A bit of a #introduction for all my new followers:

Listen: you're gonna get some posts about fruit flies. I can't stop it, it just happens. They got me good. Plus #Infection #Microbiome #Immunity #Evolution 🦠

But I also follow this #AcademicChatter and #PublishOrPerish conversation closely, and obviously #ScientificPublishing 👍 

 100% there should be an annual "Kariko Award" for the academic who showed the most persistent willpower in science even after they were dropped by their organization ❤️

#NobelPrize #mRNA

https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/111167231180940319 

 The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @733d47dc and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm

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