Who Is Driving the Science Bus?

A scientist seeks to conceal government-funded results, and ends up doing more damage

Two for Tuesday

Clearing the docket with two brief entries

Is This a Problem or a Grift?

A new way to identify "bad" papers seems to argue against its need to exist

Song: “Misery Business”

A song about bullies in high school gets briefly bullied online

eLife Is Put on a Ventilator

eLife indexing is paused at Clarivate — for good reasons

OA and a Trained Imagination

Open Access Week is having a "sad" because advocates had inadequately trained imaginations from the start

Plan S: It’s Not Going Great

A new report has its own limitations, but even with those, Plan S doesn't seem to be working

Friday Song: “Let It Rock”

Chuck Berry is the fount of rock, as this week's song reminds us

Child Labor, Scrip, and Tech

The age of digital shamelessness might be coming to an end as people realize its problems

Calculators Beat LLMs at Math

Skeptics keep revealing how limited AI and LLM systems are at even some simple tasks