A pound of Wagyu ground beef ($7.36) was cheaper than the regular stuff tonight ($7.89), so I got that instead.

I admit to stopping it mid-cycle to check the detergent flap opened correctly and there’s actually soap getting used, but never to rearrange!

The Ink Spots - I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (Official Audio) | Featured in Fallout YouTube video by All Seasons Music

Today I learned of The Ink Spots from Paul Simon on Colbert, and I'm nearly certain I've heard this play over the end credits of a TV show.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHd...

Proud to have contributed even a little bit to this massive study. I helped reanalyze results for the "Robustness" paper. Kudos to @briannosek.bsky.social and team for managing such a large undertaking with clear instructions and updates.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Claude source code leaks. I can't say I understand all the details, but someone I trust has been giving a detailed review and reaction and is gobsmacked at how truly terrible the code is.

scholar.social/@jonny@neuro...

@jo.nny.rip

This is in contrast to other P-R-C models like MetaROR, which has explicit agreements with journals to accept reviewed works.

I was thinking of ORE as a repository like PMC or NSF PAR, but it's functionally a journal with open (but not always signed) peer review.

Lots of news about ORE last week. Good to see the expanded support and the cooperative funding model. But it's important to note that articles submitted to ORE can't be submitted anywhere else. It's an absorbing state.

Also unclear if publishing in ORE is a *requirement* of EU funding or an option.

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it.

👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

#OpenAccess #ScholComm

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Edward Norton recites Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" on Colbert. Speaking directly to us from 170 years ago.

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,

It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
The dark threw its patches down upon me also

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Low shot of cat watching male and female cardinal through sliding glass door

Two cats craning their necks to see birds out a window

Two cats looking at camera, one on windowsill and one on couch arm

Spring Break: the birds are back and the kitties are krazy

Crosswalking ORION resources to measure open access to biomedical research literature – ORION-DBs This tutorial shows how to combine various ORION resources, with a focus on funder and open access. Using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the European Commission (EC) as examples, it draws...

New ORION-DBs tutorial to estimate #openaccess to biomedical research. With NIH price caps under debate, comparing NIH- and EC-funded articles shows how differently open access is supported.

Step-by-step guide to combining open research information on BigQuery.

orion-dbs.community/blog/posts/n...

Thanks, I'll reach out to their contact info!

Hi @mfenner.bsky.social, can anyone request a blog be indexed by Rogue Scholar, or does it need to be the owner? I have one I'd like to see added but am just a reader.

Nice! Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw...

Tell me more!

Capped | Clarke & Esposito NIH proposes APC caps, journals require Gold OA for compliance, “Google Zero” concerns

Yes or to those that allow "Green" accepted manuscript posting (SAGE, JHU Press, AAAS, ACM)
www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ca...

This post has a nice summary of options, choices, and trade-offs: acrlog.org/2025/07/15/s...

Spreadsheet screenshot showing: ID Journal Papers in 2025 (all authors) Papers with NIH funding journal share of NIH funded papers in 2025 Publisher oa_status apc_usd apc_usd_originalORconverted jour.1018370 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 173 13 0.075144509 Springer Nature Hybrid OA 3090 original

Will be interesting to see if authors take more care in choosing jnl/publisher to submit to. If S-N gets reputation for being hostile to NIH-funded work, those articles could move elsewhere

I've done research & this journal only had 7% (13/173) of 2025 articles with NIH, so likely not too sensitive

It looks like your library has a S-N agreement to cover the APC anyway?
guides.lib.utexas.edu/oa/utsupport...
Interestingly, the jnl allows accepted manuscript to be posted to a personal website for free immediately. Though not to PMC.

Screenshot of NIH page reading: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Publication Costs Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-048 Key Dates Release Date: December 17, 2024 Related Announcements April 30, 2025 - Revision: Notice of Updated Effective Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy. See Notice NOT-OD-25-101. December 17, 2024 - 2024 NIH Public Access Policy. See Notice NOT-OD-25-047. December 17, 2024 - Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Government Use License and Rights. See Notice NOT-OD-25-049. August 23, 2024 - Notice of the Reopening of the Public Comment Period for NOT-OD-24-144. See Notice NOT-OD-24-166. June 24, 2024 - Notice of Availability: National Institutes of Health Draft Public Access Policy. See Notice NOT-OD-24-144. February 21, 2023 - Request for Information on the NIH Plan to Enhance Public Access to the Results of NIH-Supported Research. See Notice NOT-OD-23-091. Issued by Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD) Purpose Purpose The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reiterates that compliance with the Public Access Policy is free. However, NIH recognizes that some peer-reviewed publishing routes may result in publication costs, including, but not limited to, article processing charges (APCs). Publication costs are allowable when they comport with the existing NIH cost principles (Grants Policy Statement (GPS) 7.2 and GPS 7.9.1 (Publication and Printing Costs)). Cost principles clarify when costs should be allocated as direct versus indirect costs, and they clarify charges and fees that are allowable under the outlined conditions.

Not necessarily, compliance is free. Post the manuscript to PMC yourself.
You've done a nice job preprinting and seem to publish a lot in PLOS ONE, Nature Comm, Scientific Reps which are fully OA with APC anyway. PNAS and Jnl Bio Eng allow accepted manuscript to be posted. JOSS is free regardless.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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Picture of two hockey players with missing teets - Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita. One player summed up the feelings of many: "It's foolish not to wear a helmet. But I don't - because many of the other guys don't. I know that's silly, but most of the players feel the same way. If the league made us do it, though, we'd all wear them and nobody would mind."

Fits with "Science is Like a Chicken Coop" by @rmcelreath.bsky.social

pie.yt?v=https://yo

Horizontal strips of blue, pink, red, yellow, orange. Each strip made up of smaller segments.

Alma Thomas - Light Blue Nursery

I was reminded of this by a photo I took at the National Portrait Gallery. I just like it.

I've heard it referred to as the "tree of life," so I guess Lebensbaum?

Seems like this might work better as an overlay journal. Allows authors to publish where they like, but still collates research to answer a specific policy question.

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

"a timely reminder that some parts of the metadata ecosystem were only open by tolerance, not by design."

"That means complete, genuinely open metadata in Crossref and DataCite, including affiliations with ROR IDs...as mandatory infrastructure, not optional enhancements."

Excellent piece.