Matt Hodgkinson
Head of #ResearchIntegrity at #openaccess journals, ex PLOS & BMC. Quora Top Writer 18. member. Married to . All views my own!
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If Your University’s Administration Ran a Polar Expedition
McSweeney's Internet Tendency 34h 10 tweets
To Our Esteemed Officers and Everyone Else, As we begin this new year, we would like to take the opportunity to update our party’s Strategic Plan. ...
Bellingcat is Hiring: Data Scientist (Full-Time)
bellingcat 13d 3 tweets
Who we are: Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects: crime, conflicts, corruption, secret operations,...
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
Stephanie Kirchgaessner - the Guardian 32h 55 tweets
Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Between a rock and a hard place
Green World 43h 1 tweets
The decision of the Austrian Greens to enter into a governing coalition agreement with the right-wing Austrian People’s Party has been roundly condemned by Greens across Europe. In exchange for environmental policies, the Greens will support a ban...
PLOS Joins Other Publishers and Societies in Support of the Proposed White House Policy Regarding Federally Funded Research
Blogs.plos.org 6d 8 tweets
A Year Ago, An Israeli Research Group Said They Would Cure Cancer Within A Year. Did They Do It?
Forbes 60h 3 tweets
It has been a year since an Israeli biotechnology company went viral for promising they would have the cure for cancer within a year. Did they keep their promise?
Social Ecology: Radicalizing the Climate Movement
ROAR Magazine 44h 1 tweets
The struggle for climate justice cannot limit its focus to environmental issues. It is the hierarchical system as a whole that is threatening our planet and our lives.
Matt Hodgkinson "Climate justice is not always front and center in the labor or even worker cooperative arena. But shifting to worker cooperatives and community ownership of the means of production provides countless opportunities to ecologize those means & their chains." 44h
The Truth About Lie Detectors (aka Polygraph Tests)
https://www.apa.org 46h 1 tweets
Most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies.
Read Rachael's story
Justgiving.com 3d 1 tweets
Rachael is raising money to help Head to Toe Charity
If we don't start looking after doctors there will be no one left for patients
Metro 9d 10 tweets
I’ve found more than one distraught junior doctor who has resorted to using a cupboard as a bolt hole.
Man found guilty of aggravated assault against Owen Jones
the Guardian 5d 3 tweets
Court finds James Healy assaulted Guardian columnist because of homophobia and Owen’s leftwing views
Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?
Pubs.acs.org 8d 6 tweets
Matt Hodgkinson Joining "An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit" in the annals of sweary titles: "Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?" in Any bets on its placing on the Altmetric list? Via #altmetrics 6d
A degree of studying –  Students who treat education as a commodity perform worse than their intrinsically motivated peers
Impact of Social Sciences 7d 4 tweets
One of the pivotal transformations in the marketisation of higher education has been the introduction of tuition fees. A degree from a higher education institution can now, to some extent, be purch…
Matt Hodgkinson "Students who have a stronger consumer orientation achieve poorer academic outcomes because they are less likely to adopt a deep approach to learning" - in 6d
Deprivation strongly linked to hospital admissions
Cambridge Institute of Public Health 7d 1 tweets
Despite increases in overall life expectancy there is still an inequality, with lower life expectancy observed more often in disadvantaged groups. It is well known that those in higher social classes have a typical life expectancy several years...
10 Essential Strength Training Exercises You Need to Add to Your Routine
Runner's World 6d 1 tweets
Do these moves consistently, and you’ll run faster and stronger.
Matt Hodgkinson Wow! Nearly 4/5 of the way to my sponsorship target for my Cambridge Half Marathon run for Centre 33. Donate at 🙏 I've started strength training to help avoid injury 🏋️‍♂️ Today I did 9K at lunch - my long run will be 15K on Sun 🏃 6d
Aaron Olver
Facebook.com 7d 1 tweets
I don’t often post on Facebook barely ever, but this has to be the biggest joke I’ve ever seen. Imagine your sister (Mel Olver) buying everything for her prom (hair and makeup both booked as well) to...
Matt Hodgkinson This looks bad: in Colchester won't allow a disabled pupil who attends to go to her prom due to low attendance Equality Act 2010 has something to say about that #DisabilityRights 7d
Equality Act 2010
Legislation.gov.uk 7d 1 tweets
An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality...
Matt Hodgkinson This looks bad: in Colchester won't allow a disabled pupil who attends to go to her prom due to low attendance Equality Act 2010 has something to say about that #DisabilityRights 7d
Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
Wikimedia Foundation 7d 2 tweets
Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.* This latest development follows a 26 December 2019…
A paean to an advisor and his wife: Absurdly bad academic paper riles up Chinese public
SupChina 8d 1 tweets
China’s Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, a top Chinese scientific journal that’s been around for more than 40 years, has drawn a great deal of criticism for a 2013 paper that recently resurfaced online. Featuring a flattering depiction of the...
Whatever Happened to ______ ?
Longreads 7d 7 tweets
Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.