Matt Hodgkinson
Head of #ResearchIntegrity at @Hindawi #openaccess journals, ex PLOS & BMC. Quora Top Writer 18. @CambridgeGreens member. Married to @MsSim40. All views my own!
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Looking for the smoking gun: the academics taking on Big Tobacco
Bath researchers seek to combine scholarly rigour with campaigning zeal
Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him
What could "nerd tunnel vision" possibly mean?
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Public invited to have their say on ideas for improving central Cambridge's streets and open spaces
RESIDENTS, workers and visitors are being invited to comment on a new vision for making the streets and open spaces of central Cambridge more pleasant places to spend time in.
Matt Hodgkinson
"Residents, workers and visitors are being invited to comment on a new vision for making the streets and open spaces of central Cambridge more pleasant places to spend time in."
Comments to @camcitco by 14 Oct.
PR: cambridge.gov.uk/news/2019/09/1…
Consultation: cambridge.gov.uk/consultations/…
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Making Space for People: Vision, Aims and Objectives and Strategies consultation
This consultation is your opportunity to say how we can improve the streets and spaces of central Cambridge.
Matt Hodgkinson
"Residents, workers and visitors are being invited to comment on a new vision for making the streets and open spaces of central Cambridge more pleasant places to spend time in."
Comments to @camcitco by 14 Oct.
PR: cambridge.gov.uk/news/2019/09/1…
Consultation: cambridge.gov.uk/consultations/…
4d
Celebrating Peer Review Week
To mark Peer Review Week 2019, we asked some of our Chief and Associate Editors for their thoughts on peer review and why it is essential to scholarly communications.
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Huge decline in songbirds linked to common insecticide
Neonics—pesticides introduced to plants at the seed stage—act like an appetite suppressant for birds, making them lose weight within hours.
Matt Hodgkinson
Smoking suppresses the appetite due to nicotine. Turns out neonicotinoid insecticides do the same thing to birds.
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Evidence of the effectiveness of e-cigarettes: dismal or disrupting?
Public health professor Kamran Siddiqi from the University of York tweeted today about a conference presentation from Robert West, who apparently was arguing that e-cigarettes “are perhaps the only…
A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him.
How the Many-Worlds theory of Hugh Everett split the Universe – Sean Carroll | Aeon Essays
Hugh Everett blew up quantum mechanics with his Many-Worlds theory in the 1950s. Physics is only just catching up
Matt Hodgkinson
TIL that the lead singer of Eels is the son of the man who proposed the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum theory. Thanks, @seanmcarroll & @aeonmag
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Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers
While the Prime Minister defies the law and insists Britain will leave the European Union on 31 October, his backers stand to make billions out of the disaster.
Matt Hodgkinson
"£8.3 billion of short positions has been taken out by hedge funds linked to the Prime Minister & his Vote Leave campaign, run by his advisor Dominic Cummings, on a ‘no deal’ Brexit"
Rich Tory/Leave backers will make 💷 from a #NoDealBrexit economic crash
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Chaos is being normalised. It is all part of Boris Johnson’s pernicious plan | Paul Mason
The prime minister has deliberately brought darkness to our democracy and to our streets. We must resist, says writer and broadcaster Paul Mason
Matt Hodgkinson
"Among the urban, educated and salaried working class this moment already feels like the start of the poll tax rebellion. But in small town, deindustrialised communities there is confusion" - @paulmasonnews on #BrexitChaos
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Hype vs. Reality at the MIT Media Lab
The “food computer,” a high-profile lab project, has been hailed as a revolutionary device that could help feed the world. Former employees say the project is more salesmanship than science, and a symptom of the Media Lab’s &ldqu
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Matt Hodgkinson
@PrisonPlanet @realDonaldTrump Context is everything. Climate change doesn't affect everywhere the same all the time. Arctic sea ice has generally declined & this year is no exception, but around Svalbard, where the ship was stuck, ice has been slightly above the 1981-2010 average mobile.twitter.com/Istjenesten/st… [1/5] pic.twitter.com/IbFzMi7Q8R
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Greens' new peer Natalie Bennett vows to carry on protesting
Party’s former leader says she aims not to get too at home in chamber she wants abolished
Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations
The publisher is scrutinizing researchers who might be inappropriately using the review process to promote their own work.
How climate change is driving emigration from Central America
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such as drought, exacerbated by climate change, are driving people to leave too.