I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also an […]
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"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#paywalled)
There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.
* The author and her co-authors were foolish to […]
"Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
(#paywalled)
"The culprit is not the old wave of scraper bots and search crawlers, but […]
Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-ipo-makes-elon-musk-worlds-first-trillionaire-2026-06-11/
From the end of Seneca's second letter to Lucilius:
"The pauper is not the person who has too little but the one who desires more. What does it […]
"Judge Learns #Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used #AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case."
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/
There was no AI (as we know it today) when I was in law school. But we had a […]
Kudos to the #MIT Graduate Student Council for adopting "a resolution expressing support for campus libraries to exit big deal journal packages and calling for changes to promotion and tenure processes to move away from journal-based metrics." […]
Paul Litvak wrote a thoughtful piece on the limitations of the scientific journal article and the advantages of a proposed new genre or structure.
https://www.paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of-academic-journals
The new structure he describes is similar to one I proposed in 2012: one that would […]
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"Federal science agencies facing a ‘generational loss,’ nonprofit says."
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/federal-science-agencies-facing-a-generational-loss-nonprofit-says/
"Currently, there are about 726,000 federal employees working at science-related agencies…That’s after a […]
"The Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later."
https://www.27unihted.org/bethesda-declaration-one-year-later
"Today, on June 9, 2026, we provide an update to members of Congress and the public on the current status of #NIH, one year after the #BethesdaDeclaration. The chaos of 2025 has been […]
