Health Hack Academy 2015 äger rum helgen 12-13 september på OpenLab i Stockholm, på temat Internet of Things for Health.
Jag hörde Karin Bojs (vars intressanta bok Min europeiska familj: de senaste 54 000 åren är ute nu) rekommendera en lista över tester för den som vill börja med DNA-släktforskning, hos Svenska sällskapet för genetisk genealogi.
Science Isn’t Broken, det är bara jävligt svårt. FiveThirtyEight om vetenskaplig metodik, "p-hacking" och vad man kan förvänta sig av vetenskapen, och att alla de problem som rapporterats om den senaste tiden (oreproducerbarhet, peer-review hacking, retractions, etc.) inte är den viktigaste frågan.
"Is science broken? I’ve spent many months asking dozens of scientists this question, and the answer I’ve found is a resounding no. Science isn’t broken, nor is it untrustworthy. It’s just more difficult than most of us realize. We can apply more scrutiny to study designs and require more careful statistics and analytic methods, but that’s only a partial solution. To make science more reliable, we need to adjust our expectations of it."
The Awl om credit-"skandalen" kring The Fat Jew och hur Instagram möjliggör det. Orättvist och sant.
"The Fat Jew and his ilk—Fuck Jerry, Beige Cardigan, Betches and other shitpic peddlers—have no doubt kept a lot of users coming back to Instagram, likely even a substantial portion of the three hundred million monthly active users that the site boasts. For years now, Instagram has served up sponsored posts to those users, bringing in revenue for itself and its parent company, Facebook, while taking little action in response to how users actually behave on its service. It believes that if it deprives users of certain tools, users will change their behavior to fit Instagram’s narrow view of how the service should work. It simply does not account for those that don’t. The Fat Jew might be hiding behind Instagram’s lack of functionality and profiting because of it, but he’s not the only one. Instagram is too."