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0 pointsbrutusborn2y ago0 comments

I think this is the best direction for science generally: publish everything open and early.

It might be naive, but I would love an environment where everyone self published or arxiv papers/reviews/datasets/models. Then journals could publish the best papers/review preprints.

I imagine a world where journals beg researchers for the rights to publish their paper after seeing an excellent preprint. Or a journal finds an interesting comment on PubPeer and pays for the author to expand it into a more detailed review.

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WanderPanda2y ago

Nice counterfactual! Do you think it is just a path dependency that we didn‘t end up in the (local) minimum that you mention?

brutusbornOP2y ago

Yes I think we will end there someday but are still overcoming a publishing model historically based on physical journals. Open science becoming more common shows that progress is occurring.

It will take a while before academics and systems upgrade skills and infrastructure. When they do, I am excited for enhanced capabilities like continuous science. Imagine a website with a study result with P values which continuously update as data is published and integrated into the existing analysis!

https://towardsdatascience.com/continuous-science-6b5ed833ab...

bckr2y ago

You’ve heard of CI/CD, now we bring you Continuous Experimentation and Publishing

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