Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Transparent peer review, steampunk version:

"In the early nineteenth century, French journals such as the Annals de Chimie sometimes included essays evaluating recent papers released by the Academie des Sciences. In 1831, inspired by those French essays, the English polymath William Whewell (1794–1866) made a proposal to his fellow members of the Royal Society of London: that papers submitted to the Philosophical Transactions should be sent to two Fellows, who would then write a report about the paper. The signed report would be published in the Royal Society’s new journal, the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."

https://ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/19/

Bombeiro Voluntário de Lisboa

@richardsever The need for new forms of research credit/assessment beyond the journal article are a frequent topic in our discussions on the EMBO Podcast, most recently in the episode with Pavel Tomancak

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-the-reviewers/

Once more unto the breach, Richard @richardsever

"Addiction to journal brand and Impact Factor has led us to conflate quality, impact, and trust in research. We now have the opportunity to adopt a new approach with better trust signals, in which judgments of an article’s merits are not made at a single point in time"
#ScientificPublishing #SciComm #Preprints

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002234

Spotted in Chiado, a genre I was not familiar with: the protest azulejo.

"But what makes something hard to discover? I don't mean impossible to discover—you can't see the rings of Saturn without a telescope, for example. I mean cases where it seems like we have everything we need to make a discovery, and yet we take centuries to make it. Why does that happen?"

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/on-the-importance-of-staring-directly?ref=thebrowser.com

'Some Black Southerners, especially those who survived attacks or witnessed the violence firsthand, decided that they couldn’t bear the extreme risk of simply exercising their franchise. Bordewich includes some heart-rending testimony from freedmen who were too terrified to go to the ballot box. As one Black man put it, “I had to deny voting to save myself.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/books/review/klan-war-fergus-bordewich.html

'The long-term persistence of a virus depends on the continual availability of newly susceptible individuals through either birth or the loss of immunity that was originally conferred through prior infection or vaccination. Loss of immunity can result from limited host immune memory or from alterations to the viral genome, often referred to as immune or vaccine ‘escape’ mutations. Thadani and colleagues’ focus is on viral mutations that destabilize the binding of ‘neutralizing’ antibodies to the virus (Fig. 1); however, other modes of immune evasion are possible'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02931-9