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cmonforton | October 20, 2011Tucked away on federal OSHA's website is a list of 163 employers with the dishonorable label "severe violator." The designation comes from an enforcement program launched in April 2010 to identify"recalcitrant employers who endanger workers by demonstrating indifference to their responsibilities under the law."
The label is not easy to get. In any given year, less than 1% of U.S. worksites are subject to an OSHA inspection, and few violations (only about 4%) are classified as "willful," "repeat," or "failure-to-abate" ----one of the necessary criteria for the severe violator designation…
bioephemera | March 29, 2009Continuing the current discussion of the questionable quality of popular science journalism, British researcher Simon Baron-Cohen weighs in at the New Scientist with his personal experiences of misrepresented research. Baron-Cohen complains that earlier this year, several articles on his work linking prenatal testosterone levels to autistic traits, including coverage in the Guardian, were titled and subtitled misleadingly:
It has left me wondering: who are the headline writers? Articles and columns in newspapers are bylined so there is some accountability when they get things wrong. In this…
pontiff | February 25, 2009Zotero, a Firefox extension for managing research sources, has announced the release of Zotero 1.5 beta. I've heard good things from those who use Zotero. This major update adds some nifty synchronizing and automatic backup. The next step after this for Zotero, I believe, is adding sharing capabilities.
By the way does anyone know what happened to arXiv on you harddrive? It's not been updated in over a year, which is a shame. Personally I find the arXiv's lack of publicity accessible methods for obtaining the full text kind of a bummer. There is so much fun you could have given the…
grrlscientist | December 21, 2007tags: citation, book reviews
Wow, one of my book reviews was cited on the authors' webpage. It's nice to see that my writing is appreciated outside of the blogosphere, even if it is only a book review. I never would have thought that anything I wrote would be cited alongside Nature, Neuron, New Scientist, Psychology Today and the Washington Post.