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The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

Rebuilding the Architecture of Science

Science built the modern world. It’s time to rebuild the world of science.

Decolonising Science Reading List

In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it

Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

What stories should we tell about scientific progress now?

In search of the mysterious fruits of basic science

The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!

Is the current form of the scientific paper still optimal in 2025? How do we preserve, and efficiently leverage, the uncut gems of the scientific process?

The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs

Abstract. How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem even accidental? And most importantly, how can we accelerate them and

Can anyone fix science?

Science has always been in crisis. This is fine.

The new way we’ll do science

Papers should become human-readable views over a graph of data, tools, results, and certificates.

The “Terrible Engine of Destruction” That Inspired Federal Science Funding

What can we learn about the relationship between science and the American public from the story of plagues of locusts in the 1870s?

Jason Shepherd on Twitter / X

I have quite a lot of thoughts on this..that won't fit in a tweet. Bottomline is that there are issues scientists in the US would love to improve - faster review, less grant writing, more stability and freedom to do risky science. The folks celebrating this doc are mostly../1 https://t.co/xlPAH9XYNC— Jason Shepherd (@JasonSynaptic) July 23, 2026

Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X

In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age.This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/ikM6pX2ndP— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 21, 2026

The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!

What if we didn't collapse all the knowledge from the scientific process into one paper?

How and When to Involve Crowds in Scientific Research | James Evans

The lone academic in a basement lab is an endangered species. Years ago I asked Paul Ginsparg, who founded arXiv, what features his machine-learning filter used to flag speculative submissions. The top three: single-authored, submitted on a weekend, and heavy citation of Newton and Einstein. Science is a contact sport now. Marion Poetz and Henry Sauermann's How and When to Involve Crowds in Scientific Research (https://lnkd.in/g5pwVbfD) is the field manual. What crowds can do: Volume. Zooniverse mobilizes 2.7 million people to classify galaxies and court records. Galaxy Zoo's co-founder hand-classified 50,000 galaxies in one week before concluding that isolation would break him. Reach. NASA spent years failing to predict solar flares, then broadcast the problem. The winner was a semi-retired radio engineer in rural New Hampshire who swapped satellite data for radio data. Experience. Patients and caregivers asked to generate research questions produced 826 that scientists had missed, including the link between aging and wound healing. Bench-to-bedside runs backward. One caution the book underplays: an open call is not an inclusive one. Participation costs in time, money, and access screen people out. Self-selection can narrow the very diversity that makes crowds thrive. As AI floods the labor supply of routine, homogeneous cognition, human crowds become more valuable, not less. Machines process. People notice what nobody thought to ask. Check out my review @ https://lnkd.in/gkzvWrRC and the book @ https://lnkd.in/g5pwVbfD!