand what ‘racist’ means.

Forgot to add hashtag #neurogeneticbollocks

As a librarian, I'd be more interested in the gene for borrowing books (and returning them on time)! I wonder if the two genes (buying/borrowing) have some antagonistic relationship?

So sorry. I hope you’re ok now. We’re not living in the country I thought we were.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I feel compelled to tell you what happened to me last night in a hotel bar in Nottingham...[1/10]

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Whenever I see reports about this project my brain reads ‘bathroom’ instead of ‘ballroom’. )‘Trump’s $230m bathroom’). The gold accessories would def fit in a bathroom.