I make a brief cameo appearance in a new article about data visualization . Bar graphs are about as simple and basic as you get in data visu...

“Reproducibility debt” is an interesting and useful take on the matter of reproducibility and replication. I stumbled across a discussion on...

The BMJ will start paying £50 for reviews. The catch? It’s not for peer review, it’s for reviews from patients and the public. They still ...

In the last few days, a bunch of people on Bluesky discovered a paper that has been out for a few months, “Practice of neurosurgery on Satur...

There’s an old joke: “Fast, cheap, good: Pick two.” Generative AI is fast and cheap. It will not be good. I would like “good” to be a higher...

My last jobs didn’t have any expectations for research, so my publication rate slowed significantly. I wanted to do something about that. A ...

I finally got a chance to update my collection of academic hoaxes ! I am now up to 42 academic hoaxes, which is triple the number that I sta...

Advice from people with experience fighting powerful fascist opponents: “ Do not comply in advance. ” In a new Science editorial , National...