I recently read this article on actress Sydney Sweeney: https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places (I liked you in Madame Web...

I’ve written a little bit about how often notions of “purity” come up in discussions of scientific publishing . I see lots hand waving about...

Undark has an interview with Paul Sutter about the problems of science . Now before I get into my reaction, I want to say that this intervi...

I have a very specific memory of film critic Leonard Maltin on Entertainment Tonight reviewing Godzilla 1985 (the first American release o...

I’ve mentioned this on social media before, but I might as well get it into the blog for archival purposes. We just switched to Daylight Sav...

Way back when, I blogged about a Texas proposal to include average course grades next to a student’s earned grades on the student transcript...

Say what you will about social media, it is a very revealing way to learn what your colleagues think. Last week, science Twitter could not s...

Since I joined DORA, the biggest project I have been working on pretty much nonstop is now ready. It’s called Reformscape . Literally, Refor...

“Why do zebras have stripes?” “Why did T. rex have such small arms?” In evolutionary biology, functional questions like those are notorious...

Some time ago, I wrote about the anonymous website Predatory Reports. Some things about it struck me as sketchy .  It looks like my instinct...

I’m at the movies last night, watching the previews, and up comes a blurb about Kung Fu Panda 4 . Now I have to tell you, I love the Kung Fu...

How it started: How it’s going: Second photo from  https://x.com/lenakumba/status/1731423282228867322 26 December 2023 : Originally posted o...

The change in my job is slowly starting to have an effect. I’m quoted, as DORA Program Director, in a new article in Physics Today . As a bi...

Twitter is now X and its credibility is shattered. Even though a lot of people keep using it, but it’s the grudging use of people who are mo...

Space: 1999 first aired on October 17, 1975. Unusually for a science fiction show, it gave a quite precise date for when its events starte...

Previously, I organized a roundtable discussion for the tenth anniversary of DORA about institutions trying to “put a thumb on the scale” o...

There has been a proliferation of sites trying to take advantage of disaffected users leaving Twitter. I have been creating  accounts, of co...

So, uh, I’ve got a new job. And it6s is the first time an organization has sent out an announcement of my hire . It’s going to be a big new...

The title of this post is the joke I would normally make on Twitter.  Except now the number of tweets people can read is being limited and I...

 Recently I spotted this conference slide shared on Twitter . A slide with no visuals, just a wide screen of four paragraphs of text. I tho...