Over the years, I’ve been following publishers that were trying new things, but that consistently attracted complaints. For a while, those w...

I spent most of the day in a (probably ill-advised) attempt to provide a service to the online science community. I followed as much of day ...

Several outlets have run articles with the unexpected good news that the National Science Foundation is giving out more GRFP awards than eve...

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics is showing — again — that they are not up to the moment. Researcher Katy Mil...

Word cloud generators are always fun. This one creates a word cloud based on a Google Scholar profile . That “maple leaf” is one of the shap...

Grammarly is stealing the names of living scientists and science writers. It is using those names to sell “expert review” by generative AI...

Making the rounds on socials today is a new generative A.I. agent that logs into your class website and takes the course for you. I have no ...

I’m not going to pretend I’m a legal scholar, but I did call this one from the beginning . Over a year ago, a lawsuit was filed against seve...

As a comparative biologist, I appreciated Nanthia Suthana’s new opinion piece about how neuroscience research is relatively divided by what ...

A lot of people, and organizations, assuming the status quo is immutable. So they talk like politics is all swings and roundabouts. Some day...

Reuters is reporting that Texas governor Greg Abbot is telling Texas’s public universities and other agencies to stop asking for new H1-B vi...

We all have mental models of how we think things work. And it6s always a shock to learn how those models are wrong. For a long time, my ment...

“Slop” is Merriam-Webster’ s word of the year . This lines up nicely with my previously announced project of collecting generative AI slop g...

The last month saw a couple of relatively high profile examples of generative A.I. slop appearing in academic journals. From my collection o...

It’s Scientific Reports turn to be embarrassed for publishing obvious generative A.I. slop . The nonsensical bicycle, the bizarre almost wo...

Who thinks Google searches have gotten better recently? Because I have not seen anyone say that. A few days ago, Google Scholar started its...

Hat tip to Natalia Jagielska for pointing out that the latest cover of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is ChatGPT genera...

On this day in 2022, I was in the audience during the filming of Trevor Noah’s I Wish You Would special. It was filmed in Toronto, and I wa...

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!