Friday Song: “Everlong” Written quickly during a sad Christmas, this became the Foo Fighter's signature song.
Confused and Unprepared REF29 backtracks on trade books, and TSK bumbles and fumbles a straightfoward issue
The UK Is Coming for Your IP Another OA proposal wants your IP without just compensation — this time in the UK. Resistance is quick and strong.
The Government Funding Lie The lie at the heart of the OA movement remains a lie — but it has been so oft-repeated, some think it's true
As Predicted, Laughingstock The wider AI world is catching on to how bad things have become in scientific publishing, with AI the key card into the mess.
Song: “Life During Wartime” A dystopian decade perhaps made the problems with technology more apparent
More OA Nonsense Down Under A short-timer's plan is illogical, and seems to play into the very hands she seeks to slap
Review: “Burn Book” A new book by tech's most well-known journalist is readable, interesting, and unflinching
Living in Another World Preprint advocates continue to be irrational, and don't seem to realize that authors have already changed the game on them
Friday Song: “Rock This Town” An artist revives rockabilly, then Big Band swing, with a great song connecting them.
Preprints, Puppets, and Press Releases More "science by press release," with news outlets playing right along
Three for Thursday A bad peer-reviewed study, OSTP has three months, and why the real world is more fun.
Publishers and Social Insecurity Another public access policy seeks to violate Constitutional and legal protections, while LLMs present existential threats of their own
Friday Song: “Freeze Frame” A week with a romantic interest told through film metaphors — and another massive hit for a Boston-based band
OA Advocates and “Pure Drivel” When a comedian's parody makes more sense than the parody OA advocates have created.
Friday Song: “Big Balls” A retracted paper with a racy AI illustration takes us down a musical alley, where we meet Chuck Berry, AC/DC, the Foo Fighters, and Jack Black
Three for Thursday An author stumbles carrying water for academic aloofness, writers warn of techno-authoritarianism, and ChatGPT loses its s**t.
Laughingstock, Sad Stock Thanks to "ratatestes," scientific publishing has become a laughingstock — while Wiley's stock continues to weep value
Google Scholar’s Fake Citations Seeding Google Scholar with fake authors and citations proves not only easy, but profitable
Are OA Politics Anti-Science? OA politics — and the model that results — may work against science benefiting society