Friday Song: “Kiss”
A minimalist masterpiece, Prince's 1986 hit still sounds fresh and fiesty
Kent Anderson
Is Eisen Out at eLife?
A string of despairing tweets indicates something has gone sideways at eLife
A Great Time for Products
OA has sidelined scholarly publishers from a golden era of product development and consumer revenues
The Damage Done
Wiley's stock isn't bouncing back, and analysts are projecting a prolonged problem
Of Libertarians and Atheists
From SVB to Wiley to preprints to meddling funders, we need to regulate power — its use and concentration
Friday Song: “The Last DJ”
With RadioGPT — an AI DJ bot — coming, have we seen the last DJ, as foretold in this 2002 song?
Wiley Eats Hindawi Crow
Wiley divulges problems with Hindawi's special issues programs, and shuts it down, causing its stock to plummet
Algorithms as Bureaucracy
A paper exploring how machine leaning algorithms impose new bureaucratic, market, and surveillance effects is worth a read
This Time, I Agree with PLOS
Exasperated at ethics problems, PLOS comes out with strong language that it might not actually abide by
Bold Boasting at eLife
Why the use of bold, meaningless intensifiers in its assessments of reviewed preprints?