May 18, 2020
[*Science*](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/open-access-science-funders-announce-price-transparency-rules-publishers), many paragraphs into its story on the updated Plan S "transparency" rules: > The pricing data will be shared with funders and research...
May 17, 2020
Liz Morrish, on the [politics and symbolism of professorial Zoom backgrounds](https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/background-as-foreground/): > Unsurprisingly, most universities will recommend that academics should be seated in front of a...
May 8, 2020
The incomparable Corey Robin, [writing for *The New Yorker*](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-pandemic-is-the-time-to-resurrect-the-public-university): > In academia, as in the rest of society, a combination of public and private actors directs...
May 6, 2020
From [last month's paper/call to action on "biblio diversity"](https://zenodo.org/record/3752923#.XrK-ZS1q2fA), co-authored by Kathleen Shearer, Leslie Chan, Iryna Kuchma, and Pierre Mounier: > The larger the decline, the more difficult it will be to reconstitute...
