September 7, 2021
Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira, together with nine Latin American co-authors, in an [important rejoinder](https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqab025/6359522) to an [open science (OS)...
September 1, 2021
Ansh Bhatnagar, [writing for *Tribune*](https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/08/we-cant-trust-the-market-with-scientific-knowledge), the revived magazine of the British left: > Scientific knowledge doesn’t just need to be free to read – it needs to be owned and...
August 31, 2021
Gabe Stein, in a smart critique of Joseph Berstein's Harper's takedown of 'Big Disinfo' Thus, explaining away attempts to understand the information ecosystem as merely the theater the Establishment needs “to build a political world that still makes sense,” as...
August 30, 2021
Gareth Leng and Rhodri Igor Leng, in an excerpt from their 2020 book The Matter of Facts: Pieter Kroonenberg, a Dutch statistician, discovered a nonexistent paper that had been cited more than 400 times. The phantom paper was cited as: Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J....
August 29, 2021
Arthur Levine—a reliable source for higher-ed disaster-porn—in a Chronicle piece (co-authored with Scott Van Pelt): Anticipating such upheaval, some institutions are already evolving. […] To look forward rather than backward is no easy feat. Colleges must confront...
August 23, 2021
From my just-published Commonplace piece on the mission-aligned funding exchange: Any alternative to the prevailing scholarly communication system must be built atop a different funding model, one that excludes neither readers nor authors. In broad strokes, that model...