rogue scholar 🏴☠️
The Rogue Scholar is an interesting alternative to journals for small stuff more suited to a blog post but which stil warrants a doi to be findable/citable.
Here's some neat stuff I found before finishing my coffee
- Here's a summary of the authors' PNAS article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly", which identifies a few mechanisms enabling large-scale scientific fraud. After summarizing the mechanisms, they provide a game theoretic model for thinking about scientific fraud.
- "Understanding 20% of statistics will improve 80% of your inferences" (this is a play on the Pareto principle) purports to be about statistics but has a lot of snide remarks and funny memes about (psych) research.
- "Vibe code is legacy code" makes good points about why coding with AI/LLMs/Copilots makes you feel good now and will give you a code-hangover tomorrow.
- A description of citation tracking on Rogue Scholar itself which highlight a number of problems involved with tracking citations, a major one being that blog posts don't usually bother to include citations, but this might just be a chicken-an-egg problem: if services (like rogue scholar) make use of citations, they it will become common to blog something with citations to other stuff.
I signed up, and my RSS feed is here so I might eventually get this blog in there..