Our latest paper: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered With Dead Neanderthals (also on bsky.app), Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex, Morten Oksvold, Cheshire, and me. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“Women are asking, ‘Why would I marry this person?’ A lot of men are undateable. Truly undateable.” go.nature.com/3UywKlN

Top education researcher goes to court over plagiarism claims, university review. retractionwatch.com/2025/08/21/joh…

Maryland is writhing with them.

Andrey Kolmogorov: The Soviet Counterpart to Claude Shannon When we think of information theory, the name that usually comes to mind is Claude Shannon, the American mathematician whose 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” founded the field.

Clearing out some stuff in Mum’s garage and found this. Anyone else still have theirs?

Researchers, including Jennifer Byrne and Anna Abalkina, suggest rethinking peer review by using the “Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/le…

Authors of commentary call out committee of journal editors for “overlooked deeper structural issues” of predatory journals. ijme.in/articles/weak-…

“The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system.” nature.com/articles/d4158…

"The day the paper was published should have been a moment of pride. Instead, it felt like a quiet erasure." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4oPJkeg

I will never not see the square root of ANS

Real number set diagram. Useful. [bityl.co/RZVB]

Trying to check in online for return flight to the US on British Airways. App and website are a joke. Ask for more information but the next screen doesn't request anything. Amateur hour. Embarrasing for a national flag carrier.

Very sad news, but what a lifetime of achievements. 大往生です。

A new books model: Publisher Collections on JSTOR - stm-publishing.com/a-new-books-mo…

The latest retraction for Naohiro Kameta brings his total to 40, earning him a place on the Retraction Watch Leaderboard. retractionwatch.com/2025/08/27/nao…

Oldie but goodie.

CDC crisis deepens as top leaders quit after Susan Monarez firing. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Exclusive: Cancer researcher sues MD Anderson over misconduct finding retractionwatch.com/2025/08/28/exc…