My favourite part of America’s science self-immolation is that they document it so well. whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/07/45470/
OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
www.whitehouse.govJul 22, 2026 at 12:37 AM
The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America
When Nature Calls: The Enshittification of Science and Its Enablers
Proof-of-work papers, policy laundering, and the collapse of self-correction
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…
Our Future Is Being Devoured By Feral Thought Experiments
Here's a chance to start taking it back.
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
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire
Rebuilding the Architecture of Science
Science built the modern world. It’s time to rebuild the world of science.
ReScience organization
Reproducible Science is good. Replicated Science is better. - ReScience organization
Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
I read through this, and it's remarkably autocratic, almost Soviet-style vision for science in the United States.
OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
www.whitehouse.govI missed a lot of #metascience discourse in hospital, and am mostly sad I didn't get a chance to wade in on the absurdity of this being a paper in Nature in 2026; ignoring a decade of commentary from statisticians on OSC 2015 paper. nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10078-y
Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature
www.nature.comAfter reading about ATProto stuff this morning I realised that one possible future for science publishing, within something like @atproto.science, is that every scientist becomes their own journal. The key realisation is that a paper published to my own PDS can be published in many journals.
Super cool! Imagining how something like this could be used for @atproto.science "journal" publishing
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