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Review Bounties

Fixing incentives in peer review
publications
literate science
A funding model to replace article processing charges (APCs), and subscriptions which pays reviewers and incentivises diligence with a ‘bug bounty’.
Jun 24, 2023
Richard J. Acton

Podcast appearance on fixing academic publishing

rationalism
podcasts
literate science
I made an appearance on the bayesian conspiracy podcast to talk about fixing academic publishing.
May 17, 2023
Richard J. Acton

 

Showing our working

Transparency for trustworthy science
publications
literate science
We all remember being told to show our working in school, usually in maths 🧮. Why were we asked to do this? So that someone else can follow our reasoning, step-by-step, and…
Apr 3, 2023
Richard J. Acton

My new ebook ‘Data: Inception to Publication & Beyond’

publications
literate science
The focus is on creating a workflow for streamlined generation, analysis, & publication of FAIR research data with reproducible analyses both in theory and practice.
Jan 30, 2023
Richard J. Acton

FLOSS Exobrains Braindump

rationalism
FLOSS
Free/libre and Open Source ‘Exobrain’ tools for notes, to do, task management etc.
Jun 12, 2022
Richard J. Acton

Ageing & Immortality Special Episode

podcasts
A special episode of the Xenothesis podcast discussing Ageing & Immortality Michael Glinka
May 15, 2022
Richard J. Acton

Performant R - how to do things faster in R

R
My workshop on writing more performant R code
May 12, 2022
Richard J. Acton

Why multi-panel figures are terrible & we should stop using them.

literate science
My problems with multipanel figure and why I think they are an inefficent way of communicating scientific results, a problem for accessibility, and proposals for testing these ideas
Apr 2, 2022
Richard J. Acton

Why rationalists should care (more) about free software

rationalism
FLOSS
I post I wrote for lesswrong on the subject of free/libre software and why it matters
Jan 23, 2022
Richard J. Acton

 

My First First Author paper!

publications
The genomic loci of specific human tRNA genes exhibit ageing-related DNA hypermethylation
Oct 6, 2021
Richard J. Acton

 

PhD Thesis

publications
My PhD Thesis
Oct 6, 2021
Richard J. Acton

Xenothesis

books
podcasts
The Xenothesis Podcast, our podcast about Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy
Oct 6, 2021
Richard J. Acton

Podcast appearance on aging biology

rationalism
podcasts
I made an appearance on the bayesian conspiracy podcast to talk about aging biology.
Oct 6, 2021
Richard J. Acton

 

Cyberpunk Special Episode

podcasts
A special episode of the Xenothesis podcast discussing the Cyberpunk genre with Michael Glinka
Jan 3, 2021
Richard J. Acton

GATTACA Special Episode

podcasts
A special episode of the Xenothesis podcast discussing the 1997 film GATTACA with Michael Glinka
Jan 3, 2021
Richard J. Acton

 

Advanced Rmarkdown YAML headers

R
Rnotebooks are scientific notebooks for R, somewhat like jupyter for anyone coming from python
Apr 24, 2019
Richard J. Acton

An intuitive explanation of inferential distance

rationalism
Explaining the concept of inferential distance, the distance between different beliefs in units of logical steps
Nov 26, 2017
Richard J. Acton

 

Cognitive Bias Cards!

rationalism
Check out the Cognitive Bias Cards Repo for a deck of cards featuring 104 cognitive biases.
Jul 8, 2017
Richard J. Acton
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