Scientific publishing needs to change. HHMI President Erin O'Shea and Bodo Stern argue that the incentives are misaligned. Researchers should be evaluated on what they choose to share, not what journals select. Proud that HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social is leading the way. Pre-Print: bit.ly/4sDCCsu
An important new preprint highlighting HHMI’s vision for author-led publishing, where authors are evaluated based on research they share on their own terms. Proud to be a part of the Open Science team, where we work toward a more open & equitable science ecosystem every day!
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Celebrating five (yes, 5!) #HHMIInvestigators named to the '25 class of @aaas.org Fellows — a distinction recognizing those work advances science & its impact on society. Please join us in congratulating David Baker, Michael Laub, Christopher Lima, David Pagliarini, & Gabriel Victora: bit.ly/4sAt81M
New @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grants: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education.
Up to $500,000 for orgs focused on helping remove obstacles for undergraduates who want to pursue advanced STEM degrees.
Deadline is June 1. Please share & apply if this is you! sloan.org/programs/hig...
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My team + @biointeractive.bsky.social helped shape the scripts for two @thecrashcourse.bsky.social Scientific Thinking episodes – a full-circle moment contributing to a channel that helped make me a scientist!
Ep 4, peer review: youtu.be/qsgjKBvxnYA
Ep 5, scientific consensus: youtu.be/9wSAeV0xX0M
DORA has launched an introductory course on responsible research assessment! 🤩
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SciShow Field Trips with HHMI Investigator Beth Stevens
What if the answers to Alzheimer’s & schizophrenia lie in glia, not neurons? Join “SciShow Field Trips” & our own Tangled Bank Studios inside #HHMIInvestigator Beth Stevens' lab to see how these long-ignored brain cells may help us better understand neurological diseases: bit.ly/4kjqU3R.
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
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"SciShow Field Trips" & our own Tangled Bank Studios take you inside the lab of HHMI Investigator Feng Zhang. Known for engineering CRISPR-Cas9 for use in human cells, his next breakthrough could reach hard-to-access cells associated with conditions like ALS & Huntington's: bit.ly/49JomIt
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Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.
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Also agreed! If authors are deciding when to publish, as they are in the case of preprints, there is likely also room to decide that certain papers/outputs don’t need formal peer review. Ideally there would be room for both transparent peer review and standalone outputs that don’t need that process.
Whether those peer review coordinators should be journals, preprint review services, or something else...is a question that can only be answered with broader conversations. But the conversation starts with the question of how we ensure we aren't only seeing peer reviews of pre-curated content.
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A more transparent model might make all outputs accessible (i.e., open access articles, preprints) while also having service providers that coordinate peer review and ensure the outputs of peer review (i.e., reviews, author responses) are made accessible. More science discourse out in the open.
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eLife is a good step, but they still only publish what they review.
There's an opportunity to consider whether peer review and curation for publishing must be linked. Preprints open doors to transparent review without curation, but this means thinking differently about how review occurs.
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Agreed! No intent to diminish the role of journals as a coordinator of peer review.
But when the coordinators of peer review are also the deciders of which papers (and, therefore, which peer reviews) get seen, we end up with biased curation - no insight into what is reviewed but not published.
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