How to be a scientist in a post-journal world

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sito42 · 22m ago

> The defining - and best - feature of preprint servers is that they do not try to litigate the rigor of the science in a paper, or try to decide whether it will ultimately prove important, before posting it. They just post it. We should embrace this, and fight the temptation to reinstate gatekeeping criteria and systems that disempower authors without providing any value.

jleyank · 15m ago

S/N reduction. Without this, it will be impossible to wade through the flood of papers. Too easy to hemmorage them out anymore.

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How to be a scientist in a post-journal world

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