arXiv now caps you at two papers a month
Plus: published papers that claim to use open brain data and probably did not, and what 460 academics told the Chronicle about AI.
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Every past issue. What changed in publishing that week, what it means for your submission, and one thing to try. Every number links its source.
Get it free every MondaySham academies are electing real scientists
Plus: an Elsevier journal retracts 165 papers, and PubMed maps the papers related to yours.
Read issueNearly half of authors did not fully disclose their AI use
Plus: The Lancet's staff walk out on Tuesday, and Science pulls a story by a fake journalist.
Read issueA million-dollar maths problem, and a fight over credit
Plus: OSF stops accepting new projects on 16 November.
Read issueIn 45% of journals, an editor is one of its own top authors
Two studies in a fortnight put numbers on who actually decides. Plus what happened when 30,000 papers each got an AI reviewer.
Read issueThe $103,265 visa fee that skips universities
Everyone is forwarding the number. Almost nobody is forwarding the exemption. Plus NSF pays PhDs to leave the lab.
Read issueNSF's $1.5B, and the fewest grants in 40 years
Also: the NIH score you'll stop seeing, and the case for citing yourself.
Read issueThe one word NIH wants out of your grant
A funding line moved under thousands of researchers, a 120-paper purge, and the reviewer box that quietly lifts your odds.
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