Interview with Rick Anderson

Libraries, OA analysis, music, and work-life balance, it's all on the table

Pay to Play In OpenEvidence

LLMs treat OA pay-to-play articles the same as any other, and that's a problem

Open Science Comes Up Empty

A “major” study reveals little to no benefit, but fails to examine the harms

Song: “Sign of the Times”

A former boy band member broke his solo career open with this heavy song

This Week’s Texted Discoveries

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

Pod: “Playing to the Consumer”

Rules and norms focused on the wrong incentives and customer can go awry

Lies from aiXiv and “Rachel So”

Explicitly transgressive and deceptive, this weird thing should be shut down

Can You Retract from an LLM?

Atomized, tokenized, and weighted, papers may not be addressable anymore

Song: “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”

A 1953 gem sung by a 10-year-old from Oklahoma remains a holiday delight