So now you’ve learnt how to read papers. ~1 million papers are published annually but even then you may not find what you are looking for when it comes to latest research. What are the latest projects people are working on? Is anyone working to answer a specific problem? Is this information available openly? Do you need to have written a paper to share and get credit for your work? Continue reading Week 6: Preprints and interim research products
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Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 2
This is part 2 of the lesson on scientific reproducibility. Links to other lessons are the end of this post. How can you trust the scientific information you read? Continue reading Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 2
Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 1
Happy New Year! This is the 5th lesson in a 7-lesson course and it is first being posted in 2019. We hope students continue to find it useful any time!
If you have been listenting to current science news, you might have heard the terms reproducibility and replication, particularly in the context of whether we should trust scientific results.
The video in this lesson is a very measured and truthful look at science reproducibility (Thanks TedEd! https://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-reproducibility-crisis-in-science-matt-anticole,CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Continue reading Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 1
