Two teams, nearly the same question, nearly the same data—and a revealing difference in what the papers ask the evidence to do

Some initial analyses of AI’s impact on economics writing

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A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Rethinking science: Professor Dr Dr h.c. Klaus M. Schmidt on his Open Science experiences.

Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after the journal’s publisher decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.  In late July, Elsevier to…

The whole thing makes me furious

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

My investigation into alleged plagiarism was undertaken seriously – journalistic enquiries should not be a matter for Scotland Yard, writes THE reporter Jack Grove

A closer look at $3.9 billion in lease buyouts suggests they are bad policy but probably irrelevant to deployment Climate headlines often nudge me toward despair. Heat waves, wildfires, and melting…

It turns out that Cornell had no rule preventing students from skinning bears in a communal dormitory kitchen.  But now they do. (A lot of regulation works like that... keep an eye on AI...)

In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.

Anthropic's CEO warns AI could erase half of entry-level jobs. Victorian England suggests a different possibility.

Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thes…

A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an exper…

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

Mit der geplanten Reform des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes erschwert die Regierung es, staatliches Handeln nachvollziehen zu können. Ein Gastbeitrag von Anne Brorhilker.

I'm not so convinced. An interesting new paper highlights the power and pitfalls of simple stories