New podcast episode, some LLM talk and then book talk for your long weekend. www.the-geyser.com/pod-book-tim...

Philanthropic organizations that aren’t. www.the-geyser.com/open-philant...

Nearly $1 million for two pickles? 🥒 www.the-geyser.com/a-900-000-pi...

Who cares if Amodei has a PhD? And there's no way pharma is going to use this for anything except weird mocktail recipes on Fridays. www.statnews.com/2026/06/30/a...

ANOTHER SIGNING if you’re along Boston’s North Shore at Jabberwocky Books. Get your copy early, and meet the authors! jabberwockybookshop.com/event/2026-0...

IN LESS THAN A MONTH, we're at @northshirebooks.bsky.social for a signing event. Get your book early, meet the authors, and maybe pet a cute dog or three! northshire.com/event/2026-0...

BE THE FIRST to get a copy of our book on July 21st at @portersqbooks.bsky.social — RSVP today! portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-0...

Pop culture references atop a book about how digital media business models and incentives have disrupted science. What more could you want? Pre-order yours today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Real science is drowning in fake correlations drawn from open data. www.the-geyser.com/open-science...

A story of science exploited by a tech-inspired business model predicated on ideas of “open.” Pre-order your copy today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

"Content" is the world’s worst word. Amen. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Today’s date is a palindrome.

“This highly informative book should be . . . required reading for anyone involved in the information field.” — Library Journal www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

This week’s song. www.the-geyser.com/song-part-1-...

It’s a good week when two sources of inspiration for your book are able to see it — while on different continents, too!

This week’s fetch. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

This parody is dedicated to @derekberes.bsky.social and @this-is-mallory.bsky.social — "Enter Offer Code GRIFT."

I am once again yelling from the rooftops that this man is a eugenicist. He fundamentally believes that he and his ilk are "superior" and anyone who needs extra support isn't worthy of life. Miller is the one who put RFK Jr. in place. Miller has a LONG and loud history of this behavior.

Science has to go rogue to survive the Era of Digital Dimwits. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

Why can anyone be a scientific publisher? www.the-geyser.com/should/

North Carolina deals with lingering problems from OMICS despite FTC injunction. www.the-geyser.com/omics-persis...

Another signing to note, this time on July 25th at @northshirebooks.bsky.social in Manchester, VT.

Another signing to note, this time at Jabberwocky Books on the North Shore of Boston on July 24th.

Book signings start next month, including chances to snag limited copies before the official release date. Here’s one at @portersqbooks.bsky.social you might want to note.

The grifters have an aesthetic, one informed by their targets. Science has nothing to do with it. www.the-geyser.com/the-aestheti...

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist rockin'🎶'Bagpipe Swing' #bluesmusic

Our response to the author attempting to analyze publishing costs in last week’s “First Opinion” in @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/06/20/b...

New favorite picture of our pre-release edition. You’ve been warned . . .

How Google summarizes our book. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.

This week's song is for @thewarningarmy.bsky.social writ large. www.the-geyser.com/friday-song-...

Absolutely this. Two kinds of people talk about IQ scores like they're meaningful -- very dumb people and very racist people, and they're usually both.

It's a topic scientific and scholarly publishers love to hate, and we have thoughts in this impromptu podcast. www.the-geyser.com/pod-lets-tal...

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

This week's fetch. www.the-geyser.com/p/6ed6d4b3-7...

DuckDuckGo summarizes our book this way:

“So sue me!” OK! www.the-geyser.com/the-llm-liab...

Available for pre-order. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

This week’s song. www.the-geyser.com/friday-song-...

today in dystopia watch: all your pokemon go scans helped train a system for killer drones

This week’s fetch. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

A reminder that @nejm.org rolled out an LLM that could be made to lie, fabricate, and mislead. www.the-geyser.com/ai-on-nejm-w...

A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org

“The American oligarchy is an AI oligarchy." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...