Monthly archives: July, 2025

Changes to NIH publishing policies

Changes are afoot. Amidst the destructive chaos of the past six months, much is uncertain, but one clear trend is that NIH is going to continue to influence the ecosystem of academic publishing….



More notes on lab data storage

I was walking around an aquarium a couple of days ago and I saw a young person taking long videos of the fish in the tanks. Through the glass, glare and all, in…



Integrity and sales

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When I was an undergraduate, my older sister got me a job: working in the complex carbohydrate chemistry lab of a prolific heparin and heparan sulfate chemist, Bob Linhardt. In…