Professor Adam G. Dunn

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Sydney

Steven Strogatz’ prognostications for the year

Steven Strogatz’ prognostication for the coming year in mathematics includes the following sage advice: “We may have to program computers to explain their discoveries to us. Otherwise they will become more like oracles than scientists, handing down mysterious utterances to us mere mortals.” – From the NY Times

Pity we didn’t get to hear what Barabasi thought…

  • On the value of deplatforming, and seeing online misinformation as an opportunity to counter misinformed beliefs in front of a key audience
  • Do Twitter bots spread vaccine misinformation?
  • trial2rev: seeing the forest for the trees in the systematic review ecosystem
  • How articles from financially conflicted authors are amplified, why it matters, and how to fix it.
  • Thinking outside the cylinder: on the use of clinical trial registries in evidence synthesis communities
  • Differences in exposure to negative news media are associated with lower levels of HPV vaccine coverage