Bodner: Joseph Works for NVF
The president of the New Venture Fund confirms the head of SPARC is an NVF employee
Kent Anderson
NLM Denial Hints at SPARC Ties
The NLM seems a little too cozy with SPARC and the New Venture Fund
Friday Song: “A Face in the Crowd”
A song from a watershed year for his music still haunts
Three Thursday Thoughts
Has the OSTP dog caught the accountability car? Why do we now enshrine articles? And who knew?
OSTP’s Adopted Blinders
A fixation on paywalls blinds OSTP and the OA movement to real sources of inequity, and real challenges for science
Friday Song: “Smoke on the Water”
A classic song recorded in a panic, conveying a true story the band experienced firsthand
The List of PPP Forgiveness
Scholarly non-profits and for-profits took out PPP loans, and hundreds of millions were forgiven
Can Twitter Recover?
A whistleblower's damning revelations may have dire consequences for the platform
The CDC Missteps Into Preprints
The CDC pushes for more preprinting at a time that shows them to be out of step
Friday Song: “Blue Bayou”
Originally a Roy Orbison hit, Linda Ronstadt took the song to new heights