Chief Science and Strategy Officer, openRxiv. Co-Founder, bioRxiv and medRxiv.
"pictur[e] chronic inflammation as a road crew that shows up to fix a broken pipe...they inevitably create additional problems: noise, dust, traffic snarls...those new problems may become as troublesome as — or even worse than — the broken pipe itself." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.www.nytimes.comA "defining characteristic of editorial work is responsibilities rarely disappear....new integrity measures don't replace tasks; they're added. [Staff] are expected to investigate image[s], evaluate disclosures, verify identities, respond to allegation[s]" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/29/t...
The Hidden Cost of Trust - The Scholarly KitchenResearch integrity demands stronger safeguards in order to protect the scholarly record. But for editors, when new integrity measures are introduced, they do not replace existing tasks; they are added...scholarlykitchen.sspnet.orgarXiv has spun out as an independent non-profit like openRxiv. Today they announce their new CEO and founding Board blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/30/a...
arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of DirectorsarXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directorsblog.arxiv.orgSSPE is a fatal brain inflammation caused by measles. Occurs in every country where there are infections. Best way to prevent it: vaccination. Cattaneo on live TWIV podcast recording at #ASV2026 www.microbe.tv/twiv/
This Week in VirologyA podcast about viruses - the kind that make you sickwww.microbe.tvSpeaker refused to divulge the name of compound X in Q&A after his ASCB talk. Questioner [who will be known to many cell biologists] blew a raspberry into the mic and gave the speaker the finger.
Artologica aka Michele BanksHey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses
"Academic AI research is driven almost entirely by Asia, even though the commercial centre of power is in the USA." newsletter.journalology.com/p/the-jist-j...
The Jist: July 8 to July 27Get the gist of recent news stories, written by journalists, that cover topics related to scholarly communication.newsletter.journalology.com"7 days after the medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction" www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation revealswww.science.org"assessment outcomes were shaped more by the judges than by the papers...Journal effects did not explain [the] variation" We often say "just read the paper, have an expert look at it, don't use journal as a proxy in evaluations. But if beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
Judges matter more than papers in post-publication research assessmentResearch assessment relies on expert evaluations, yet human judgement is noisy, and it is unclear whether differences in assessment arise primarily from differences in genuine research quality or from...arxiv.orgThe Impact Factor is an excellent measure of article quality.
James McLeodIt's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
Trump science adviser['s] proposal to reduce the role of universities would up end [the] system in place since WWII. His call for the administration to de-prioritize life sciences...raised alarms among biomedical researchers" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for UniversitiesMichael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.www.nytimes.com