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Science for Sale – Commercialization of Scientific Innovations & Technology

There is secret to any trade, including science. To thrive in this highly competitive environment and capitalistic society, we, as scientists, feel compelled to keep our trade secrets. It has been normalized to intrinsically think that we have to protect and possess our knowledge and discoveries all to ourselves.

Posted by queerioushazel

6 June, 2023

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Data not shown – Scientific publishing is broken

Experiment X “failed”. It “didn’t work”, therefore (data not shown). Why is it culturally accepted to hide our negative data? How has it been normalized that neglecting negative results is good practice? What is it that led us to cherry-pick our data?

Posted by queerioushazel

5 March, 2023

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Creative destruction of scientific funding – a DeSci approach

The concept of money can be very complex. To some, it’s just means of commerce, or an association with social status and identities, or simply how we live and survive in this world. To me, most of the time, I see my dollars as voting rights.

Posted by queerioushazel

27 February, 2023

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Decentralized Science – should Science be crypto-fied?

The sharing economy and crowdsourcing has already penetrated our real world, say Uber, Airbnb, GoFundMe, etc. Sharing properties such as cars, houses, cash may have been normalized in our modern society. How about sharing responsibilities, governance, and other assets such as intellectual property (IP) rights and even scientific knowledge?

Posted by queerioushazel

13 February, 2023

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Infodemic – Scientific misinformation in this digital world

Is there a piece of scientific information that you just learnt on TikTok? YouTube videos? Twitter threads? Or a podcast episode?

Posted by queerioushazel

11 November, 2022

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Science Communication

So you have decided to engage in science communication. Great! But what’s next? My suggestion: find an initiative you like and get a ride.

Posted by natalievonderlehr

11 March, 2022

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A huge 18 hexagonal mirrors containing telescope is about to be launched on Christmas Eve

The largest telescope in human history, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is planned to be launched on Christmas Eve this year and is said to show the humanity the things […]

Posted by kristinakarale

18 December, 2021

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Source: Placing children and adolescents at the centre of the Sustainable Development Goals will deliver for current and future generations https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1670015

Children are the centre of Christmas: Can we not make them the centre of the SDG agenda, too?

Today is 17th of December, and this blog means to relate to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but how link the SDG-Agenda 2030 with Christmas? Christmas commemorates the birth […]

Posted by Y.Vladimir Pabón-Martínez

17 December, 2021

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5 Chemicals That Make You Feel Like Christmas Is Here

The sense of smell is inevitably linked to memory, mood and emotion. And Christmas smells like many things: oranges, conifer, cloves, cinnamon, mulled vine. You name it! The archetypical Christmas […]

Posted by kristinakarale

5 December, 2021

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DNA replication in a hundred words

The most beautiful experiment in biology.

Posted by Kelvin Kwok

Popular science

22 March, 2021

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Classics in biology

In this new snippet series, I am going to talk classics. Classics in biology.

Posted by Kelvin Kwok

Popular science

12 March, 2021

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Science for Sale – Commercialization of Scientific Innovations & Technology

Data not shown – Scientific publishing is broken

Creative destruction of scientific funding – a DeSci approach

Decentralized Science – should Science be crypto-fied?

Infodemic – Scientific misinformation in this digital world

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Science Communication

A huge 18 hexagonal mirrors containing telescope is about to be launched on Christmas Eve

Children are the centre of Christmas: Can we not make them the centre of the SDG agenda, too?

5 Chemicals That Make You Feel Like Christmas Is Here

DNA replication in a hundred words

Classics in biology

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Science for Sale – Commercialization of Scientific Innovations & Technology

Data not shown – Scientific publishing is broken

Creative destruction of scientific funding – a DeSci approach

Decentralized Science – should Science be crypto-fied?

Infodemic – Scientific misinformation in this digital world

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Science Communication

A huge 18 hexagonal mirrors containing telescope is about to be launched on Christmas Eve

Children are the centre of Christmas: Can we not make them the centre of the SDG agenda, too?

5 Chemicals That Make You Feel Like Christmas Is Here

DNA replication in a hundred words

Classics in biology

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