The Geyser

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Pessimism and Equity Language

Covering up real problems with euphemisms entrenches hopelessness

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Revisionism and Self-Sabotage

Broad Dissent at eLife

eLife's travails are real, their EIC is a loose cannon, and problems have burst into view

Friday Song: “Kiss”

A minimalist masterpiece, Prince's 1986 hit still sounds fresh and fiesty

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Is Eisen Out at eLife?

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A Great Time for Products

OA has sidelined scholarly publishers from a golden era of product development and consumer revenues

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The Damage Done

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Of Libertarians and Atheists

Friday Song: “The Last DJ”

With RadioGPT — an AI DJ bot — coming, have we seen the last DJ, as foretold in this 2002 song?

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Wiley Eats Hindawi Crow

Wiley divulges problems with Hindawi's special issues programs, and shuts it down, causing its stock to plummet

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Algorithms as Bureaucracy

A paper exploring how machine leaning algorithms impose new bureaucratic, market, and surveillance effects is worth a read

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This Time, I Agree with PLOS

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Bold Boasting at eLife

Why the use of bold, meaningless intensifiers in its assessments of reviewed preprints?

Song: “Mary On a Cross”

Another song from a surprisingly popular band — and a bonus feature about missing key changes in modern music

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Service Strife and Table Stakes

From Twitter to Facebook to Springer Nature, weak service offerings reveal a lack of customer alignment

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The Biggest Opportunity

Review: “How to Stand Up to a Dictator”

An excellent book is a history, biography, and warning — about power, lies, and authoritarianism

Friday Song: “So What”

A #1 hit, a singer who flies, and a risque tale of a relationship hitting the rocks — what's not to like?

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arXiv’s Budget Doesn’t Square

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The “Gaming of Citations” Paper

Leaps of logic ignore more helpful facts and concepts that may guide us toward improvements

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Vowel Play

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A Journal Encourages ChatGPT

Friday Song: “Lose Yourself”

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, has a distinctive rap voice. Known for breaking barriers around white rappers, Eminem has had the top selling album in the world twice — in 2002 (The Eminem Show) and 2009 (Recovery). He was the best-selling artist of the 2000s, Billboard’s artist

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Always In Pursuit of Attention

The article economy is damaging enough, but when combined with the attention economy, our priorities really change

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Are We No Longer Serious?

Cureus' problems continue, and a Nature News article sells self-loathing