Ars Technica Poor journalism is making it harder for preprints There have been quite a few statements by various scientists on Twitter
bioRxiv Distracting from the peer-review problem From an article entitled ‘The risks of swiftly spreading coronavirus research‘ published
Acharya Balkrishna A trumpet for Ramdev The Print published an article entitled ‘Ramdev’s Patanjali does a ‘first’
Bioinformatics The scientist as inadvertent loser Twice this week, I’d had occasion to write about how science
arXiv To see faces where there are none This week in “neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what
embargoes Confused thoughts on embargoes Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae
arbitrariness A conference's peer-review was found to be sort of random, but whose fault is it? It’s not a good time for peer-review. Sure, if you’ve
China R&D in China and India “A great deal of the debate over globalization of knowledge economies has
Analysis Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science On May 25, I found Erika Salomon’s tweet: Excellent comment thread