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Does tweeting about research attract more citations?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • 1 min

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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The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter
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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The need for digital intelligence
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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How many replication studies are enough?
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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Cyberterrorism paper under attack for plagiarizing from multiple sources
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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Researchers debate whether female computer coders face bias
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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“A field of crop scientists” — Twitter delivers collective nouns for researchers
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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Creepy-crawlies, cultural tales and clever canines: this week’s hot topics
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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Satirical paper puts evidence-based medicine in the spotlight
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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What’s in a journal name?
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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Researchers wrestle with co-authorship
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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How to judge scientists’ strengths
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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Twimpact & Altmetrics
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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