#paywalled

From WSJ: "Musk Ordered #Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided #Ukraine." https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-dbc49193 (#paywalled)

Now waiting for reporters to ask #Trump and #Hegseth whether they gave #Musk a surreptitious green light, and if not, why the US military pays for a "military-grade version of Starlink" (i.e. #Starshield) that a civilian can turn off at will, and what charges the US might bring against a civilian who did so.

Three possible charges:

1. Interference with the Operation of a Satellite (18 USC § 1367)
2. Violation of the Logan Act (18 USC § 953)
3. Breach of defense procurement contracts

#USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The Journal of Cardiac Failure switched from single-blind to double-blind peer review to increase the number of its women authors. Three years later it reports the results. https://onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-9164(24)00378-6/abstract (#paywalled) "The proportion of women first authors increased from 24% in Era 1 to 34% in Era 2 to 39% in Era 3 while the percentage of women authors serving in a senior authorship role remained fairly stable over time around 21-22%."

Update. In #EasternEurope "the highest percentage of female authored articles was in journals from #Slovenia (mean = 47.28%) and a lowest in journals from #Azerbaijan (mean = 29.30%)." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10737547 (#paywalled) #gender

Update. New study: "Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this #gender gap varies between disciplines." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00021-6 (#paywalled)

Update. "Women are markedly underrepresented among authors of retracted publications, particularly in cases involving multiple retractions." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335059 The article is #OpenAccess. But on the day of publication, this #paywalled comment by Jenna Ahart appeared in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03796-w

Update. A letter to the editor about a study I posted to this thread 11/23/25: "The suggestion that [the lower #retraction rate for women] is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose bolder ideas and lead larger and more dynamic teams than do female researchers implies that male scientists are better at science. As female scientists, our lived experience points to alternative explanations: elevated rigour and scientific integrity by female scientists or more critical peer review of female-led manuscripts." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00120-y (#paywalled) #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

Alright my fellow librerians, I am *just* seeing if #patreon treats a shop item specially in terms of putting it in front of lots of people and I will report back. So sorry about this apparently $5 lisp clim tutorial. I will put the org on my codeberg in a second secretly too. Remember the goal is to exfiltrate lisp community members from patreon into the show and we are being pragmatic because of how bad things are. #lisp #clim #paywalled https://www.patreon.com/screwlisp/posts/lisp-interface-5-167878977?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link https://codeberg.org/screwlisp/secret-exclusive-git

"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US." https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion (#paywalled) "The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge." Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/*#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This." https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/ (#paywalled) "The culprit is not the old wave of scraper bots and search crawlers, but agentic AI… #AgenticAI…made up just 1.7% of automated traffic at the start of last year. By the end of 2025 that category had grown 8,000%." #AI #Bots