Several writing worth reading,
- “On the Erosion of ‘Passionate Scholarship’ ” http://oss.sagepub.com/content/34/9/ … about the development of a culture of productivity in social science
- “NSA misuse of mathematics: Secret formulas and backdoor cryptography” http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/… via @msgbi
- [Guinnessometrics] “W.S. Gosset and Some Neglected Concepts in Experimental Statistics” http://sites.roosevelt.edu/sziliak/files/…
- “How to probe public attitudes?” http://understandingsociety.blogspot.ca/2013/… via @markthoma
- [cliché] “Why Girls Love flowers” http://neurobrainstorm.com/2013…
- “Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before” http://wired.com/opinion/2013/09…
- “Mapping IPCC dynamics” http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/ipcc/ via @AymericPontier
- “Naps are better than caffeine when it comes to improving verbal memory, motor skills, and perceptual learning” http://sciencedirect.com/science/… via “The science behind power naps, and why they’re so damn good for you” http://io9.com/…
- “Seeking Lead Writers in Sports, Politics and Economics” http://fivethirtyeight.com/2013/09/…
- “Opportunity for arbitrage in so-called “forever” stamps, (hold their value regardless of changes in postage price)” http://qz.com/128329 …
- “You can learn as much about building a business from Breaking Bad as you can from Harvard Business School.” http://economist.com/news/business/…
- End of Dexter? http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0773262 (no spoiler just IMDb ratings), via @J_P_Boucher see
and end of Breaking Bad ? http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0903747 see
- “Social sciences need a collective voice” http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/…
- “The Teaching Penalty in Higher Education: Evidence from a Public Research University” http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/…
- “Dread of numbers is damaging students” http://tes.co.uk/article.aspx… “Young people frightened of data miss out in life” by @teshelen via @deagiles
- “Don’t be that dude: Handy tips for the male academic” http://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/… via @scicurious and @aatishb
- “Global warming: What the leading scientists say” http://independent.co.uk/environment… via @3wen
- “End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer…” http://nature.com/news/2011/… (in 2011)
- “Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career” http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/09/…
- “Working hours: Get a life” http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/… via @SylvainCF see e.g.
- “Nobel prize guessing game begins” http://blogs.nature.com/news/… see http://sciencewatch.com/nobel/… (in Economics)
- “Ten email commandments” http://timharford.com/2013/09/3180/ 1. Email is your servant, 2. Don’t bother filing your emails – archive them … etc.
- “Let’s give statistics the attention it deserves in biological research” http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/08/… via http://community.amstat.org/Blogs/BlogViewer… and @deagiles
- “Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?… via http://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/… and @boraz
- “Facebook Psychology: Popular Questions Answered by Research” http://apa.org/pubs/journals/…
- “From Tweet to Blog Post to Peer-Reviewed Article: How to be a Scholar Now” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences// … via @nowviskie and @clairebrooks
- “28 reasons why you should blog about your research” http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/13910 via @renaudjf
- “Trust me, I’m a professor!” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/absolutely-maybe/2013/…
- [geek²] “May the force be….” (via @9gag)
- “Quantitative and empirical demonstration of theMatthew effect in a study of career longevity” http://pnas.org/content/108/1/18.full.pdf
- “Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters” http://iadb.org/intal/… via @tylercowen
- “Exploring Expressions of Emotions in GitHub Commit Messages” http://geeksta.net/geeklog/…
- “Grades can be poor measure of college achievement” http://sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/ … (or http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/… if you don’t want to subscribe)
- “Among doom and gloom of the student debt crisis and skyrocketing tuitions, college has never been a better investment” http://priceonomics.com/is-college-worth-it/
- “An Introduction to Recursive Partitioning: Classification and Regression Trees,Bagging and Random Forests” http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…
- “Wind and rain belts to shift north as planet warms” http://phys.org/news/…
- “Prediction market accuracy in the long run” http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/…
- “Who wants to be a millionaire?” http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/…
- “Comparative Benchmarking of European and US Research Collaboration and Researcher Mobility.” http://info.scival.com/UserFiles…
- “Figures are rounded” (good to know) via http://wtfviz.net/ see
avec plusieurs articles en français,
- “De la mauvaise utilisation des cerveaux en France” http://rachelgliese.wordpress.com/2013… a propos de http://orientation.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/…
- “Tentatives de séduction en milieu urbain” http://payetashnek.tumblr.com/ par @PayeTaShnek, via @LebelAudrey et http://google.com/hostednews/afp/article/…
- via @NGhoussoub “Les maths ont démâté” http://enseigner.blog.lemonde.fr/…
- “Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum” http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/… par @nb58 sur le retour du religieux
- “Google, une certaine idéologie du progrès” https://google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source= … via http://lemonde.fr/economie/article/… (Le Monde, une certaine idéologie de l’accès libre)
- “Y a-t-il trop d’étudiants à l’université?” http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/gerard-belanger/…
- “Interdiction de photographier dans les musées” http://partipirate.org/spip.php?article389
Did I miss something?