Proud to have contributed even a little bit to this massive study. I helped reanalyze results for the "Robustness" paper. Kudos to @briannosek.bsky.social and team for managing such a large undertaking with clear instructions and updates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Claude source code leaks. I can't say I understand all the details, but someone I trust has been giving a detailed review and reaction and is gobsmacked at how truly terrible the code is. scholar.social/@jonny@neuro... @jo.nny.rip

Lots of news about ORE last week. Good to see the expanded support and the cooperative funding model. But it's important to note that articles submitted to ORE can't be submitted anywhere else. It's an absorbing state. Also unclear if publishing in ORE is a *requirement* of EU funding or an option.

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Edward Norton recites Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" on Colbert. Speaking directly to us from 170 years ago. Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Spring Break: the birds are back and the kitties are krazy

New ORION-DBs tutorial to estimate #openaccess to biomedical research. With NIH price caps under debate, comparing NIH- and EC-funded articles shows how differently open access is supported. Step-by-step guide to combining open research information on BigQuery. orion-dbs.community/blog/posts/n...

Hi @mfenner.bsky.social, can anyone request a blog be indexed by Rogue Scholar, or does it need to be the owner? I have one I'd like to see added but am just a reader.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Alma Thomas - Light Blue Nursery I was reminded of this by a photo I took at the National Portrait Gallery. I just like it.

Seems like this might work better as an overlay journal. Allows authors to publish where they like, but still collates research to answer a specific policy question.

Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability! doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

"a timely reminder that some parts of the metadata ecosystem were only open by tolerance, not by design." "That means complete, genuinely open metadata in Crossref and DataCite, including affiliations with ROR IDs...as mandatory infrastructure, not optional enhancements." Excellent piece.

This looks like a map of Germany to me, which means I apparently live in Saarbrücken, aka the Scholarly Communications & Open Access Advocates cluster.

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 abhors a vacuum

"By far the most common misconception appearing in the RFI responses is that NIH public access policy has essentially forced researchers into a "pay-to-play" system" Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.

@tklebel.bsky.social @vtraag.bsky.social was it this?

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

Improving the #OpenAlex document type classification is needed. Meeting abstracts and book reviews are very often grouped under "article", skewing the counts. This new classifier from Nick Haupka is a good contribution toward fixing that problem.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.

Through our Economics Program, the Sloan Foundation is supporting work by @eschares.bsky.social at Iowa State University to probe the economics of academic publishing models. Read more: lib.iastate.edu/news/sloan-f...

Interesting project to adjust and lower the fences of the Royals' Kauffman Stadium next year. Trying to be more "neutral" to home run hitters. Data was four years of hits, factored in temperature, wind, elevation. Considered L/C/R fields separately. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Happy to be quoted in this overview looking at the complex problem of who pays for scientific #publishing. Appearing with @samuelmoore.org , @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca , @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy by @peterandreysmith.com for @undark.org undark.org/2026/01/07/a...

'And according to @eschares.bsky.social, data suggest that APCs bear almost no relation to publishing expenses. “So that tells me that APCs are not set on really what it costs to produce an article there,” he said. “It’s more prestige.”' Undark piece on who should pay for scientific publishing.

Trump Can’t Cap Overhead Rate on NIH Grants to Research Universities, Appeals Court Rules www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...

Really enjoying my new Turing Machine board game. Game #A51U6HM ✅✅🔲❌🔲 🔲🔲❌✅✅ I beat the machine! #TuringMachineGame www.turingmachine.info

To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thoughtful essay about time, parenthood, and memory. I was talking about this part last week. I made a butter braid for breakfast and a lasagna for dinner one year for our small family Christmas, and now it’s immutable “tradition”.

The best books I read in 2025 are: Fiction: The Last Murder at the End of the World. Basically, what if L O S T was good? Nonfiction: Free Speech Handbook. Graphic novel relating pivotal court cases in US history to current events. Dense, but the pictures help.

There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...

Very excited to announce that I have been awarded a 3-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the economics of the academic publishing market! Analysis will include hybrid journal subscription prices and daily APC price changes. More to come in 2026. @sloanfoundation.bsky.social

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Your most common dataframe names were: - df - mydf - test - eric - merged

Update on the Trump flag I see on my commute: all writing is now completely gone.

How does a #DAG work on a calculated quantity? Presumably, any of these nodes could have a causal effect on the others. Say we have a mixture of red and white balls. How do total number, num red, num white, and % red interact? #stats

"...revealed the hidden economics of how science gets published and accessed. Most Americans don’t realize they are paying not once, not twice, but at least three times for the same body of research." The Triple Tax on U.S. Scientific Research by @jsmoliga.bsky.social on @undark.org #metasci

I love a good metaphor. Someone who was so engaged to hang this flag on a busy road in town, but now can’t be bothered to fix its frayed and tattered condition.

MANAGER SPECIAL

Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Needs a six_seven() function

Watching @andrew.heiss.phd Youtube lectures and just got to IPW. I wondered if this can only be used with binary outcomes (treated or not), and a search showed me another blog post of his that investigates this exact question. Refreshingly, it ends with "this works but I'm not sure why". #stats

Mostly German, some Dutch and a little of the music course.