Song: “Southern Accents”
Dolly Parton pays tribute to her friend, and delivers a powerhouse performance in the process.
Kent Anderson
OA’s Seedy Side — and TMs
Think that new OA publisher has nice offices? And are the bioRxiv and medRxiv brands trademarked?
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