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@brembs @deevybee

There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

#ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

#HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars , and more https://diversity.hhmi.org .

Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

@brembs @deevybee

There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

#ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

#HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars , and more https://diversity.hhmi.org .

Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

@brembs @deevybee

There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

#ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

#HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars , and more https://diversity.hhmi.org .

Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

@brembs @deevybee

There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

#ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

#HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars , and more https://diversity.hhmi.org .

Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

@brembs @deevybee

There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

#ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

#HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars , and more https://diversity.hhmi.org .

Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.