Kent Anderson

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

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Dimensions’ Access Politics

Word choice reveals Dimensions’ non-neutral stance about publishing models

The Preprint Stink May Stick Now

The foul odor of something “off” about preprints has increased consistently since a big push around biomedical preprinting in conjunction with the spread of Covid-19. Even as advocates attempt to Febreze away the pungent scent coming off the open airing of scientific dirty laundry, more and more stink seeps out

Friday Song: “Against the Wind”

A Grammy Award wasn't enough to make the writer stop worrying about the grammar of this song's most famous line

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Houses of Straw and Sticks

Chasing a Bad Preprint

Our ability to protect the public sphere is negligible thanks to the techno-utopians and free information crowd

Friday Song: “White Horse”

A new song by Chris Stapleton features everything that makes this artist special

The Nanny Talks Labor & Strikes

An interview with the President of SAG-AFTRA shows how well Hollywood understands LLMs and generative AI, among other things

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Netflix Plays eLife

Corporate media and an author star pay eLife to get a paper out to coincide with a film's release date

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Interview: Adam Day — Clear Skies and the Papermill Alarm

Friday Song: “Here Without You”

In 2006, JCPenney sponsored a concert called “JCPenney Jam: The Concert for America’s Kids.” Featuring a range of artists — Jon Bon Jovi, Andrea Bocelli — the concert didn’t make much of an impression overall. However, one performance has remained a draw — 3 Doors Down performing their 2003 hit “Here

On Community and OSTP

As generations evolve, will we have to hold onto community? And the Nelson memo faces bigger challenges than a sniper in a budget bill

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Monday Thoughts

Governance problems in the face of OA threats, another preprint bomb at The Lancet, why the writers and actors are ahead of the curve, and the PLOS Union is official.

Friday Song: “You’re the Voice”

Known as Australia's unofficial national anthem, it's a minor miracle this song came together

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NIST Knows It’s a “Taking”

The draft NIST public access policy appears to carefully consider copyright, the 5th Amendment, and other legal complexities

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Some Resignations Make Sense

Another possible mass resignation at an Elsevier journal — but this time, the reasons seem right

Song: “Always on My Mind”

Made famous at least twice, the song continues to pack a punch — thanks to the Highwaywomen

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What Will Wiley Do Now?

Two Items for Monday

We've overinvested in OA, and using AI in peer review violated confidentiality

Friday Song: “Walkin’ Blues”

A classic blues piece from 1930, a superstar in the corner of a BBQ restaurant in Massachusetts — and magic!

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cOAlition S Admits Defeat

cOAlition S raises the white flag, acknowledging the APC model doesn't work — but it's too late thanks to the dilettantes

LLMs’ Risks Begin to Manifest

James Vincent on the Verge has been documenting the amount of change LLMs are driving on the existing public Internet, providing a host of useful links in the process: Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the

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OA’s Growing Blindspot

Friday Song: “Pumped Up Kicks”

A jingles writer pens a viral hit, and starts an enduring band — while also igniting controversies

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cOAlition S: Who Really Failed?