Monday Edition
Is peer review at Science sexist?
Also: Attention as a class issue, an anti-AI editorial containing AI links, and a Thiel-backed journalist-rating startup
Monday Edition
In the last 2 weeks, 4 science magazines shut down, sold, or lost funding
Also: Avi Loeb to head White House UFO committee, overworked ERC peer reviewers, Anthropic's push for AI in science, and more from last week
TLDR
AI-generated science is now "good enough"
The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.
Science in Society
Are the Stardew Valley wiki authors scientists?
Science is the generational project of finding out true things about the real world — and that project needs catalogers
Opinion
Is your willpower stronger than a proton beam?
How much are researchers — especially marginalized researchers — expected to endure just to stay in science?
Science Communication
Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience"
Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning
Opinion
True fictions
The storytelling instinct conjures illusions of consensus in science