In the last two weeks, the new White House has thrown more monkey wrenches into the American scientific research machine than ever before. G...

In 2021, I was in front of the US Consulate in Toronto. And there was a small plaque that was surprisingly moving to me. As the United State...

The Bookseller is reporting that Springer Nature is testing AI checks in their production pipeline for journal articles . According to the ...

From time to time, editorial boards quit journals. It happens often enough that I usually don’t pay much attention. But the outgoing editors...

The second article that arose from my posting of preprints is now available . The title is, “Why scientific hoaxes aren’t always useless.” T...

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...

You get hurt, hurt ‘em back. You get killed… Walk it off.  Captain America,  Avengers: Age of Ultron

Generative AI fatalism (or Gen AI fatalism): The assertion that generative AI must be accepted, because its widespread adoption is inevitabl...

Something I had long dreaded came to pass yesterday. Google Scholar introduced generative AI. “New! AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim ...

Apropos of nothing, here are two pictures I thought I’d posted back in November 2016, but I can’t seem to find any more. They’re a couple of...

A new paper by Kasiouras and colleagues attempts to provide evidence for nociceptive neurons in a decapod crustacean, a shore crab.  The aut...

I was reading yet another “Scientists behaving badly” article . This one was about Jonathan Pruitt, who used to work where I used to work (d...

Oh, this is fun. Here is “Doctor Zen” in Gallifreyan writing from Doctor Who . I have to be careful, or I’ll spend hours translating things ...