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Yeah I mean when I'm talking about coding, I more mean "AI is the GUI for statistics, data manipulations, etc... that companies like SPSS, Graphpad, etc... were founded on." R and other programming languages were created as open source alternatives to paid software. AI lowers the bar to open source.

AI sucks at its marketed purposes... but it can be useful: 1) AI often isn't a tool to learn... it's explicitly there so you *don't* learn. That's ok sometimes. 2) Don't let it do the fun stuff, whatever "fun" is for you! AI's methodology, intrinsically, will never innovate like people can. 2/2

Context makes a big difference. AI for coding assistance? Great. I know the principles, but not the many languages and I'm rubbish at syntax. I explicitly don't want/have time to learn the syntax of various R packages, python, DOS. It's great that AI can filter StackOverflow for the useful bits. 1/2

Think I was thinking of the meRIT approach!

It's true CRediT isn't fully informative. I'd love to see Author Contributions say "In vivo infection work X, Y. In vitro cell work X, Z. Experiment design X, Y, Z." or something. Key point I guess is: I actually find clear author contributions super helpful in filtering a pile of CVs!

@clareblackwood.bsky.social it feels like @thebeaverton.com should know about this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I can confirm. But also, be prepared for the wonkiest measurement logic. And again, I can confirm!

p.s. sad we did not find a chance to properly chat at ExE! I was running around like a headless chicken for most of it. Nice talk and hope the whole @kayla-king.bsky.social lab had a good conference! It was great to see such a presence. 🙂

Sorry to hear this, but it sounds like you had a good support team to help reassure. Spot on with the editors being the root problem. I obv feel there are journals motivated by profit, and journals motivated by science, and their editors behave accordingly (w/ hererogeneity in both). Well done!

I guess an add-on: There's a complex and nuanced conversation to have re: "If a job's worth doing well, it's worth paying someone to treat that job as their priority." Fully volunteer systems of review+edit struggle to operate as efficiently as systems that treat at least some editors as employees.

I mean, I don't disagree!

This is in contrast to APCs paid to for-profits. For-profits operate in a similar mindset. Operating costs can be higher (more attn to marketing etc). Excess revenue beyond operating costs is also distributed not only to communal causes (which does happen), but also to shareholders... 3/3

An APC charges an amount appropriate to ensure operating costs are covered, even in the worst case scenario for the journal. But operating with this abundance of caution means you often have excess revenue. That excess revenue is expected and donated onward, but is never a guarantee! 2/3

I don't know where for each, but they do have transparent reporting of finances. The APC does not reserve a set amount for supporting communal activities beyond publishing. It's more that APCs are set with a safety net mindset. 1/3

As seen for the non-profit @biologists.bsky.social journal Biology Open in their Fast & Fair review program, which charges far less for APCs and yet still can afford to pay reviewers much the same. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Expanded implementation of Fast & Fair paid peer review reduces time to first decision without reducing review quality in a biology journalTraditional peer review is often slowed by delays in identifying willing reviewers and waiting for completed review reports. In a 2024 pilot on the journal Biology Open, we showed that Fast & Fair pee...www.biorxiv.org

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Build data centres in space. Nordspace and Reaction Dynamics can be leveraged to deliver Canadian sovereignty here with solar for energy and no water needed for cooling. Take the best idea no one's figured out and be the first. AI's BS for creativity but increasingly critical for national security.

What's most important is to restore editorial power to journals. Reviewers are supposed to be consulted for their expertise. EDITORS make the decision. You want leadership on bias? Editors have that power. They can ignore biased reviews. They can lead on this front.

That won't solve journals being exclusive (sans the bias, this is arguably the point of journals, not a bug). But with initiatives like @reviewcommons.org and @peercommunityin.bsky.social, it's now possible to get reviewed preprints, even forward those reviews on to various journals.

Yes, but that's the social responsibility that comes with being a large agent. Having to make political judgements on who & what you enable. bioRxiv could enable submitting preprints to fraud sites that sell authorship. It'd be a buck-wild thing to do, but it COULD be done. Also very bad politics.