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Anti-abortion activists get two papers into Supreme Court arguments, despite obvious problems and them having been retracted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.
Confused and Unprepared REF29 backtracks on trade books, and TSK bumbles and fumbles a straightfoward issue
The UK Is Coming for Your IP Another OA proposal wants your IP without just compensation — this time in the UK. Resistance is quick and strong.
The Government Funding Lie The lie at the heart of the OA movement remains a lie — but it has been so oft-repeated, some think it's true
As Predicted, Laughingstock The wider AI world is catching on to how bad things have become in scientific publishing, with AI the key card into the mess.
Song: “Life During Wartime” A dystopian decade perhaps made the problems with technology more apparent
More OA Nonsense Down Under A short-timer's plan is illogical, and seems to play into the very hands she seeks to slap
Review: “Burn Book” A new book by tech's most well-known journalist is readable, interesting, and unflinching
Living in Another World Preprint advocates continue to be irrational, and don't seem to realize that authors have already changed the game on them
Friday Song: “Rock This Town” An artist revives rockabilly, then Big Band swing, with a great song connecting them.
Preprints, Puppets, and Press Releases More "science by press release," with news outlets playing right along
Three for Thursday A bad peer-reviewed study, OSTP has three months, and why the real world is more fun.