The Geyser

Friday Song: “Dance Macabre”

A glam, satanic band from Sweden is making some of the most popular rock music today.

Cureus, COPE, and PubMed

Despite citing COPE as an inspiration, Cureus isn't a member, and breaks its rules

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Cureus Is Curious, Indeed

Springer Nature acquires an OA medical journal with an odd approach to financing itself

Can We Recover Our Norms?

Our purpose is not to churn out papers, but something far more noble, a job society needs

They Come for the Libraries

With the new year come new rules constraining the independence of librarians

Friday Song: “Gravity”

A song about freedom, defiance, and purpose, sung by an amazing artist

Recalling a Favorite Column

Remembering the value of empathy by recalling a favorite column

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What Is a Preprint Now?

Monday Housekeeping

A few updates and tidbits to kick Monday off right

Song: “Someone Like You”

A classic that couldn't be improved after one of its first performances, despite multiple efforts

OA and Right-Wing Rhetoric

Right-wing politicians and OA advocates have more in common in their rhetoric and mindsets than you might think

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Equity or Uniformity?

Extremism in sheep's clothing is still extremism, and equity can squash freedoms

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Suffer the Children

Review: “The Revolutionary”

A great new biography of an oft-forgotten Founding Father

ChatGPT Says It’s Not an Author

ChatGPT may not be the problem — our tendency to assign consciousness to inanimate objects may be

Friday Song: “I Will Run To You”

Some songwriters generate so many great songs, some — like this one — get lost in the sands of time.

Flawed Data, Bad Assumptions

Again and again, preprint analyses fail to account for the amount of peer-review occurring before preprints are posted

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Can We Trust Authors?

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Science Becomes Bureaucracy

Efforts to enmesh scientists in more non-science tasks will only slow progress

Friday Song: “In the Air Tonight”

In December 2017, Phil Collins posted a Tweet suggesting that if you start playing his 1981 hit, “In the Air Tonight” at 11:56:40 on New Year’s Eve, the iconic drum break will commence right as midnight strikes and the new year starts. Ever since then, this bit

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Did ChatGPT Write That Article?

Abstracts and papers via ChatGPT? You may already be seeing them . . . and then what?

Using ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a new AI agent released late last year by OpenAI. It has been hyped by some as the next level of AI, possibly capable of passing the Turing Test someday. It has a distance to go if that’s the goal, because right now it’s insufferable. In

Holiday Leftovers

A platter of updates and ideas to get you started in the New Year

Friday Song: “Americans”

As we end 2022, let's move toward a brighter vision in which we all matter

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Preprint Studies’ Red Flags