All in this edition of blog buzz.

• Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job piece on Medium outlines the changes in Google’s preservation mission over the years and highlights the work the Internet Archive has been doing.  A later post responds with a funny (and informative) post from Jessamyn West called, Google’s Slow Fade with Librarians.

• Last week one of our colleagues moved on to an exciting new position at Rutgers. In celebration and thanks to Sarah Jewell, I’m happy to share her recently published poem which you can find here! Continue reading →

A big merger is announced in publishing, and a nice explanation of the misinterpretations of that article on random mutations and cancer from Science.  Also, some thoughts on artificial intelligence that make you go hmm, and more…

• Susan Gubar’s latest post; Living with cancer: Coming to Terms discusses the limited language surrounding cancer and has been getting some well deserved attention on social media.
• There is a big merger on the horizon in scientific publishing. It was announced on January 15 that pending approval, Nature’s parent company (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) will essentially bring together Springer and Scientific American. The story was covered by Reuters, The NY Times, etc. Here is an item from Nature News and this is what the Springer site has to offer. I am especially interested to see how this unfolds and what it will mean for the scientific community as touched on in TeleRead.

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A big announcement for 23andMe, a new antibiotic in development appears promising, a thoughtful discussion on the cost of drugs, and more in this round of Blog Buzz.

• In Forbes, Matthew Herper reports, Surprise! With $60 Million Genentech Deal 23andMe has a Business Plan.
• The creation of a possible new antibiotic developed in a novel way has been published in Nature….Derek Lowe weighs in on his blog In the Pipeline
• Responses to the item about cancer being “random” recently published in Science, this one from the Times by Denise Grady includes chats with experts including MSK’s Dr. Offit. Bob O’Hara and GrrlScientist responded in The Guardian to some sloppy news reports about the paper.

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