Today, we dive into a few aspects of the imposition of tech thinking into the scientific endeavor, including business models, AI, accidental certifications, and new NIH policies. 

Show Notes

Jessica Knurick post: https://drjessicaknurick.substack.com/p/trust-the-science-doesnt-mean-what

Comet Plus: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet-plus

"Scholarly Kitchen" guest post by Mike Olson: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/guest-post-beyond-classification-the-human-cost-of-library-and-information-labor-under-digital-capitalism/

Clay Shirky on the return of the Blue Books: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/culture/ai-chatgpt-college-cheating-medieval.html

Pygmy sea horses: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/science/evolution-genetics-seahorses.html

Video of pygmy sea horses (NatGeo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4q3sBuCkRQ

Better bee food to thwart colony collapse: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073807.htm

See our book cover: https://www.the-geyser.com/how-the-internet-disrupted-science/ 

Provoke the Truth (pod music) — https://provokethetruth.net/ 

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