IF providing peer reviewed data and facts makes me a troll, I'll be a troll every day until I die!

See link here for further questions:
https://4bear.com/@AzureCerulean/111720509569669962

#FACTS #PeerReview #Troll

We’ve decided to leave X (Twitter). We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives, and we want to strategically use our resources to promote open scholarship and peer review on other platforms. 🧵 (1/5)

#OpenScholarship #OpenResearch #PeerReview

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How I reject most Elsevier review requests https://ideophone.org/how-i-reject-most-elsevier-review-requests/

For years now, I have responsed to review requests from Elsevier journals with a friendly explanation of why I cannot in good conscience devote my free labour to their for-profit venture. I always include an out: make some work in the same journal available in open access. Somehow they always find this isn't possible 🤷

#academia #AcademicChatter #peerreview

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I really love this description of a retracted study: not only does it explain what was retracted (turns out men don't generally divorce their sick wives), but also it covers what the error was (a coding problem treated people who left the study as divorced) how it all went down (someone tried to replicate, asked for data and didn't get the same analysis. Contacted the authors and they were horrified and immediately worked to retract).

It's a really nice story of why replication matters and how to be good at science. This is how I was taught science should work, but I rarely come across such good retrospectives.

https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-reported-study-suggesting-divorce-is-more-likely-when-wives-fall-ill-gets-axed/

#science #PeerReview

Great piece of work. The ranking of grants does not differ between reviewers, who only saw the abstract, and those, who received the full application. This should give us a lot to think about...
#academia #PeerReview

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-04968-7

❇️ Explore our data! ❇️

We were unable to release our data alongside our preprint. But we've figured out a workaround! 😀

We've now got a web app you can load to explore our data. Find out how your journal/publisher of interest looks in our dataset! Compare groups!

Customizable plots to see how publishers/journals compare. This includes publishers we didn't highlight in the preprint.

https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/app_announcement/

#SciPub #OpenAccess #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AcademicChatter 1/n

One thing that sucks about #PeerReview being so broken and a vector of domination rather that cooperation is that, in the best case, they can be skillshares as much as anything else. In some code reviews I have given and received, I have taught and learned how to do things that I or the other person wished they knew how to do, but didnt.

That literally cant happen in the traditional model of review, where reviews are strict, terse, and noninteractive. Traditional review also happens way too late, when all the projected work is done. Collaborative, open, early review literally inverts the dreaded "damn reviewers want us to do infinity more experiments" dynamic. Instead, wouldnt it be lovely if during or even before you do an experiment, having a designated person to be like "hey have you thought about doing it this way? If not i can show you how"

The adversarial system forces you into a position where you have to defend your approach as The Correct One and any change in your Genius Tier experimental design must be only to validate the basic findings of the original design. Reviewers cannot be considered as collaborators, and thus have little incentive to review with any other spirit than "gatekeeper of science."

If instead we adopted some lessons from open source and thought of some parts of reviews as "pull requests" - where fixing a bug is somewhat the responsibility of the person who thinks it should be done differently, but then they also get credit for that work in the same way that the original authors do, we could
a) share techniques and knowledge between labs in a more systematic way,
b) have better outcomes from moving beyond the sole genius model of science,
c) avoid a ton of experimental waste from either unnecessary extra experiments or improperly done original experiments,
d) build a system of reviewing that actually rewards reviewers for being collegial and cooperative

Hey, anyone who knows #Python and #GWAS wants to help me with a review of a paper for JOSS?

#science #PeerReview #genetics #OpenSource

The highlight of peer review research in 2023 was the biggest trial yet of naming authors (or not) in peer review.

The authors concluded that their trial provides strong evidence "double-blind review" substantially reduces prestige bias.

I don't have as much confidence in that result though. In my new @PLOS post, I explain why - and why, even with this big trial, we're still a long way from clarity....

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/12/31/unpacking-the-biggest-trial-yet-of-naming-authors-in-peer-review/

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#PeerReview #AcademicChatter #Science

Would you #peerReview a #musical micro-#RPG?

Unpaid help, alas. You'll get an in-file credit for the feedback. Publication itself will be free.

It might be helpful if you know what a peer review is, :) but you don't need to be a credentialed academic – it will just be fun if you can pose as one!

The game was tested. It's before formatting (6 A4s, ~2k words). Takes ~15 min. to play but feedback from reading is enough for the authors.

DM or reply please. :)

#tabletopgames #ttrpgs #amWriting

#introduction

I fight for the users.

I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.

I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.

I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.

I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.

I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.

I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.

I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.

I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.

I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.

I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.

I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).

I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.

I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.

I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.

I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.

Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we named Tyoma.

I'm currently working at Apple on the Vision Pro headset team.

#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #apple #visionpro

We're looking to grow the JOSS editorial team – please share far and wide!
https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2023/10/call-for-editors

#opensource #OpenScience #PeerReview