PeerJ Adds to the Wheel It's Reinventing

PeerJ seems to be moving quickly along the learning curve of publishing

Preprints and Journalists Take Over

Once the newsmakers of science, expert systems are becoming afterthoughts

Friday Song: "My Immortal"

Amy Lee's voice propels a love song to the level of "modern classic"

Leadership Roles & Responsibilities

An social critique touches on our failures, and a journalist provides a real example

An Appetite for Destruction

A new JISC initiative seeks to destroy value and incentives while calling it "disruption"

Substack, Sick Time, and Digital Activists

A report in a newsletter leads to change, and a study of its effects in Health Affairs

Let's End the Brief Era of Scare -ing

Thoughtless injection of hype and emotionalism is a new and lazy writing style

PPP Loans and Vaccine Mandates

Are scholarly non-profits that took PPP loans mandating vaccination for their staff?

A Journalist and Two Preprints Mislead

Preprint authors, servers, and health journalists are dabbling in inflammatory angles

Avoiding Brand Blindness

Technologists seem to have a blind spot around branding and brand value