30 September 2026
“We will never let anyone tell us what to do again”
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I’ve long thought that part of the anger of the right wing over the handling of the covid pandemic was the realization that, “Someone else c...
29 July 2026
Undeserved
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Anthony Fauci is a hero and didn’t deserve the treatment he got in a congressional hearing today.
11 June 2026
Frontiers bypasses editors for algorithms: Losing the human touch in journals
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Over the years, I’ve been following publishers that were trying new things, but that consistently attracted complaints. For a while, those w...
24 April 2026
National Academies workshop on scientific integrity
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I spent most of the day in a (probably ill-advised) attempt to provide a service to the online science community. I followed as much of day ...
14 April 2026
Record number of NSF GRFP awards in 2026, awarded to the usual suspects
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Several outlets have run articles with the unexpected good news that the National Science Foundation is giving out more GRFP awards than eve...
13 April 2026
The National Academies get ratio’d on research integrity workshops
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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics is showing — again — that they are not up to the moment. Researcher Katy Mil...
13 March 2026
Summarize your research visually
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Word cloud generators are always fun. This one creates a word cloud based on a Google Scholar profile . That “maple leaf” is one of the shap...
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