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Alison Hoens
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
Clinical Professor, Knowledge Broker, Physical Therapist, Knowledge mobilization specialist
"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 ...
arxiv.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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
x.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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
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 🧪
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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)”🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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 ...
www.frontiersin.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBT.... Open licensing for research with Creative Commons 🧪
Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons
YouTube video by Creative Commons
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October 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ten LLMs were compared with 1070 medical students, 193 residents, 300 physicians. Testing revealed persistent limitations in LLM clinical reasoning, especially in models optimized for explicit reasoning 🧪 ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Assessment of Large Language Models in Clinical Reasoning: A Novel Benchmarking Study
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for clinical decision support, yet standard evaluations such as medical licensing exams overlook how clinicians update decisions in dynamic co...
ai.nejm.org
September 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Think beyond ChatGPT: “Claude Opus 4 showed superior accuracy, reliability, and usefulness, with significantly fewer hallucinations. Readability scores were similar across models” 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Referential hallucination and clinical reliability in large language models: a comparative analysis using regenerative medicine guidelines for chronic pain - Rheumatology International
This study compared language models’ responses to open-ended questions on regenerative therapy guidelines for chronic pain, assessing their accuracy, reliability, usefulness, readability, semantic similarity, and hallucination rates. This cross-sectional study used 16 open-ended questions based on the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience’s regenerative therapy guidelines for chronic pain. Questions were answered by ChatGPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Claude 4 Opus. Responses were rated on a 7-point Likert scale for usability and reliability, and a 5-point scale for accuracy. Hallucinogenicity, readability (FKRE, FKGL), and similarity (USE, ROUGE-L) were also assessed. Statistical comparisons were made, with significance set at p < 0.05. Claude Opus 4 showed the highest reliability (5.19 ± 1.11), usefulness (5.06 ± 1.0), and clinical accuracy (4.06 ± 0.68), outperforming ChatGPT-4o (4.13 ± 0.96; 3.94 ± 0.85; 3.38 ± 0.72) and Gemini 2.5 (4.19 ± 0.98; 4.06 ± 0.93; 3.38 ± 0.62). Claude had the lowest reference hallucinations (RHS 4.44 ± 3.18) vs. ChatGPT-4o (8.38 ± 1.86) and Gemini 2.5 (8.75 ± 1.73). In semantic similarity, Claude (0.68 ± 0.08) and Gemini (0.65 ± 0.07) surpassed ChatGPT-4o (0.60 ± 0.09). Gemini led in ROUGE-L F1 (0.12 ± 0.03) vs. Claude (0.10 ± 0.02) and ChatGPT-4o (0.07 ± 0.03). Readability was similar, though Gemini had a higher FKGL (11.3 ± 1.06) than Claude (10.3 ± 2.09). Claude Opus 4 showed superior accuracy, reliability, and usefulness, with significantly fewer hallucinations. Readability scores were similar across models. Further research is recommended.
link.springer.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How to communicate numbers to patients / public 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How to Communicate Medical Numbers
This JAMA Insights provides evidence-based recommendations for communicating numerical information to patients.
jamanetwork.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Looking for ideas for recruiting a wider spectrum of the population? “Facilitators that can improve reach to these vulnerable populations include culturally tailored outreach, relationship-building with community leaders, and reducing logistical barriers” 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Barriers and Facilitators to the Recruitment and Engagement of Diverse Populations Into Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Review - Madison P Leia, Kaitlin See, Colleen Cuthbert, 2025
Patient and family advisory councils (PFACs) serve as structured collaborative groups where patients and caregivers partner with healthcare professionals to sha...
journals.sagepub.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Using AI/LLMs? - always check for generation of fake sources 🧪 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
arstechnica.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Be aware that you may need to opt-out of data sharing with your AI model 🧪 the-decoder.com/anthropic-us...
Anthropic uses a questionable dark pattern to obtain user consent for AI data use in Claude
Anthropic’s new data policy raises legal concerns with its use of questionable dark patterns.
the-decoder.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Catching AI fabricated stories 🧪 www.wired.com/story/how-wi...
How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer
We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.
www.wired.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reposted by Alison Hoens
Curious about which fields poast the most?

Medicine / Social science / Environmental science / Biochemistry

Note that these aren't corrected for field size, so love the strong showing from earth science too ⚒️🧪
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Oxempic/Wegovy etc: “Studies suggest muscle loss with these medications … ranges from 25% to 39% of the total weight lost over 36–72 weeks” 🧪 A portion of the weight loss is muscle loss- include resistance exercise training www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Muscle matters: the effects of medically induced weight loss on skeletal muscle
The importance of skeletal muscle mass is increasingly being recognised in the medical field.1 The crucial roles of skeletal muscle have come to the forefront of public attention due to data on the us...
www.thelancet.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Alison Hoens
NEW STUDY:
Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky:
Health 29%
Social 25%
Physical 23%
Life 23%
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840
Worth reading--lots of other insights!

Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Alison Hoens
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Even modest daily step counts are associated with health benefits.

7000 per day= sizeable risk reductions across most outcomes, compared with 2000 steps per day.

Even though risk continued to decrease beyond 7000 steps per day, it plateaued for some outcomes.🧪

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
Although 10 000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...
www.thelancet.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM