Friday Song: "My Immortal"

Amy Lee's voice propels a love song to the level of "modern classic"

Leadership Roles & Responsibilities

An social critique touches on our failures, and a journalist provides a real example

An Appetite for Destruction

A new JISC initiative seeks to destroy value and incentives while calling it "disruption"

Substack, Sick Time, and Digital Activists

A report in a newsletter leads to change, and a study of its effects in Health Affairs

Let's End the Brief Era of Scare -ing

Thoughtless injection of hype and emotionalism is a new and lazy writing style

PPP Loans and Vaccine Mandates

Are scholarly non-profits that took PPP loans mandating vaccination for their staff?

A Journalist and Two Preprints Mislead

Preprint authors, servers, and health journalists are dabbling in inflammatory angles

Avoiding Brand Blindness

Technologists seem to have a blind spot around branding and brand value

Elsevier's OA Win — and Florida's Fail

Predictable consequences arrive, and — as always — the question is, "Now what?"

Friday Song: "Cult of Personality"

The hearings on the Capitol Insurrection bring to mind a groundbreaking '80s song