Preprints — It’s Going to Get Worse Dozens of documented scandals around preprints, and things are about to get a whole lot worse unless changes are made.
Sentiment — Comparisons Examining faculty/researchers, consultants, librarians, and editorial folks — and exploring why two groups diverge
Survey Results — Top Level We like gatekeepers and peer-review, don't trust AI, aren't very bullish on OA, and think preprint servers need work
Song: “I’ve Been Everywhere” Swapping toponyms makes for many versions of a song from the 1950s that's still being remade today.
The Insurrection’s Latest Moves The insurrection amps up — in many venues, with scholarly publishing's modeling others. And why gates and their keepers are to be respected.
Song: “Southern Accents” Dolly Parton pays tribute to her friend, and delivers a powerhouse performance in the process.
OA’s Seedy Side — and TMs Think that new OA publisher has nice offices? And are the bioRxiv and medRxiv brands trademarked?
Preprints & Investor Relations Another day, another commercial exploitation of porous preprint platforms that denigrate peer-review
Preprint Backlash Hits eLife Scientists call for the preprints "shortcut" to be closed, which means the eLife and Gates nonsense in particular
The Other Shoe Drops T&F gets Gates to fund yet another preprint server as an extension of that anti-peer-review policy shift
Friday Song: “The Living Years” We sometimes forget those we love, and sometimes forget about songs like this one.
A Big, Negative Trial An important negative trial is worth noting as it shows these kinds of studies are published when warranted
Are We Clear Now? If there was ever a moment when it became clear funders were never serious, that moment is now
Frictionless, Packaged Reality A world devoted to "artificial intimacy" and frictionless burlesques is unreal and unreliable — but also seductively comfy
UPDATE: Two Pals, an NSF Grant More evidence that a Program Director with ties to an NSF grantee was involved in the grant submission process
Gates to Roll Out “Clippy OA” Combining AI with OA via Clippy, open science can finally be fully realized
Supreme Retractions Anti-abortion activists get two papers into Supreme Court arguments, despite obvious problems and them having been retracted
Friday Song: “We Are the World” A night to remember, a song that sparked a new direction, and a documentary that brings them together
Fatal or Harmless? It Depends 100% fatal or 100% meaningless? Depends on which version of this preprint you read . . .
Friday Song: “Everlong” Written quickly during a sad Christmas, this became the Foo Fighter's signature song.