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

Did ChatGPT Write That Article?

Abstracts and papers via ChatGPT? You may already be seeing them . . . and then what?

Using ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a new AI agent released late last year by OpenAI. It has been hyped by some as the next level of AI, possibly capable of passing the Turing Test someday. It has a distance to go if that’s the goal, because right now it’s insufferable. In

Holiday Leftovers

A platter of updates and ideas to get you started in the New Year

Friday Song: “Americans”

As we end 2022, let's move toward a brighter vision in which we all matter

Preprint Studies’ Red Flags

Studies of preprints are routinely tendentious and flawed, and there are common red flags

Stories of the Year

A few stories informed 2022, and are worthy of review — including one that hints at a more accountable 2023