A very nice piece by @aj_boston on the need for dismantling peer reviews into different parts & reviewing a work based on different aspects and specializations! #PeerReview #Publishing linkedin.com/pulse/peer-rev…

Such a poignant account of the life of Douglas Prasher, who first cloned #GFP. These people exist too! Thanks to Venkat Ramaswamy for sharing this! discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad-l…

Happy to share my first preprint from postdoc work with Zhi-Yong Wang Carnegie Plants “Brassinosteroid recruits FERONIA to safeguard cell expansion in Arabidopsis 1/13 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dr. David Sanders See connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/08/1… and osf.io/8dn4w/ 1/2

Wouldn't the implementation of Plan U *in full* proposed by Richard Sever Michael Eisen John Inglis take away most of these problems? I know it's a distant call right now but I'm sure preprinting + public reviewing + curation models would take care of this!

@valentynbez DORA John Innes Centre The Sainsbury Laboratory I disagree. Signing DORA means you should heckle and call upon your colleagues when they use journals as proxy for excellence. Better than nothing. It helps nudge the culture and empowers the next gen to change things.

Pavithran Narayanan 👨🏻‍🔬🌱🧬🔬 Michael Eisen John Inglis In a word: yes. I remain baffled that with 20 years of debate, abundant evidence of problematic business models and their universal global application & a spectrum of opinion on peer review, that funders don't see the public access solution staring them in the face: preprints.

Pavithran Narayanan 👨🏻‍🔬🌱🧬🔬 Michael Eisen John Inglis This of course is Plan U - which by design does not cover peer review but would make all papers free as preprints NOW. We can then spend the next 20 years arguing about how/when/whether/who to pay for formal peer review... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

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Publishing #papers of interest Vs publishing #reviews of interest! eLife - the journal editorial says they don't select interesting papers but those that will generate interesting reviews - interesting, indeed!!!😃😃 #PeerReview #Publishing #Science #eLife elifesciences.org/articles/100571

We all agree that peer review is broken. We often blame reviewers for this but I think editors are a bigger problem. They are universally weak in the decision process: triaging papers with less recognised authors/approaches; bowing to ridiculous/overcritical reviewer demands.

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