Friday Song: "Hooked on a Feeling"
A family crushes school duty with a daily musical task, and rocks a classic
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The Accepted Tier of Second-class
Calling second-class workers "essential" doesn't erase the differences
Papers ⇢ Preprints ⇢ Press Releases
Science-by-press-release has arrived because peer review has been eroded
Price Transparency ⇢ Higher Prices
Complex and psychological, transparency dynamics usually cause prices to rise
Monday Mix: Five Things to Think About
Missing papers. Manipulated data. The weak tea of "digital first." It's Monday!
The Strange Tale of Private Snafu
Created to laugh away chaos and prevent mistakes, he might hold lessons for today
Two Weak Flexes from Patron Projects
A patron's journal makes a mess of it, and a preprint review initiative is full of holes
Interview: Mark Carden, R2R Conference
How a growing conference came to be, dodged Covid-19, and sees the future
The Age of the Squeaky Wheels
Efforts to undermine referees reveal novel forms of elitism and censorship
Top Subscriber Posts from April
Some of what you might have missed last month on "The Geyser"