Amy Ninetto

Scientific Editor at @MDAndersonNews. Recovering anthropologist. She/her. 🇺🇦 Views are my own.

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

We have new guidance on AP Stylebook Online, recommending that writers avoid the shorthand former Soviet republic(s) for any of the group of 14 countries besides Russia that existed within the former Soviet Union, unless clearly relevant to the story.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

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We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome.

Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

"C" is for Citation.

[The Anthropology Department @anthropologydp]

Would you rather fight one Malinowski-sized yam or one hundred yam-sized Malinowskis?

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

New section: 5.1.12 Use of Artificial Intelligence and Language Models
Nonhuman artificial intelligence, language models, machine learning, or similar technologies cannot be listed as authors because these technologies do not qualify for authorship. Also https://t.co/9IJ4SWz4uo

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

Transparent peer review for all!
We will publish reviewer reports and author responses for all research articles submitted after November 1st
#OpenScience
https://t.co/9wOOv3U6y1

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Twitter told us all bookmarks have to be public now so here you go

[Amy Ninetto @AmyNinetto]

Really! We’re here to help, not judge. (But we’ll fix things if you want us to.)

[Cancer Cell @Cancer_Cell]

Interested in publishing your findings in @Cancer_Cell? Discuss your research with editor-in-chief Steve Mao at #AACR23 https://t.co/G8IQI2zOHT

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

"As scientists, we must push back against the misappropriation of biological terms by promoting precise language … acknowledging that people express these variables in ways that may not conform with a binary system of sex or gender." https://t.co/bklyuggLg7 #TransDayOfVisibility

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

Our list of retracted COVID-19 papers is up to 311. https://t.co/AXiBZbUNXN

[The Anthropology Department @anthropologydp]

Just went to Voodoo Doughnut and confronted employees about not knowing the difference between sympathetic and contagious magic.

Ugly scene, folks.

#SAA2023Portland

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

A new report from the National Academies of Science noted that race is a poor proxy for genetic diversity. https://t.co/jyLF0reSIq

[Amy Ninetto @AmyNinetto]

Tough one!

[Bryan A. Garner @BryanAGarner]

First piece in the March 13 New Yorker. In your view, is the “whomever” in the second sentence correct?
⁦@NewYorker⁩

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

Good question. Like similar compound terms (eg, P value, odds ratio) they do not take a hyphen even as a modifier.

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

Currently yes, still expanding/defining. We are working on updates to the inclusive language chapter including sex/gender and sexual orientation and use of terms will be considered.

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

Considering Color in Data Displays https://t.co/SvUdojsxP1

[Polska Akademia Nauk @PAN_akademia]

🇵🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸 „We should do everything to protect the science and higher education sector in #Ukraine from war-inflicted decline”.

An open letter by prof. @Marcia4Science (@theNASciences), prof. A. Zagorodny (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and prof. M. Konarzewski (PAS) 👇

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

The phrase “to put [or to place] a patient on a drug” is jargon and should be avoided. Medications are prescribed or patients are given them; therapeutic agents are started, administered, maintained, or discontinued.
So a disease progresses "during" or "despite" treatment.

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

Always happy to see tweets like this, and to have retraction alerts in @EndNoteNews powered by our database. https://t.co/JxKTWbshb3