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Why 52 is a round number

This is my 52nd post to this blog. It was prompted, like so many others, by a discussion on Twitter. In this case, the talk was about round numbers. My friend Schrokit was getting near 10,000 tweets...

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Other people fucking hate sexism in science, too

Last week, I wrote a >2700-word rant about sexism, both in my field of science, and society more generally. As I write this, it has been seen over 12000 times. By my standards, that’s quite a lot:...

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The UK Science Blog of the Year

In 10 days’ time, the Good Thinking Society will be awarding its first ever UK Science Blog of the Year award. At an event co-hosted by Soho Skeptics, they will award £1000 to the overall winner, and...

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More thoughts on the UK Science Blog of the Year

Yesterday I published a post about the UK Science Blog of the Year award, run by the Good Thinking Society. (The rest of this post won’t make much sense if you haven’t read that one.) I wrote about the...

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Real Comment Spam

The spam filters on WordPress are very good. At the time of writing, in just over a year of blogging, “Akismet” -as the filter is known- has marked 9132 comments as spam. Of those, only 1 was a “false...

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Ode to Search Terms

There really are some gems among spam comments sometimes. Take the following, from this morning: “I was well aware from the social phobia that was related with shoe lifts and just how they were looked...

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Do You Speak Science?

I’m very pleased to announce my new blog: Do You Speak Science? It’s hosted on the SciLogs network, which is run by Nature Publishing Group. I will be writing at least 1 post per week about languages,...

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