Word Watch: “Transparency”

Overused and abused, we need to insist on clarity and precision in vocabulary

Pod: “What Is the Zuck Really Doing In Science?”

Most major preprint servers are for-profit, including those CZI LLC just grabbed

Krumholz Is Officer of openRxiv

A filing shows the EIC of JACC is also an officer of a CZI LLC preprint initiative

Are We Losing Our Minds?

A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

Editor Becomes a MAHA Darling

Two medRxiv preprints with its head as co-author are anti-vax fodder for FDA

This Week’s Texting Discoveries

We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch

Song: “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”

Written for “The Breakfast Club,” the song is now free to stand on its own

A Fake Paper in 20 Minutes

A commercial offering lets anyone make a fake science paper over lunch

Podcast: “Private Wealth NOT Public Health”

How Jim O’Neill has worked a decade to make science into profitable tech

Fishy LTEs at Elsevier

Editors get academic credit for correspondence written by others