Sydney-based science writer and co-founder of @franklOpenSci. Former autism researcher. 700 millionth cousin to a mushroom.
Jul 31, 2019 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
My latest for @natureindex is about Living Systematic Reviews.
Come for the Zika virus research. Stay for the robots. natureindex.com/news-blog/livi…@NatureIndex A systematic review is where you define a protocol that says how you're going to survey the literature, decide what is relevant, and how you're going to synthesise the data.
It's slow and laborious. Reviews are often out of date before they're published.
Jun 14, 2019 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Remember that study claiming that gut bacteria from autistic kids cause "autism-like" behaviour in mice?
I had some fun with @f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h#dataviz and #opendata. It's pretty illuminating... medium.com/metascience/ca…
OK. So you're claiming that mice show "autism-like" behaviours. You'd better have strong evidence of social impairment, right?
