Illustration by Laurenne Boglio As regular readers know, this newsletter takes pains to highlight autism research tweets — but do tweets really help papers take flight? It’s tough to quantify the impact, beyond simple tallies of retweets and likes. A new paper this week attempts the calculation, linking social-media shares and news coverage with actual […]
Why listen to scientists and experts when you can choose the brain of a little boy who lives down the street. Ontarians have learned to have no expectations of Premier Doug Ford’s pandemic press conferences. But on June 2nd, the politician managed to surprise even those of us who thought we had seen it all, […]
