January 21, 2020
Jon Tennant, on the [flimsy-at-best substantiation behind the recent Sci-Hub/Russian intelligence coverage](http://fossilsandshit.com/what-is-the-public-evidence-surrounding-the-latest-sci-hub-allegations/): > At the present, there seems to be no public evidence...
January 17, 2020
A [joint letter from 21 academics](https://medium.com/@brembs/learned-societies-lean-to-the-green-f904336f51ad), on the now-notorious [AAP...
January 13, 2020
Martin Eve, on the [Taylor & Francis acquisition of F1000](https://eve.gd/2020/01/12/the-tf-buyout-of-f1000-neutralises-the-plan-s-threat/): > What is actually happening here is that T&F is neutralizing the threat of Plan S. The Plan states that funded research must...
January 13, 2020
Last week Ithaca S+R's Roger Schonfeld published a characteristically [astute post](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/01/06/competing-researcher-identity/) on the race to "own" researcher identity. Schonfeld's analysis of the commercial players—chess moves from...
January 10, 2020
From *Inside Higher Ed*'s [bizarre puff piece](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/10/jersey-city-economic-development-drives-changes-saint-peters-university) on Jersey City's Jesuit university Saint Peter's: > “It was a sleepy school. It didn’t do a lot of...
