Pod: “Playing to the Consumer”
Rules and norms focused on the wrong incentives and customer can go awry
More issues
Lies from aiXiv and “Rachel So”
Explicitly transgressive and deceptive, this weird thing should be shut down
Can You Retract from an LLM?
Atomized, tokenized, and weighted, papers may not be addressable anymore
Song: “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”
A 1953 gem sung by a 10-year-old from Oklahoma remains a holiday delight
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