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Anti-abortion activists get two papers into Supreme Court arguments, despite obvious problems and them having been retracted