It looks as though preprints are here to stay in biomedicine, and I think that’s great. But I’ve been hearing variants of…

For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…

Isn’t it almost always the way? I had barely finished my recent post about alternatives to Google Scholar, it seems to…

I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our…

With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be…

A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed…

When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he…

The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to what we end up…

You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…

This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable…

I don’t recall hearing it before. But I’ve heard the slogan “high value, low wastage research” a lot the last…

It can be a long, unrewarding slog to unpack the problems in a published paper. David Allison and colleagues talked…