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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

Elsevier's OA Win — and Florida's Fail

Predictable consequences arrive, and — as always — the question is, "Now what?"

Friday Song: "Cult of Personality"

The hearings on the Capitol Insurrection bring to mind a groundbreaking '80s song

Moving Southeast, Toward Lockdown

Giving up authority and rigor created room for confusion — and we all pay the price

Three Wishes for the Future

If I could change a few things about the scholarly Internet, these might be on the list

Friday Song: "Boogie Blues Etude"

Oscar Peterson's classic 1974 jazz piano solo still stuns in the mastery on display

I Have Some Questions

What is "the literature" now? Do we have the backbone to draw lines anymore?

What’s Our Role Now?

Tribalism, ignorance, and fragmentation are everywhere — what’s our response?