February 8, 2023
Thomas Klebel and Tony Ross-Hellauer, [reporting in *Quantitative Science Studies*](https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/doi/10.1162/qss_a_00245/114729/The-APC-Barrier-and-its-effect-on-stratification) on their analysis of 1.5 million articles in the...
February 1, 2023
From Sarah Kearns’ just-published [editorial manifesto](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/t5i7htvu/) for *Commonplace*: > The landscape of knowledge sharing and dissemination is expansive. […] Moreover, critique floods the ecosystem partially rightly so...
January 30, 2023
This late-October MIT Technology Review story hasn’t aged well: [Rumman] Chowdhury says that working as part of a well-resourced team at Twitter has helped, reassuring her that she does not have to bear the burden alone. “I know that I can go away for a week and...
January 24, 2023
Murray State University’s A.J. Boston, writing in C&RL News on so-called “transformative agreements” (TAs, aka read-and-publish deals): On balance, any upsides that TAs may present are negated by the normalization of paying-to-publish, posing huge problems for...
January 19, 2023
Smart piece by Christopher Kelty: What is even weirder, and harder to explain, is that the internet we do have was caused by the internet we could have had. Elements of the figuration of that internet we could have had turned out to be motors of political domination....
