Did OE Just Admit Defeat?

And that they’re taking an additional path to extraction and exploitation?

Bespoke Preprint Servers Fade

Cornell pushes arXiv out of the nest to fight openRxiv’s weaklings for food

PMC and a Withdrawn Preprint

Nothing means anything in the libertine journals world we’ve enabled

Song: “How Soon Is Now?”

A song about shyness became the Smiths most enduring — thanks to tremolo?

“Not Great Science”

The EIC of the JAMA Network elaborates on a bad paper, adding fuel to the fire

Got Glyphosate Toxicity?

Not likely, but OpenEvidence and others have some underpants to sell you

Review: “The Great Shadow”

A history of sickness proves enlightening and feels retro-normal these days

Song: “Keep a Little Soul”

A long-lost Petty treasure, it is a good reminder for these days of ours

This Week’s Texted Discoveries

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