I hope the two guys that keep Google Scholar going as a pet project didn't get laid off. Just as a quiet reminder of the fragile contingency of this core academic service.
@SteveBHolt I think it is not great that those two guys won't let trans people change names, even when many publishers do.
Not that I'm wishing layoffs on anyone, but, this is one of many reasons academia needs to find an alternative to Google Scholar.
@SteveBHolt If Google Scholar goes to the Google Graveyard someday, cis academics will be inconvenienced for like a month until they learn about Internet Archive Scholar, and trans academics will have an unprecedented improvement in their career prospects.