Oh so now copyright matters.

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Honestly, it has always been a bad idea.

Intriguing to see the returnn of the acceptability of the embargo period.

Of course the biggest revelation was that mathematicians have blackboards in bathrooms 4/n

Submissions up 12%, MDPI adds an astonishing additional 1700 employees www.researchinformation.info/news/mdpi-re...

A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO. www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

The Cooper lab is hiring a postdoc with a strong background in mouse genetics and molecular biology to advance.our gene drive work. Must be extremely organized, engineering-minded, and outcomes-oriented. Spread the word and have interested candidates email me directly.

One for the bibliophiles 😂

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Congratulations to CSHL’s John Inglis, Charla Lambert, and Jason Williams for being elected 2025 “#AAASFellow”s by American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more about our awardees and their achievements: https://www.cshl.edu/cshls-inglis-lambert-and-williams-elected-aaas-fellows/

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Human beings are innate storytellers. This editorial from an outgoing EiC is a beautifully written piece about beginnings and endings in scholarly communication. Save this article to refer to the next time you're asked to attend an "article of the future" workshop.

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom www.openculture.com/2026/03/lynd...

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I went to SXSW for the first time in twenty years… dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-dream-...

Elsevier spends $2B/year on tech. Springer Nature has spent hundreds of millions. Sobering numbers for non-profit tech initiatives trying to compete newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...

The Metric That Lied To Newsrooms: Web traffic, the metric that newsrooms use to prove their value, no longer measures anything real newspainpoints.substack.com/p/the-metric...

What happens when search engines start rewriting journal article titles?

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Meta is killing off the metaverse. It lost $80 billion qz.com/meta-metaver...

Remarkable retraction notice.

Springer Nature 2025 results show 6.2% revenue growth, 9.2% profit growth, share price is up on the news but still remains down more than 32% since its debut. www.researchinformation.info/news/springe...

Yep. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/abo...

I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had. Let's have it 1/🧵 www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicChatter

AI is incredible because it's trained on the sum of humanity. But its outputs are the average of humanity, not its peak, nor its tangents. If you use it for creativity, it's incredibly good at making you average. 8/n

The x-ray glasses are fake. The dog poop is plastic. But the fake bullet hole stickers definitely look real.

Other will always say "philanthropists" or "funders" should pay. But we all say that about everything, and funders favor "new" things and are rarely willing to pay for boring maintenance of "old" things.

because commercial publishers are happy to paywall anything they can (not to mention making hundreds of millions from high-volume APC journals) so when librarians come to assess what they are paying for non-profits often look most vulnerable.

one of the many problems with the APC model isn't it doesn't (shouldn't?) cover the cost of converting/hosting/maintaining legacy content. Non-profits get caught in a bind: they are expected to provide Gold OA, delayed free green OA, free legacy content - all of which limits revenue options - and...

“The issue emerged because journals and funders increasingly require researchers to publish the code they have used to analyse large datasets. When intending to upload code, some researchers have also accidentally published partial or entire Biobank datasets to GitHub.”

I used to respond to these kinds of posts a lot, where an academic acquires a scrap of knowledge of scholarly book publishing & then makes hasty, largely ill-informed pronouncements built on mistaken assumptions & a consumerist mindset. My response would try to inform, point to better analysis, etc.

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arXiv is being spun out from Cornell University and is looking for an inaugural CEO. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and 11 Others Sue Anna’s Archive Over Alleged Copyright Infringement www.medianama.com/2026/03/223-...

I've worked with academic and professional editors. I see arguments for both, and each have their drawbacks. Some very smart and competent individuals in both categories.

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

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As a proponent of staring off into space as an essential component of ideation, this post resonated with me.

Reminder: bioRxiv's "no reviews/hypotheses" policy is something we had from the outset, because it would require subjective judgments akin to peer review (and rapid dissemination seemed less critical for this type of article). The ease of generating these with LLMs make me glad we have it. 2/n

Classic: youtu.be/IBfMLmNjFn4?...

SCOTUS Refuses Challenge to Human Authored Copyright Rule lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/03/scot...

"Null results are essential to refutations [that] correct the scientific record...but data are not a democracy" www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/3/...

The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on chromosome engineering in 8p syndrome, convergent evolution in arid rodents, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social The cover image highlights the work by Moss et al., who describe how to use fluorescence flow cytometry and specific AuxInYeast strains to study #maize auxin perception. ⬇️Links below

Here's a chart showing who funds basic research in the US. It's easy to tell that private funding cannot make up for significant cuts to government funding.

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Sharing the concluding chapter to my out of print book The New Analog - I wrote this some time ago, but consolidation in media seems to have made it only moreso dadadrummer.substack.com/p/listening-...

And remember Carl Sagan: “they laughed at Columbus…they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the clown” 2/2