An incident in the career of the late and sorely missed Angelika Amon illustrates an ugly truth about scientific publishing. Continue reading
A burden of proof (Angelika Amon, libel, and the scientific record)
Publishing
A disunited front
Almost everybody agrees that the scientific publishing paradigm has to change – but that change might come faster if progressives could agree on what to alter first. Continue reading
The 9 types of academic authors
Nowadays it’s pretty standard for an academic paper to have a long list of authors – but who are those authors anyway? Continue reading
Lip service and walking the walk
The Natalie Portman – Rose McGowan spat illustrates a fundamental difference in activist behaviour. Continue reading
Preprints and direct democracy
Scientific publishing is in a revolutionary phase, with some instructive lessons to draw from the political arena. Continue reading
Obstetrics and review merits
The new Review Commons initiative from EMBO Press and ASAPbio is another significant development for the progressive movement in scientific publishing. Continue reading
Neither chickens nor toadies
Might waiving anonymity actually improve the fairness of peer review? Continue reading
The 9 types of peer reviewer
Time for another lighthearted posting! TIR profiles some of the main types of peer reviewer out there… Continue reading
Long players
No matter what the changes to the dissemination of research findings, there will always be a need for scientific papers. Continue reading
Use-by data
It’s not just food that goes off. Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 