Song: “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”
A 1953 gem sung by a 10-year-old from Oklahoma remains a holiday delight
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MAHA and Science Platforms
An exposé on MAHA trademarks reveals a lot of ambitions in the science space
A Rough Year for STM Stocks
The OA bubble is deflating, brands are damaged, and stocks are down
Friday Song: “Consume”
One last song from The Warning this year — a banger from their concert film
This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
Pod: Scientific Publishing’s Double Bubble
With a shared “inevitability” narrative and utopian visions, both may pop soon
OpenEvidence Is Also AI Slop
JAMA joins NEJM on the AI Fever Train, and it’s another pileup of nonsense
Another Springer Nature AI Prob
Another book with fake citations — even as a reviews journal approacheth . . .
Recent AI Slop: A Compendium
It’s been a rough time for AI in scientific publishing — time to stop dreaming?
aiXiv — Nothing Is Right About It
Agents with human IDs generating fake papers, and PhD students running amok