After years of sloganeering, it’s interesting to see two trials of paid peer review coming on the heels of one another. The latest test of p...

“Pay reviewers” has become a social media slogan that could be a welcome change to academic publishing if potential pitfalls are avoided . B...

 Shana Gadarian just wrote this useful thread on Bluesky . I’ve compiled it with some light editing. Some brief thoughts from someone who st...

So. In the United States, funding for science has slowed, mass layoffs have cut through federal science agencies like a chainsaw, and someon...

An American politician with a seat in the House of Representatives has introduced a resolution “to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland...

I am glad to hear that Felisa Wolfe-Simon is doing well and still loves science. But lots of other information in a new article in the New Y...

Daniel Bolnick wrote a thread on Bluesky about the biology of sex that I thought would make a great blog post. So I saved him the trouble an...

I called last week, “The worst week for science ever.” Of course, it was just the worst week so far . This morning, I saw reports of two lar...

Sunday : American Society for Microbiology scrubs mentions of diversity from their websites. Tuesday : NASA stops everything to scrub mentio...

The United States has doused itself in gasoline and lit a match. The only question is whether the fire can be put out with no more than scor...