Let’s Implicate the Librarians, Too
A PhD student’s thesis gets pirated — and the reporters should have asked the librarians how they allowed it to happen
Kent Anderson
Friday Song: “What Do You Say?”
A snappy little bluegrass number by a mandolin prodigy rising to the top is captured via a green room session
Dimensions’ Access Politics
Word choice reveals Dimensions’ non-neutral stance about publishing models
The Preprint Stink May Stick Now
The foul odor of something “off” about preprints has increased consistently since a big push around biomedical preprinting in conjunction with the spread of Covid-19. Even as advocates attempt to Febreze away the pungent scent coming off the open airing of scientific dirty laundry, more and more stink seeps out
Friday Song: “Against the Wind”
A Grammy Award wasn't enough to make the writer stop worrying about the grammar of this song's most famous line
Houses of Straw and Sticks
Overselling weak building materials while disassembling the once-solid frame wasn't a great idea
Chasing a Bad Preprint
Our ability to protect the public sphere is negligible thanks to the techno-utopians and free information crowd
Friday Song: “White Horse”
A new song by Chris Stapleton features everything that makes this artist special
The Nanny Talks Labor & Strikes
An interview with the President of SAG-AFTRA shows how well Hollywood understands LLMs and generative AI, among other things
Netflix Plays eLife
Corporate media and an author star pay eLife to get a paper out to coincide with a film's release date