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There are good political/social reasons for wanting SARS-CoV-2 to have entered humans directly from animals, and many pushing the WIV lab accident hypothesis have nefarious intent. I am nonetheless surprised
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The real reason there is so much objection to idea of permuting equal co-authors is not, as so many are saying, the sanctity of the bibliographic record must be preserved.
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why do people treat current peer review system as if it was optimized to help authors and advance science when its primary features - pre-publication review by 2-3 people, binary
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I understand the concern - in a world where scientists are judged on the basis of journal citations, anything that might interfere with getting one is scary. But these concerns
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if there's any good to come from $10K APCs at Nature and Cell, it's that they are finally opening peoples' eyes to the absurd economics of journals, which they conveniently
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I get that everyone wants to read and publish everything for free - and they should be able to: all transaction costs are barriers to participation. But we need actual
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I am excited to announce today that @eLife is transitioning to a new model based on author-driven publishing (preprints) and public post-publication peer review and curationhttps://elifesciences.org/articles/64910?utm_source=twitter&utm
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While we talk about the future of science publishing, we need to also have a conversation about how to fund it. The problems with the subscription model is obvious and
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A core problem in science publishing today is that we have a system where the complex, multidimensional assessment of the rigor, validity, utility, audience and impact of a work that
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The media are, rightly, taking a lot of heat for spreading false fears about COVID-19 immunity. But's its worth tracing the origins of this particular case back to where it
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Since the dawn of the Internet, it has been clear that we need and have the opportunity to build a system of scholarly communication free of limitations of print: a
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