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Anti-abortion activists get two papers into Supreme Court arguments, despite obvious problems and them having been retracted

Friday Song: “We Are the World”

A night to remember, a song that sparked a new direction, and a documentary that brings them together

Crowdsourced Review — DOA

The early death of peer-review.io, and lessons learned