- a call for a general digital preservation of research documents, since many articles have gone awol,
- another tribune on the importance of experimental design (!), with basic recommendations such as running longitudinal studies, using the right statistical models, ensuring that findings are statistically significant and reproducible…
- yet another column on the importance of open-ended, exploratory, research, rather than sticking to confirmatory studies and “thinking of hypothesis testing as the main job of a (social science) researcher¨,
- a reanalysis of the Ryugu microbes brought back to Earth by Hayabusa2, found to be the result of a contamination,
- several entries on the scary prospect of the incoming Trump administration on the NHS, health, reproductive care, &tc.
- a prospective article on the incoming demise of Google scholar when faced with more advanced (AI) alternatives, as well as the scary possibility that AIs may lead to the creation of uncontrollable pathogens, although the call for companies taking responsibility sounds both naïve and insecure, as does the AI Action Summit in Paris next February, as well as a perspective paper on how open AI is far from open,
- and several entries on quantum computing, like AlphaQubit,
“We are interested in the question of how we can build differentially-private algorithms 
A while ago, I was part of a hiring committee for a university abroad and among the applications we found one that was so blatantly fake as to wonder what was the purpose of the person (persons?) behind it. From a massive vita including all rewards in the field, incl. a COPSS presidential award, to publications in all top journals and conferences, with the applicant name added to the list of real authors, to fake affiliations, to a completely 
which I find rather astounding. In the sense that the 
