‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

*not just science. Research across disciplines!

Sharing my new venture. I'm excited to expand my work with scholarly publishers and platforms, facilitating deeper integration of library perspectives in their work. librarianintheloop.com

Strong statement against the OMB's proposed rule change that puts research under political control from the American Association for Cancer Research.

“The sooner we update the way we think about the current state of A.I., the sooner we can all stop freaking out about the wrong things — and start preparing ourselves for the ways it really will transform our world.” (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

While the pool may have have grown, the report says, in surprise to noone, that it takes more effort to secure reviews. Publons 2018 analysis quoted the oft repeated figure that you need to send 2.4 invites to secure one report (up from 1.9 in 2013). Well, this number is now 4.5! /

For example, the report notes that the global pool of reviewers expanded by 54% since 2018. However, what it neglected to note is that the research output in the same time period (based on Dimensions data) increased by some 56%... /

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Wanted to point out this fantastic new book we've just published by @carlmcohen.bsky.social , "STEM Career Dynamics: A Comprehensive Guide To Getting A Job In Science and Technology". So much useful information in here, both for jobs in academia and industry www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...

"In either case, this appears to be an attempt to shift the cost of federal policies to universities — a strategy borrowed, perhaps, from observing the results of Plan S in Europe, which successfully shifted the costs of research funder policies to universities and national consortia."

STM members: we've brought together a resource center to help you respond to the proposed OMB revisions to federal research grant rules — including a new toolkit, with more added as the comment period runs. Open through 13 July. Access the center (login required): stm-assoc.org/what-we-do/c...

A new @stmassoc.bsky.social report examines Phase II of China’s Excellence Action Plan for STM Journals. Phase II has a clear ambition: a publishing ecosystem built in the public interest, with China’s STM journals among the world’s top tier by 2035. stm-assoc.org/new-report-p... #ScholComm #STM

NIH Request for Information on Measuring and Rewarding Scientific Impact grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"In some cases, the very same companies selling detection tools are also making apps that allow students to cheat, including by writing papers for them or rephrasing text written by others." Sylvester McMonkey McBean approves.

The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

😂 The Jetsons lied to us

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Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

wow, Mamdani clearly knows ball

Association of University Presses Issues Statement in Opposition to the White House OMB Proposed Rules for Federal Research Funding aupresses.org/news/respond...

Happy JIF day. My congratulations/condolences to those who celebrate.

Excellent post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today by @sciencedarla.bsky.social - must-read for anyone who cares about the impact of the recent #OMB proposals on scholarly societies & the communities they serve. TLDR #catastrophic scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/15/g...

If there are tons of new low-quality papers, the obvious solution is for journal editorial teams (more so than now) to serve as the arbiter of quality. Result: I predict that the rise of AI papers will make journal reputation increasingly important.

UK impose legal requirement for Google search to allow publishers to opt out of having their content appear in Google’s AI summaries, while German court rules that Google can be held liable for false information that appears in its AI overviews publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/deve...

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

"yet another demonstration that, when even basic facts can become politicized, trying to avoid becoming a target by saying “we’re just focused on the science” will not be a successful strategy."

The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know, Nancy Wexler featured in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

"The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams... [A]t Google's scale, it means millions of wrong answers every hour"

This Could Be Trump’s Worst Attack on Science Yet (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

We urge GSA members and the genetics community to submit a public comment on the recently proposed OMB regulations—which pose drastic challenges to the scientific enterprise—by July 13, 2026! Submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First www.openculture.com/2026/06/the-...

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

The thing that absolutely burns my biscuits about this is that human writers don't "sound like 'AI'". The fucking slopgrift machines sound like us because it STOLE MASSIVE TRANCHES OF OUR WORK. It's blaming the *victims of* the theft for the grift *built on* the theft.

The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭

Precisely #Spite4Life

Some rare good news: the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) Subcommittee met this morning and approved a bill that strongly supports NIH. The subcommittee rejected the proposed cuts and recommended funding levels 1.35% above its FY26 recommendation.

i got fired from the lettering factory for “bad kerning”. it’s unfair dismissal if you ask me but I won’t fight it; i don’t want to bum any bridges

Scientists are raising the alarm about a White House proposal that could fundamentally recast federally funded science. The proposed rules would put political appointees in control of all federal grants and de-emphasize peer review, among other measures. go.nature.com/4ucZgsk

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social The cover image highlights the work by Mullens et al., who describe a protocol for high-throughput inoculation of #maize leaves with C. nebraskensis, enabling large-scale field evaluations of disease resistance. 🌽 ⬇️Links below

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. “It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,” So said.”

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And CSH Protocols, as an online database, was also launched in 2006. But the laboratory manuals program has been around for waay longer!

Just for reference, Nat Protocols inaugural issue was published in 2006. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology was established in 1987 😅

No, they were not

This already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

If not now, when? This is an emergency.

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