On my recent visit to Great Britain (the first one post-Brexit) I had the pleasure of talking to Dorothy Bishop. Bishop is Professor of Psyc...

Where do we draw the boundary between science and pseudoscience? It’s is a question philosophers have debated for as long as there’s been ...

Heavy paper. What would you say if a man with British accent cold-calls you one evening to offer money because he likes your blog? I s...

I get a lot of email asking me for advice on paper publishing. There’s no way I can make time to read all these drafts, let alone comment ...

The "publon" is "the elementary quantum of scientific research which justifies publication" and it's also a website ...

Some days ago, I commented on an arxiv paper that had been promoted by the arxiv blog (which, for all I know, has no official connection...

Standards make sure the nuts fit the bolts. [Image Source: nutsandbolts.mit.edu ] The German Institute for Standardization, the “Deutsc...

This week's cover of The Economist. A year ago, I told you what I think is the future of scientific peer review : Peer review that i...

Nature news titled recently that "Rebel academics ponder how to break free of commercial publishers" . The rebels would be better ...

Occasionally, I come across these people who say things like “The peer review process is severely broken,” as Virginia Hughes at Seed Magazi...

[My weekend post on the recent survey on peer review reminded me I meant to write about a peer review problem that's only rarely mentio...

The Publishing Research Consortium published last week the results of a global survey on the attitudes and behaviour of academics in relati...

Last week, I received a manuscript that I was asked to referee. Since already 3 other manuscripts are lying on my desk (somewhere) waiting t...

Folks, you might have seen this very interesting paper Interpretation of Quantum Field Theories with a Minimal Length Scale Authors: S. Hoss...