by Danilyn Rutherford

In October of 1966---60 years ago---Johns Hopkins held a conference that is now widely seen as the hinge point when structuralism gave way to poststructuralism. Jacques Derrida delivered his paper "St...

Undergraduate seminar critically examining attention: how it is measured, valued, and managed in social, cultural, and technical contexts, from driver monitoring to AI.

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences is not a neutral audit; it is a tactical hit job on

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years.

An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.The comp

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years.

Union members at 200-year-old medical journal vote overwhelmingly to walk out over stagnating pay

Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing

About this survey This survey is run by the Open Book Collective - a charity registered in England and Wales (charity no. 1206287). For the purposes of data protection law, the Open Book Collective is...

Stochastic Flocks, Systems From Nowhere and other citable terms for describing AI systems without borrowing from cognition, by Eryk Salvaggio.

Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science

For two decades, the open access movement has been concerned with making knowledge openly available. Now we must take collective responsibility for the infrastructures that make openness sustainable.

Since 1960 there has been a steady decline in the number of children born each year in the United States. As a result, the number of eighteen- to twenty-one-year-old adults will decline from approxim...

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has now archived all its currently 55,730 blog posts as PDF files. These PDF files use the archival PDF/A-3A format and include the full-text HTML blog post with...

Event Reflection: OIPA Symposium 2026 By Kira Hopkins I was fortunate to attend the OIPA symposium held at the University of Sussex on 18th June in person, via a much-appreciated travel bursary fro…

Ghostwritten medical papers are a cornerstone of pharmaceutical marketing. We trace how one manuscript written under the instructions and supervision of opioid ...