If you were an allergy researcher ...

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"How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop"
http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-fool-themselves-and-how-they-can-stop-1.18517?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.

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Tweeted by @AdamFrank4

"Battle between NSF and House science committee escalates: How did it get this bad?"
http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2014/10/battle-between-nsf-and-house-science-committee-escalates-how-did-it-get-bad

"If your ultimate goal is to cut funding for social and behavioral sciences ...I respect your right to try to make that case as Chairman. But please do not compromise the integrity of NSF's merit review system as part of this campaign."

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"Patient Owned Research Is Just Around The Corner"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/patient-owned-research-just-around-corner-lucien-engelen?trk=mp-reader-card

But now i think things will come together and will create a movement we coined "Patient Owned Research (POR), in a setting where patients will grant acces to researchers, by giving them the ability to subscribe to their data.

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Tweeted by @DionneLew

"The Best Way to Complain is to Make Things"
https://labs.ideo.com/2014/08/28/best-way-complain/?utm_content=bufferdbfe6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I set out to solve my problem

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Tweeted by @HeartSisters

"Guidance for BMJ patient reviewers"
http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-reviewers/guidance-patient-reviewers

If you're a patient living with disease, or a patient advocate acting on the behalf of someone or for a patient group with a medical condition, we'd like to invite you to take part in a unique initiative. The BMJ has committed to improve the patient centredness of its research, education, and analysis articles by asking patients to comment on them. We'd like you to volunteer to become a "patient reviewer."

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Tweeted by @HeartSisters

"First we had peer review – and now patient review!"
http://myheartsisters.org/2014/10/17/patient-review-british-medical-journal/

I was suddenly able to take a nice deep breath and remind myself that The BMJ already has real scientists and healthcare professionals to offer peer review input, so I needn't lose sleep over methodology minutiae. This first question reminded me as well that the particular focus of the paper I was reviewing did matter to me. In fact, I'd already written – from a patient's perspective – about the very same issues surrounding controversial cardiovascular risk calculators that were discussed in the paper up for review.

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Tweeted by @ePatientDave

"Amy Price: Patients doing research for themselves"
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/10/17/amy-price-patients-doing-research-for-themselves/

Should patients be "allowed" to do their own research?

Some feel that patients will be harmed through self-experimentation, that they do not understand the risks, and that they may become prey to junk science predators who sell devices that do not meet standards for accuracy and safety.

Can those without medical training contribute to health innovation?

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Tweeted by @subatomicdoc

"How to find the knowns and unknowns in any research"
http://theconversation.com/how-to-find-the-knowns-and-unknowns-in-any-research-26338?utm_content=buffer14ec4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Users can quickly master the technique to wade through claims and counter claims on any subject, discovering what's known and finding the gaps.

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Tweeted by @99u

"Why Experts Reject Creativity"
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-new-ideas-fail/381275/

The physicist Max Planck put it best: "Science advances one funeral at a time."

One place to watch the funeral march of science is America's peer-review process for academic research, which allocates $40 billion each year to new ideas in medicine, engineering, and technology.

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Tweeted by @DShaywitz

"Creating The Data-Inhaling Health Clinic Of The Future"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/10/18/creating-the-data-loving-health-clinic-of-the-future/

I can envision a data-inhaling "Health Clinic Of The Future," where all participants – doctors, patients, staff – would agree from the outset with a set of common principles, including in particular a shared belief in the value of data (including cost data), data that the clinic would aim to gather and utilize as often and as transparently as possible.

This clinic would ideally attract curious, inquisitive physicians

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Tweeted by @99u

"Learn the Rules & Then Break Them"
http://99u.com/workbook/33689/learn-the-rules-then-break-them

Dadich emphasizes that it's not about throwing out design rules and starting from scratch. You need to master the rules so you can effectively break them.

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Tweeted by @ElaineSchattner

"Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact"
http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e123/

Citations in peer-reviewed articles and the impact factor are generally accepted measures of scientific impact. Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, blogs or social bookmarking tools provide the possibility to construct innovative article-level or journal-level metrics to gauge impact and influence. However, the relationship of the these new metrics to traditional metrics such as citations is not known.

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Tweeted by @DrVes

Prior to me blogging and tweeting about the paper, it was downloaded twice. After, it immediately got 140 downloads buff.ly/1zj8qXh

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"The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research: Results of an Experiment"
http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/the-impact-of-social-media-on-the-dissemination-of-research-by-melissa-terras/?utm_content=buffer1f18a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Tweeted by @PCORI

"PCORnet: An Update on Our Blueprint for Transforming Health Research"
http://www.pcori.org/blog/pcornet-update-our-blueprint-transforming-health-research?utm_content=buffer676c9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The first phase of PCORnet is an 18-month initiative, which is just the blink of an eye in "research time." We are ambitious in our intention to lay the foundation for efficient, patient-centered clinical research as quickly as we can.

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Tweeted by @DrVes

"A tempting source of data, social media is uncharted ethical territory for medical research"
http://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2014/10/21/a-tempting-source-of-data-social-media-is-uncharted-ethical-territory-for-medical-research/?utm_content=buffer5738e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"This technology is like a tumor outgrowing its blood supply. It's growing so rapidly, policy cannot keep up," Farnan said. "It's so difficult for regulatory agencies and institutional review boards to grasp the potential downstream complications accessing social media data of patients. But I do think it's a discussion that needs to happen, because there are amazing and interesting things you can do with it."

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Tweeted by @holly_py

"On ten years and open access (part 2)"
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2014/10/23/on-ten-years-and-open-access-part-2/

If a researcher wishes their research to be read and cited as widely as possible, then open access is an important tool for this to occur.

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Tweeted by @phdcomics

Open Access Explained!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY