OA and Right-Wing Rhetoric

Right-wing politicians and OA advocates have more in common in their rhetoric and mindsets than you might think

Equity or Uniformity?

Extremism in sheep's clothing is still extremism, and equity can squash freedoms

Suffer the Children

Technologies intruding into the lives of kids is causing grief and wasting time

Review: “The Revolutionary”

A great new biography of an oft-forgotten Founding Father

ChatGPT Says It’s Not an Author

ChatGPT may not be the problem — our tendency to assign consciousness to inanimate objects may be

Friday Song: “I Will Run To You”

Some songwriters generate so many great songs, some — like this one — get lost in the sands of time.

Flawed Data, Bad Assumptions

Again and again, preprint analyses fail to account for the amount of peer-review occurring before preprints are posted

Can We Trust Authors?

With ChatGPT now an author on a scientific paper, does our level of trust go up? Or down?

Science Becomes Bureaucracy

Efforts to enmesh scientists in more non-science tasks will only slow progress

Friday Song: “In the Air Tonight”

In December 2017, Phil Collins posted a Tweet suggesting that if you start playing his 1981 hit, “In the Air Tonight” at 11:56:40 on New Year’s Eve, the iconic drum break will commence right as midnight strikes and the new year starts. Ever since then, this bit