Interesting Links for 10-09-2022

[andrewducker]

1. GrieveWatch - monitoring the Totally Normal Grieving Process, here on Normal Island

(tags:grief uk marketing queen death viaLizzieCassMaran )

2. Russians bomb Ukrainian positions near Kharkiv with white phosphorus

(tags:OhForFucksSake WarCrimes Ukraine Russia war video viaPatrickHadfield )

3. Dealers Are Giving Discounts on Cocaine and Ketamine in Honour of the Queen

(tags:drugs Queen weird )

4. Massive status bias in peer review

(tags:status bias research peer-review )

5. Time lapse of Ukrainian advances over the last three days

(tags:Ukraine Russia war GoodNews )

6. Russian State Media Admits Vladimir Putin's Worst Case Scenario in Ukraine War Is Coming True

(tags:Russia Ukraine GoodNews war )

7. Researchers Find Spaceflight May Be Associated With DNA Mutations and Increased Risk of Developing Heart Disease and Cancer

(tags:mutation space astronauts cancer )

Comments

[cmcmck]

1.

I do wonder why I should be grieving for someone not of my family who I didn't know and with whom I had absolutely zero in common but what would I know? I'm a republican.

I found grieving my own, estranged parents hard enough work!

[bens_dad]

4. When I was reviewing journal papers in the 1990s I never saw any of the authors names, affiliations or status (nor was I paid). I assumed that this particular problem of bias in peer review had been solved long ago.

From the abstract it appears that this paper is confirming that the problem still exists a generation later.

I wonder what topic and subject allowed the editors to find over three thousand experts with the experience to comment on the article.

[cmcmck]

I still do peer review stuff for various historical journals and the problem of bias very much still exists, sadly.