Song: “Primadonna Like Me”

Looking as if Queen and Aerosmith had a child who was then raised by the Rolling Stones and Prince, The Struts are top-shelf performers who have only sporadically made inroads on the US charts with songs like “Body Talks.” Nevertheless, they have a large and growing fan base that covers

Charleston Talk — Community

Journals are more than research, and trusted intermediaries are necessary for a marketplace of ideas

Bad Data Stewardship Update

The two preprint studies both concealed their underlying data, making replication or secondary analysis difficult or impossible

The Inequities and Risks of Free

"Free" sounds equitable, but in the information space, it creates at least two major inequities

Friday Song: “Operator”

A 1972 classic, written by an artists whose potential was cut short far too soon.

Results — Introverts/Extroverts

We're not a very extroverted group overall, introverts have to force it, and extroverts get more rewards

Two Bizarre Preprint Studies

Sure to be touted by believers, the studies are inadequate, overblown, and the authors won't reveal their data

The OSTP Memo Gets Grilled

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee comes down on the OSTP's approach and process

eLife Hits Rock Bottom

eLife's new approach may take it out of the realm of journals, and clearly caters to author self-interest

Survey — Introvert/Extrovert

Are you introverted or extroverted? A survey to explore this aspect a bit.