Einstein, Preprints, & the Press Einstein cut off a collaborator for releasing information early to the press
Friday Song: “It’s My Life” Bon Jovi delivers joy and rebellion in a minor key, with talk box and references aplenty.
A Pseudoscience Pseudo-Preprint PsyRxiv fails to screen out the most basic qualification for a preprint.
Paid-members only “Fair” Pricing Is a Euphemism cOAlition S spends more to get a lousy Excel spreadsheet and euphemisms concealing an elitist program of top-down uniformity
Paid-members only Octopus Is Ridiculous Spending £650,000 of taxpayer funds to generate 3 research results? Misleading users about authorship? Disabling scraping and copy/paste? Yes, Octopus is ridiculous.
Friday Song: “Dear Insecurity” A haunting song first heard live in one of the greatest concert venues on Earth? Yes, please!
Paid-members only cOAlition S Keeps Spending With rampant spending increases, cOAlition S still believes it can lecture the world on what publishing costs
Ignorance of Nature Isn't Evidence Invoking brands to argue they don't matter is nonsensical, and remaining ignorant of evidence is even worse
Paid-members only Self-citation at MDPI and Frontiers Are MDPI and Frontiers using "special issues" to load citations into their portfolios?
Friday Song: “Who’s Crying Now” A band at its peak, and amazing vocalist in prime form, great musicians, and a great love song
Members only You Either Laugh or You Cry A familiar name signs the new Elsevier agreement with Projekt DEAL, and a scientist self-owns in a concerning way
Paid-members only Evidence Hints Cochrane May Fail After years of deterioration, Cochrane embraces OA — and puts most of its remaining revenue at risk
Smits Weeps as Plan S Fades An empty suit sees his plan crumble over time, so tries to trick people into staying the course
Friday Song: “Take Me Home, Country Roads” Another song that almost didn't happen turns into one everyone has to sing to the end once it starts
Paid-members only The “Taking” Issue Heats Up A top court finds that the deposition requirement for copyrighted works represents an unconstitutional "taking"
Friday Song: “Subdivisions” A rooftop cover of a timeless Rush synth powerhouse gives the song an entirely different feel
Is ChatGPT All But Dead? Courts, users, and authors have wised up fast, while the LLMs themselves continue to deteriorate
Paid-members only Let’s Have Some Irreverence The political environment of access debates adds to the damage done to freedom, and irreverence may be just the tool we need
“The Song of the Volga Boatmen” A Russian folk song, a genre created to support a dance coming out of Harlem, and a timeless classic
AI Begins to Pollute the Internet An expert in cognitive science has been documenting the drek coming online from LLMs — and, hoo boy!
Paid-members only #paywall Trigger warnings don't work, and make us weak — so why do we have a trigger warning for a business model?
Paid-members only Let’s Implicate the Librarians, Too A PhD student’s thesis gets pirated — and the reporters should have asked the librarians how they allowed it to happen
Friday Song: “What Do You Say?” A snappy little bluegrass number by a mandolin prodigy rising to the top is captured via a green room session
