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Roundup of missed stories – February 8, 2016
Developments I'd have liked to cover but haven't been able to for lack of time.
open-access publishing
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Roundup of missed stories - May 23, 2015
I've missed writing/commenting on so many science papers/articles in the two weeks following the launch of The Wire. The concepts in many of them would've made fun explainers, some required a takedown or two, and one had surprising ethical and philosophical implications. I think
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Predatory publishing, vulnerable prey
On December 29, the International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICRIEST) is kicked off in Pune. It’s not a very well-known conference, but might as well have been for all the wrong reasons. On December 16 and 20, Navin Kabra, from Pune, submitted two papers