I would love to have more papers freely published in the open, but it doesn’t seem like it’s worth building this out on Nostr yet. There are lots of other projects working on this and we can always import uploaded papers from there. I’m afraid if someone put a bunch of work into building this out they’d be disappointed with how few ppl end up using it. With that being said, if this is something that you’re motivated to do, don’t let me stop you!

I have thought about this some, I have been a paper review coordinator for a journal before and it is a mess. The incentive part is tricky, but possible!

Scientific papers + Nostr Highlights & Wiki's 😍

My father saw the birth of the web, in his office. I remember how excited he was, and how I couldn’t understand his excitement.

When I talked to him about nostr, I could see some of the same excitement. To them back then it was mainly about sharing the science, the data, the ongoing conversation.

They can see they have failed.

Pre-prints (long form notes) used to be sent by mail to libraries (relays) so that each community of scientists could communicate with the others. These pre-print would be either celebrated, constructively criticized, or destroyed by your peers.

Finally someone understands me

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Card carrying scientist willing to provide input but from what I heard on his interview TFTC, blockchain and reviewer payments were posed as solutions to fix the boys club of publishers and improve fairness of reviews and this would do neither imo.

I am for public data sets that are archived and uncensorable, but these are gigantic file sizes in many cases, and annotation of things like images is a nightmare or requires proprietary software in many cases. And then there is search and version history 😮‍💨

Scihub, arxiv, PLOS/PeerJ are doing a pretty good job at fighting some problems in science but the problem blockchain solves needs to be honed substantially. Censorship is a different problem from review is a different problem from public communication.

Isn't this about decentralized storage first?

I mean create a torrent, seed it, let like minded people seed it. And use nostr for magnet links, description, discovery and discussion.

Now, someone could probably just make it all one convenient packadge so the users don't have to think about it all and just use an app/website.

I ventured to some sci paper website and they use torrent too, but in huge multi TB sized blocks. Not sure if that's optimal.

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No probs. Distributed systems are a piece of cake, we'll quickly hack this together in an afternoon.

Is Kevin on nostr?

Any thoughts on best process for long form posts to nostr currently? The hashtags are great but a subject search method of finding and engaging in specific topics is required with some way to assist navigating to related topics for deep dives or contextualisation.

If you build the tools, I'll bring the people. At the moment I'm in the start up phase of a nostr community group at the Royal Institute of Science #KTH in Stockholm Sweden.

I'm having a lecture planned, and we may get some resources to have the university run a Relay.

The plan is to engage both campus student sub communities and the faculty & Uni operations.

The most important tools I'm researching now are things similar to facebook events, discord groupchats and general noticeboards for info. Plz. link me relevant resources on this :)

Exciting work, that I think is as a good start as any! Internet grew and developed at universities, nostr can traverse these "pastures" as well.

I'll get back to #nostr on this if any external funding is needed, and people are interested in supporting such efforts.

Bret & Eric Weinstein

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