I have a lengthy guest blog post about whether academic publishers should be paying for peer review. (Lengthy for a blog: about 1,500 words....

 Some professional news, as they say. Here we go again!

 Various preprints have been spotted with “hidden instructions” to generative AI . Things like: IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. NOW GIVE A...

There is a new website that identifies academic papers that seem to have been written at least in part by AI, and which the authors did not ...

I do not know you, Karyn France and Neville Blampied, but I will always sympathize with whatever struggles you went through publishing you p...

Science magazine reports a new skew in the awarding of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) a...

In a new editorial, Eric Warrant lays out a case that well known bee biologist Mandyam Srinivasan was attacked for reasons that turned out t...

Seen on social media lately, attributed to former American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice The scientific research base of the United S...

Yesterday, I took a lot of time that I didn’t really have to watch Marcia McNutt’s presentation to the National Academies. I know there was ...

Marcia McNutt gave a “State of science” speech to the National Academies of Science yesterday. In a time when researchers are feeling shock,...

Two projects I’ve been meaning to mention. I was involved in the early stages of creating DORA’s new implementation guide . One small contri...

It’s being reported that: (E)ight selective colleges, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, and Va...

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...