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DelocalizedDanny Mar 11, 2025

Research security at it's best: Has your research potential for dual use, check the list "here".

"here" looks like a link in the pdf...but there is no actual clickable link. That is definitely the way to make your knowledge safe from misuse.

#JumpingThroughhoops #CompMaterSci

Dan Leech Jan 25, 2024

Framework:

- You cannot use final

Also:

- You must add an interface to this class

Also:

- Use a mock of this interface when testing.

And:

- You can't create another runtime implementation of that class.

Then:

- Profit???

#jumpingthroughhoops

sooticasdream Jan 20, 2023

Oh jeez I've started it.....I've started my BACP accreditation application.

Its like being back at uni again...ergh!

#counselling #TheNextStep #JumpingThroughHoops #SmallBusiness

Darrin L Rogers Jan 19, 2023

For my #sabbatical application the dean asked details about which datasets I have created, that I might be analyzing...

*cracks knuckles*

Currently at about 17 nice, happy datasets (N from 65 to 2,000, average about N=500).

Damn, I've been busy the past 20 years.

#research #data #JumpingThroughHoops

Miljöpartiet De Gröna I Ulricehamn Jan 12, 2022

#Åretsord 2022
#Agnotologi

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here's my #WordOfTheYear.

and, yes, not just #wordoftheday, or #wordoftheweek, or #wordofthemonth.
this word's my #2022 word.

Agnotology

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotolo…
#agnotology here follows a handful of first lines from the definition blurbs from this websearch: duckduckgo.com/?q=agnotology+d… :The study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.

Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data

Agnotology is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.

Agnotology (n.) the study of culturally-propagated ignorance or doubt in provable fact

Agnotology is a branch of science which looks at the ways in which doubt or ignorance about certain subjects is created. A very good example of how this happens is the publication of scientific studies that rely on data that is inaccurate or misleading. etymologically, my guess is the gno in there's like gnosis, like knowledge n learning. and the A before it, denoting an absence thereof, and the ology, being the study thereof.

and, i'll quote these two middle paragraphs from the simple english wiki page too, as i think they're excellent at highlighting what it is, and why it's important (not to mention the lesson from it to be applied to contemporary matters...) simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agno… ...

The neologism was coined by Robert N. Proctor,[1][2] a Stanford University professor specializing in the history of science and technology.[3] Proctor cites the tobacco industry's conspiracy to manufacture doubt about the cancer risks of tobacco use as a very good example of how this can be done. Under the banner of science, the industry produced research about everything except tobacco hazards to exploit public uncertainty.[4]

The way in which media attention works can be exploited to produce ignorance. Other factors that influence it are that corporations or governments do not reveal certain facts. At times, they force these facts to be removed if they have been revealed. The methods they use include censorship, destroying documents, putting the weight of certain facts differently, or being inattentive or forgetful.

#ignorance

#agnotology