Blogs and social media

I find that social media – in the right dosage – can be an important tool for scientists in keeping track of the state of the art. Here are some blogs I follow that I find particularly useful.

• Bits of DNA by Lior Pachter
• Natural Language Processing Blog by Hal Daumé III
• Updated Sporadically at Best by Jean Wang

If you’re on Twitter, I would recommend following (among many others):

• Arvind Narayanan
• Casey Greene
• Jen Golbeck
• nextgenseek
• Quaid Morris

Miscellany

Including tools I’ve helped build, datasets I’ve helped create, etc.

• WordBias.org and Hacking Bias in Word Choice: visualize gender bias in word choice in these two web apps.
• Cited by: interactively filter a given PubMed paper’s citations.