Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Does tweeting about research attract more citations?
Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis. But outside experts...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 2, 2019
- 1 min
The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter
It’s not your imagination: keeping up with the sheer amount of content that’s available today — whether it’s Twitter, the news, or the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
The need for digital intelligence
Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 26, 2016
- 1 min
How many replication studies are enough?
When psychologist Courtenay Norbury came across a paper this week that had similar conclusions to research she published 12 years ago,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 25, 2016
- 1 min
Cyberterrorism paper under attack for plagiarizing from multiple sources
A paper about combating cyberterrorism is coming under fire after allegations of plagiarism sparked on social media. The paper, which was...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 15, 2016
- 1 min
Researchers debate whether female computer coders face bias
Women coders are more competent than men as long as their gender is not disclosed, according to a new study. When their gender is made...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 5, 2016
- 1 min
“A field of crop scientists” — Twitter delivers collective nouns for researchers
When cancer researcher Ritankar Majumdar published a blog post about collective names of scientists and shared it social media, his idea...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 22, 2016
- 1 min
Creepy-crawlies, cultural tales and clever canines: this week’s hot topics
In this week's social selection column, I look at three scientific papers that were extensively discussed on social media. First, is a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 8, 2016
- 1 min
Satirical paper puts evidence-based medicine in the spotlight
A spoof paper showing that mothers kissing their children's "boo-boos" did not help them feel better spread like wildfire on social...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 11, 2015
- 1 min
What’s in a journal name?
Michael Eisen, a biologist from the University of California, Berkeley and co-founder of open access publisher Public Library of Science,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 26, 2015
- 1 min
Researchers wrestle with co-authorship
When it comes to authorship of scientific papers, questions over who should be the first author, who deserves the most credit and whether...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 11, 2015
- 1 min
How to judge scientists’ strengths
When Ewan Birney, co-director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, was procrastinationg over...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 28, 2014
- 1 min
Twimpact & Altmetrics
Tweets and blogs are ripping apart science papers within days of publication and impact factors have long been criticised for their...
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