I'd prefer to not say for fearing of getting too close to doxxing, but suffice to say in a well-known journal like any other that imposes the exact same fees, conditions and restrictions.
Sci-hub is great step in the right direction, but it's still downstream of the publishers.
The publishing monopoly still has all the power.
Brb going for a dive
That sounds very tiresome
Trending/not trending is not really relevant for me since the impact of research can take years/decades to pop off. Yoshua Bengio is a great example of this. Nobody cared about all the fundamental ML algorithms he was coming up with in the 1990s/2000s until deep learning took off in early 2010s and those old publications were suddenly getting cited thousands of times a year.
The transparency and openess that comes with searchability and possibility for public discussion are much more interesting to me. They go hand-in-hand.
I really hope so. I'll be doing my part.
A big drag on this evolution will likely come from the parasitic science publishing industry, but probably also from funding agencies, and even the researchers themselves to an extent. The publishing monopoloy gets fat margins for doing essentially nothing aside from hosting. They do none of the research/validation/peer review/advocating. Funding agencies will complain that they don't have any other way to decide which research to fund because they rely so heavily on manufactured metrics by the publishing industry. Academics might be reluctant to change when their careers are on the line.
Surely you've thought about these issues before, so I'm curious to hear what you think.
Agreed. Basically any academic I interact with has at one time or another complained about the issues with the current paradigm for disseminating scientific work. I'm not talking about politically charged research, just genuine scientists in apolitical fields trying to push the boundaries of knowledge.
Content through nostr is the kind of thing they subconsciously know they need but they just haven't seen the potential for nostr yet.
You folks are working on a ton of great stuff. This is the future I want to see.
I hear that. Hard to imagine something more than a PDF when we've had 500+ years of printing press bias and influence from incumbents on how users can/should interact with content. In my own field of work, the scienctific publishing monopoly is especially guilty of this.
I mean, it's pretty awesome that you contributed to such a landmark project.
Okay I see what you mean. To me the gold standard really is just plaintext. For scientific reporting, you can mark up reports with simple tools like asciidoc. So now you have a format-agnostic presentation that can be consumed any way you like, transmitted through essentially anything you like, for example Nostr or whatever offline reader.
Quite the opposite from saying "this is the (probably DRM'd) format, it has text embedded, and you can only use X/Y/Z (probably locked/closed/restricted) app to consume it".
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by alternative to a portable format
Sequencing has come a long way since then. You can sequence the human genome with a USB-connected device that's no bigger than a raspberry pi.
Anyway, I'll be sure to follow the latest from the project.
Nice! As in, the Human Genome Project from the early 2000s?
This is absolutely an amazing mission. As an academic, I despise PDFs. They're just a terrible medium for communicating scientific work, not to mention the fact that malware can be stuffed into them. It's frustrating to see my published research essentially get handicapped/walled off of any kind of novel and innovative interaction with the content.
Would have been a handy tool to have during my physics undergrad. But at the same time, things were just harder so I had to force myself that much more and it stuck with me.
Yes, always reliable producers, great fruit, don't need much care, they can take a beating, easy to propagate and also easy to control. What's not to like?
Sane defaults according to the devs, so I get their reference point.