Kamalita
@kamapi13.bsky.social
Just trying to understand the world and be a decent teacher and epidemiologist.
Interested in epidemiologic methods, nutrition, cardiometabolic health, microbiome, research integrity, teaching and learning. But mostly academic rant, really!
Interested in epidemiologic methods, nutrition, cardiometabolic health, microbiome, research integrity, teaching and learning. But mostly academic rant, really!
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I thought this was really insightful: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After I burned out, physics helped me understand what had happened to me – and to move on | Zahaan Bharmal
I thought hard work equalled success. I had to realise that’s not always how it works, in science or in life, says Google employee Zahaan Bharmal
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I thought this was really insightful: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“No, we’ve all accepted that the goal is to publish anything and everything and see what sticks. More students. More “collaborations”. So many papers that no human can possibly be paying very much attention to any of it. And we all know where the incentives lie.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“No, we’ve all accepted that the goal is to publish anything and everything and see what sticks. More students. More “collaborations”. So many papers that no human can possibly be paying very much attention to any of it. And we all know where the incentives lie.”
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Good points all. I would add that we should hardly be surprised people are turning to LLMs to do their research for them when there is not enough time to get stuck into important problems and you see your colleagues somehow publishing 3 papers for every 1 you do.
December 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I don't understand why some people present their research in a way that doesn't help their audience to understand what they did and what their results really mean.
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I don't understand why some people present their research in a way that doesn't help their audience to understand what they did and what their results really mean.
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Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture, says David Budtz Pedersen
go.nature.com/3Y0652P
go.nature.com/3Y0652P
Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that
Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.
go.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture, says David Budtz Pedersen
go.nature.com/3Y0652P
go.nature.com/3Y0652P
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
Totally agree and I hope to do my share as well www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
Why Science Needs to Prioritize Mentoring
Progress is usually incremental and depends on innumerable contributors, our guest columnist writes. So we ought to focus on developing them.
www.chronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Totally agree and I hope to do my share as well www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
"Are things so different in our time?"
Well...
Well...
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"Are things so different in our time?"
Well...
Well...
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Stop being a lame-o and replace dplyr with the more slappin genzplyr.
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Stop being a lame-o and replace dplyr with the more slappin genzplyr.
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I am slow to react to this recent Stockholm Declaration on scientific publishing. A lot of it sounds good, but I don't see how we get from here to there. I worry nothing substantial will happen until the cost disease kills the host.
![3. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
Reward scientific achievement based primarily on quality—not quantity measures of today’s ‘reputation economy’ metric system [8].
Discourage ‘salami-slicing’ of results to obtain ‘least publishable units’; reduce the abundance of review articles (meta-analyses) and commentaries that over-burden reviewers and can too easily be generated using AI.
Rankings of academic achievement with metrics such as citation counts, ‘journal impact factor’ (JIF) and ‘publication number’ must be used responsibly because they often do not correlate with research quality [9] (see also CoARA—Reforming Research Assessment). 7](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ta2whs6wjtpljvpqgs5leu36/bafkreieiasfhsrhanmpgthgdkcub5gsezdu5yy6ekaiv633gvvzygdwmxe@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I am slow to react to this recent Stockholm Declaration on scientific publishing. A lot of it sounds good, but I don't see how we get from here to there. I worry nothing substantial will happen until the cost disease kills the host.
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This. Also: We’ve no idea how much groundbreaking research we might actually be missing out on when core research doesn’t have the opportunity to gradually unfold, take place without being tailored to surface claims about high impact and fantastic deliverables.
We need more "unfunded" research, not less. Or rather, we need more "core" funding and much less project based funding. Then universities can *invest* in core research infrastructure (including people), reduce precarity, and focus on growing and retaining talent.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This. Also: We’ve no idea how much groundbreaking research we might actually be missing out on when core research doesn’t have the opportunity to gradually unfold, take place without being tailored to surface claims about high impact and fantastic deliverables.
Really enjoyed the Epidemiology Counts podcast episode on consequential epidemiology with Sandro Galea!
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Really enjoyed the Epidemiology Counts podcast episode on consequential epidemiology with Sandro Galea!
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I've never experienced anything like this in my life, where people keep telling me that "we have to use AI or else we'll be left behind" but they don't actually tell me exactly what problem they are hoping to solve with the "AI" or how we would know it was useful. But we must use it! Apparently.
March 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've never experienced anything like this in my life, where people keep telling me that "we have to use AI or else we'll be left behind" but they don't actually tell me exactly what problem they are hoping to solve with the "AI" or how we would know it was useful. But we must use it! Apparently.
😍https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/24/magazine/sulawesi-indonesia-earth-secrets-biodiversity.html
Sulawesi Is the Island That Keeps Earth’s Most Ancient Secrets Alive
Sulawesi, Indonesia, blurs the boundaries between myth and ecology. What might it reveal about our past – or destiny?
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
😍https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/24/magazine/sulawesi-indonesia-earth-secrets-biodiversity.html
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Today I have mostly been reading this great paper by Andy Stirling www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today I have mostly been reading this great paper by Andy Stirling www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We are hosting virtual Replication Games on Friday November 13th, 2025 with @ukrepro.bsky.social ro.bsky.social. This is our 2nd year collaborating with UKRN. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We are hosting virtual Replication Games on Friday November 13th, 2025 with @ukrepro.bsky.social ro.bsky.social. This is our 2nd year collaborating with UKRN. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
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It's so tiresome to think of your work as something to defend or fight over, or that has to show you as better or cleverer than other people.
Shared ideas, time to explore them, thinking about if they work or not and how to do things well that work for all they should be doesn't suit a battle.
Shared ideas, time to explore them, thinking about if they work or not and how to do things well that work for all they should be doesn't suit a battle.
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's so tiresome to think of your work as something to defend or fight over, or that has to show you as better or cleverer than other people.
Shared ideas, time to explore them, thinking about if they work or not and how to do things well that work for all they should be doesn't suit a battle.
Shared ideas, time to explore them, thinking about if they work or not and how to do things well that work for all they should be doesn't suit a battle.
Does anyone know if there's a space for publishing discussion points from a journal club?
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Does anyone know if there's a space for publishing discussion points from a journal club?
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Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we@jpeg)
October 3, 2023 at 8:20 AM
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
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Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/...
TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
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TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/...
TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
🧵
TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
🧵
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How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before"
<- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
<- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
June 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before"
<- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
<- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Friends, I have news.
It is very good news.
You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.
jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...
It is very good news.
You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.
jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing the Medical Evidence Project
And the quest to make less dead people
jamesclaims.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Friends, I have news.
It is very good news.
You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.
jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...
It is very good news.
You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.
jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...