Posts by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
(DIR) Post #A2hMrs1tD3OnjLxHqC by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2020-12-28T12:28:21Z
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@Stoori Thanks for the follow. Next to Grassroots Review Journals, I also work on a translation project: A server where you can give the URL or DOI of a scientific article and get all available translations as a reply. This would make translations more findable and easier to add on the page about the original article.As you speak such an impressive list of languages I was wondering whether you knew of similar systems or group/people who may be interested. I know Whose Knowledge and AfricArXiv.
(DIR) Post #A2toORghc6k72Gtugi by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-01-04T16:20:42Z
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@freemo @VictorVenema @admin Thanks for contacting. I think I have seen posts by QOTO before, but had not realized it was a STEM server.It is good to have some options. Sounds like we moderate/block stronger to keep FediScience a friendly place where as much people as possible feels welcome.Some of the additional QOTO features are once that would also be useful for us (equations, longer posts). How do you do this? Especially how are these features maintained each time Mastodon is updated?
(DIR) Post #A46zvmCipWI7IuYtLU by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2020-07-12T17:18:05Z
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#introduction This is the account of the Grassroots Review Journal system. We will tweet about #PeerReview & (integrating) #OpenScience tools.Grassroots Review Journals assess the quality of scientific articles & finished manuscripts. Because we only review, we are not limited by copy rights & people do not have to submit their articles to us for it to work.We aim to be a valuable entry into the literature & to destroy the power of the publishers.We need coders, editors & messengers.
(DIR) Post #A4KQHKYoZsT4iiYvlA by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-02-15T20:49:53Z
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Why I chose a copyleft free license for the Grassroots Journals. The publishing industry will loose a few billions of the 10 billion a year they have in revenue.Cory Doctorow: "a Ulysses Pact, named for the passage in the Odyssey in which Ulysses pilots his ship through the sirens' sea, ... protecting himself by lashing himself to the mast...Tech was built on a Ulysses Pact: the irrevocable free software license: once a hacker applies the GPL, they can't unchoose it." https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105736411221279740
(DIR) Post #A4Rh4K3QCvNAiEyt2e by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-02-19T15:58:36Z
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@yaaps That is why I am coding this post-publication peer review system. It should break the power of the scientific publishers.Do you know of other examples?
(DIR) Post #A88bQnppATZSYwujoG by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-09T15:52:42Z
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I had not realized #OpenRepos2021 is also live streaming on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh4SPzHAl-N1dqPPlmHgEzw/videosIn 8 minutes a talk by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories on using #ActivityPub to connect manuscript repositories with peer review systems and journals. ""Notify - The Repository and Services Interoperability Project"The will exchange peer review status (not yet peer review reports). See also:https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/pubfair-version-2-now-available/
(DIR) Post #A8gxqsG9wDZCBxm9Mu by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-26T22:47:59Z
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@freemo Scientific publishing is already decentralized. Publishing decisions are made by journals and for most studies there are many journals to chose from.Especially if you count journals without reputation, which QOTO would (initially) be, there is more than enough choice. Anyone can start a journal. https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/Coding a new journal system is a fair bit of work.
(DIR) Post #A8gyQ8bh9Pfz1mfDQe by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-26T22:54:25Z
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@freemo For me decentralized journals do mean that the system is decentralized.Reputation is important. Otherwise it is just blogging, which is decentralized, but not particularly suitable for scientific progress. But do write up how your system would work and which problem it would solve.
(DIR) Post #A8gzNsMWg2OW1M3P1s by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-26T23:05:09Z
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@freemo In a good system the reputation of the authors is not important. My colleagues will be willing to read my blog posts, but new people and outsiders need the support of the reputation of the journal.The journal and the editors are named and can build up a reputation.Reviewers are normally not named. Requesting them to do so makes it a lot harder to find reviewers because that means writing reviews affects your reputation and which would require putting in 10 times as much work.
(DIR) Post #A8h1mXOfxjh696wlWK by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-26T23:32:05Z
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@freemo Peer review helping outsiders is explained here in more detail. It adds up. http://variable-variability.blogspot.com/2014/01/peer-review-helps-fringe-ideas-gain.htmlNormally an editor, not the journal decides on which manuscripts are published and who becomes reviewer. The editor-in-chief ("journal"?) typically decides which editor does which manuscript. The peer reviewers are advisors of the editor, but do not decide.Publishing the peer review reports is an idea I like and only the arguments should count. The editor as the decider is known.
