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Alison Hoens
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
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Clinical Professor, Knowledge Broker, Physical Therapist, Knowledge mobilization specialist
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Public domain ebooks 🧪 standardebooks.org/blog/public-...
Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog
Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!
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January 1, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Happy to help people living with knee osteoarthritis interpret research about the best exercise for them. Thank you @acejointhealth.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Color engineering for science communication 🧪 www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...
Color Engineering
The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.
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December 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Are open access datasets the solution to the risks of open access science ? 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
Safeguarding Open Science from exploitative practices
Open research and data transparency are a bulwark against unethical activities, but can also introduce integrity risks. In this Perspective, Danny Maupin, Matt Spick and Nophar Geifman argue that free...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Article-level metrics preferable for author recognition than journal-level metrics 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Published peer review results are ‘better’ than unpublished reviews 🧪 “… published peer review reports were longer and had more informative content, with the greatest difference found in the number of “suggestion and solution” sentences” www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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BMI - falling out of favour as an indicator of adiposity 🧪 x.com/jamainternal...
JAMA Internal Medicine on X: "Editor's Note: Defining obesity by clinical outcomes, not just body size, may advance care and target those at greatest health risk. https://t.co/hNXbr6BGKz https://t.co/Up4Q0b0XNG" / X
Editor's Note: Defining obesity by clinical outcomes, not just body size, may advance care and target those at greatest health risk. https://t.co/hNXbr6BGKz https://t.co/Up4Q0b0XNG
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December 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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AI and healthcare professionals can both provide misinformation 🧪 x.com/bmj_latest/s...
The BMJ on X: "Both doctors and large language models are driven to produce misinformation owing to a shared pressure to provide answers, prioritising the appearance of competence over accuracy. These behaviours stem from shared underlying mechanisms #BMJChristmas https://t.co/ZfVgsQLpRk" / X
Both doctors and large language models are driven to produce misinformation owing to a shared pressure to provide answers, prioritising the appearance of competence over accuracy. These behaviours stem from shared underlying mechanisms #BMJChristmas https://t.co/ZfVgsQLpRk
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December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Recent review on the science of adjusting goal setting 🧪 x.com/sciencnews/s...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Wow, a home for papers entirely generated by AI 🧪
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aiXiv - AI Scientists Community
aiXiv - AI Scientists Community
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December 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Are citations valued more highly than policy impact? 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Social Scientists: Policy Impact Undervalued by Universities
Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have, a new Sage survey finds.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A metric to capture authorship order 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A home for publishing replication studies 🧪 elifesciences.org
Latest research
eLife works to improve research communication through open science and open technology innovation
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December 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Alison Hoens
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JointHealth™ express - New blog post from #JointJourneys, life with arthritis by Carrie: What moves you?

Comment & let us know what moves you!

Read now: bit.ly/JointJourney...

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What moves you? - Joint Journeys
In her latest blog, Carrie shares what keeps her moving in the rainy and wet season.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Will AI lead to a global ‘knowledge collapse’? 🧪 x.com/caulfieldtim...
Timothy Caulfield on X: "What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ https://t.co/lkBwk9nkne "...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing. What’s at stake, then, isn’t just" / X
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ https://t.co/lkBwk9nkne "...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing. What’s at stake, then, isn’t just
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November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Handwritten notes are more helpful than typed motes 🧪 x.com/sciencnews/s...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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“We could have asked ChatGPT” Students fight back against instructor use of AI for slide and voiceover generation 🧪 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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November 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A potential home for replication studies 🧪 elife-rp.msubmit.net/html/elife-r...
Please note: authors do not need to have already posted their research as a preprint for an initial evaluation by eLife. During submission authors can indicate if they have already posted a preprint, and if not, can ask us to deposit the work as a preprint to bioRxiv or medRxiv, as appropriate.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"Using 72,703 documents (2000-2019) from three domains (i.e., research, journalism, and policy-making) that mention these ideas, we count the mentions of these ideas in each domain, estimate their domain-specific contexts, and track and compare differences across domains” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2511.03378
Beyond Citations: Measuring Idea-level Knowledge Diffusion from Research to Journalism and Policy-making
Despite the importance of social science knowledge for various stakeholders, measuring its diffusion into different domains remains a challenge. This study uses a novel text-based approach to measure ...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Undeclared use of AI - academic misconduct? 🧪 www.csescienceeditor.org/article/unde...
Undeclared AI-Assisted Academic Writing as a Form of Research Misconduct - Science Editor
Abstract The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broadened the academic editor’s job scope, and one must now worry about undeclared use of generative AI in manuscript preparation. Whil...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Proof that having a pet is good for you 🧪 “In overarching multivariate analyses, we found clear support for the association between pet ownership and cognitive/brain health in an adult sample ranging up to 74 years. These effects were strongest for dog owners” x.com/shiningscien...
Shining Science on X: "Also: Pet ownership is associated with greater cognitive and brain health in a cross-sectional sample across the adult lifespan https://t.co/FqpDJ22nzg" / X
Also: Pet ownership is associated with greater cognitive and brain health in a cross-sectional sample across the adult lifespan https://t.co/FqpDJ22nzg
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November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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New metric “Scholar h-index (Sh-index)” accounts for a researcher’s position in author lists to give higher score for first or last authorship 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reposted by Alison Hoens
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It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃

Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of pumpkins. The colour of pumpkins is due to carotenoid compounds such as beta-carotene, the same compound that gives carrots their orange colour. The vegetal aroma of pumpkins is mainly due to cis-3-hexen-1-ol, along with other six-carbon alcohols and aldehydes. Canned pumpkin is often not the same type of pumpkin as those used for carving, and consequently, the aroma compounds differ, including burnt-smelling 2-methylbutanal, coffee furanone, and furfural. Pumpkin spice flavour has little to do with pumpkin and more to do with the spices added, including cinnamon, nutmeg and clove.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Measuring impact: the productivity and research diversity indicator measures “a combination of the number of descendant papers … and the number of research directions emerging from it” 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A method for evaluating the productivity and research diversity of an individual scientific research paper
We develop a method for evaluating the productivity and research diversity of an individual scientific research paper. The method is based on the prod…
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October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Fascinating exploration of how scientific writing has changed over the past 60 years
“Our data suggest that writers have gradually shifted from modal verbs (e.g., may, must) to lexical verbs (e.g., suggest, show, demonstrate)”🧪
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Frontiers | “We find that…” changing patterns of epistemic positioning in research writing
IntroductionEpistemic positioning refers to the writer’s commitment to the truth of a proposition and assessment of its potential impact on readers. Despite ...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM