Pump-and-Dump Preprinting

Another bad comparison of preprints and papers also seeks crypto profits?

Friday Song: “Cherry Bomb”

Fifty years after the US bicentennial, “Cherry Bomb” still rocks and shocks

This Week’s Texted Discoveries

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

Pod: “Book Time Approacheth”

We’re gearing up for a month of book promotion, and things are getting exciting

A $900,000 Pickle Jar

“The Medical Evidence Project” has produced two reports in more than a year

Open Science Drowns Science

Open data and OA publishing have proven a combination toxic to the truth

Song: “The Köln Concert — IIc”

Keith Jarrett’s arresting improvisations on a worn out piano became legendary

This Week’s Texted Discoveries

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

Should We License Publishers?

We once had the protection of a business model, but with that gone . . .