(DIR) Post #A8h34z4FvF8t8DktCS by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-26T23:46:38Z
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@freemo Just start you own journal if you prefer editors and reviewers who have less expertise. The consumer can decide to read it.Climate "skeptics" have been there before and have started something that looks like a scientific journal to fool the public and non-science journalists. http://variable-variability.blogspot.com/2014/02/global-warming-solved-in-open-peer.htmlInterestingly I just got a follow by some Social Darwinian COVID deception account. The same MO as the climate "skeptics", just another way to kill people.
(DIR) Post #A8h6MGvX4hEzJ4btTc by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-27T00:23:21Z
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@freemo You wrote: "Right, the point here is there is a centralized group (in this case the editors and peer reviewers collectively) who decide reputations and what passes and what doesnt, and generally obscures the peer-review process publicly."That problem is solved by starting you own journal in the decentralized system we have. If quality of science mattered we would not have climate "skeptics", anti-vaxxers or COVID deniers. Quality is not a good predictor of their memes.
(DIR) Post #A8h7sGjJRWMTuriQYi by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-27T00:40:22Z
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@freemo Everyone can start a journal, not just you. So it is perfectly decentralized.If you start your own journal or in some decentralized system contribute to the quality of the scientific literature less frequently, it is (initially) hard to judge whether you do it well. Bribes would thus be more effective.Trust in science is high & science is becoming more open. The world is increasingly unequal and authoritarian and authoritarians do not like their power being constrained by reality.
(DIR) Post #A8iOC8nsPoyNY7J9pg by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-06-27T15:17:57Z
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@freemo If that was what you were proposing, then I like it. 😎 But it is not just another journal (it does not publish, it only reviews). It is a journal-independent review. Starting a new journal (system) will not break the power of the publishers.It has editors, who moderate the debate. Named journals and named editors who build up a reputation and make it possible to have anonymous comments without becoming YouTube comments.It is better for science by being post-publication peer review.
(DIR) Post #AIAPBhYABIVjwGiPIW by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-03-29T12:46:57Z
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From Reddit."Peer Review Week 2020: Insights into Building Trust in Peer Review". Authored by people from Asian Council of Science Editors and GlaxoSmithKline. An overview of the event and the "interesting" suggestion to have journals control preprinting. http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/pjbs/2020/1496-1499.pdf https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/mfo0r7/peer_review_week_2020_insights_into_building/?utm_source=ifttt
(DIR) Post #AIAPBjTH2RmvtgRWxE by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-03-29T14:34:29Z
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@yaaps Yes, preprints are a threat to the monopoly profits of the scientific publishing industry.Violence against Asians is mainly an American thing, due to Trump's rhetoric, would be my impression. The article was written by people who live in Asia, I had not noticed them using violence as an argument. I am sure, others would be happy to do so.Preprints are supposed to be not reviewed. That is the innovation. That already makes it interesting to include them in a piece on peer review. 1/2
(DIR) Post #AIAPBkeIewCbYAbqmO by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-03-31T14:52:39Z
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@yaaps The way you use "liberal" here is again an American construct.The idea that people would not dare to disagree with non-white people is an American trope spread by the elite that opposite to the truth. In actual fact it is the people in power that people are hesitant about attacking.As far as I can judge centralizing preprints would make it more urgent to take down the publishers, but not affect post-publication review, nor would it affect SciHub, which is about published papers.
(DIR) Post #AIAPBlGwLH6vU0gi0X by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2021-03-29T14:37:19Z
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@yaaps To be fair, some review is done before preprints are published.In medical repositories they check to ensure the information in them, if wrongly seen as reliable scientific information, would not lead to public health problems. And the Lancet recently retracted a preprint, which I did not know was possible. So unfortunately we can no longer talk about preprints in medicine as not being reviewed. That would have made it easier to tell journalists to be careful writing about them. 2/2
(DIR) Post #AKcOWuY1dUrtGmq59U by GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org
2022-06-18T09:53:37Z
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@11backslashes They are a thing. https://github.com/hng/tech-coops