How to catch a predator in the academic publisher quagmire. Dear esteemed Professor Waltho, I would like to take the privilege to invite you to contribute your research/discoveries to our overly open access journal. Simply email your manuscript as an attachment to below email... This is a typical opening from one of countless spam emails that flood the inboxes of scientists worldwide every day.

Although fraud and misconduct have always existed in research and scholarly communication, the rise of paper mills over the past decade has led to an unprecedented volume of fake or manipulated research being published. A 2022 report jointly published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the STM Association suggests that between 2 and 46% of submissions to journals in the time between 2019 and 2021 were produced by paper mills.

Last week, we hit “publish” on a major milestone for the U.S. biotechnology industry: the final report of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB). Two years of work. Over 1,800 experts. 180+ pages. And now the real work begins.

It is a basic good of modern societies to have access to knowledge, information and culture. A new practical guide by Till Kreutzer provides support in choosing the right Creative Commons licence and sharing content in a legally secure manner. It was created in a cooperation with Wikimedia Germany and the German UNESCO Commission.

As promised, the folks at NEIU have posted the video of my discussion with Scott Dodelson last week, so here you go: I am in the midst of writing a related post on cosmic tensions, so hopefully I can post that soon as well.

This is the Fourth in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

por Óscar Zárate A menudo la divulgación de la historia se confunde con simplificación sin más: una visión reducida y reduccionista, completamente masticada para consumo del público. El verdadero reto de esa noble labor es hacer digerible el conocimiento histórico sin sacrificar la complejidad propia de los asuntos humanos, en los que no existen las causas únicas ni los finales preestablecidos;

Today, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched an important new feature: showing the full-text content (in addition to metadata) of all participating blogs on blog post pages. Rogue Scholar has always stored the full-text internally and made it available via the REST API, as the full-text is needed for archiving and full-text search.

This is the First in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

This is the Second in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.

This is the Third in a series exploring once-thriving Appalachian towns left behind by shifting energy markets and changing times.