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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 17h

Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next.

The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.

More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...

Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 17h

Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next.

The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared.

More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...

Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 4d

New Blog Post:
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem.

pracheeac.substack.com

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 4d

New Blog Post:
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem.

pracheeac.substack.com

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 5d

😂 love it

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 9d

Yes why would anyone at a frontier research lab know anything about this topic. I guess uninformed takes by people not working on anything related are usually more useful

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 9d

Suit yourself

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 9d

A serious and useful thread with permission to take AGI seriously by @jascha.sohldickstein.com over at X

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes I wonder if you have a spreadsheet with various of your threads/arguments for when you need to surface one of them every 2 days

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 10d

Ordered a shirt that reminds me unambiguously of @richardsever.bsky.social 😂

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 12d

So @mbeisen.bsky.social and I wrote this not just to sway HHMI to stop walking the tightrope to make all parties comfortable and be clear about their trajectory but because it’s in all scientist’s hands to decide what they want to do open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

Open letter to HHMI on their Immediate Access to Research Policy

The following is in response to a letter sent to the HHMI community on September 24, 2025 and refers to HHMI’s new Immediate Access to Research Policy. The original letter appears at the bottom below ...

open.substack.com

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 13d

thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/open-lette...

Open letter to HHMI on their Immediate Access to Research Policy

The following is in response to a letter sent to the HHMI community on September 24, 2025 and refers to HHMI’s new Immediate Access to Research Policy. The original letter appears at the bottom below ...

thescientistpapers.substack.com

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 23d

Right now is the best chance the scientific community has ever had to end the artificial scarcity of academic journals.
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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 23d

The last day for public comment on this topic is Monday, Sept 15. It’s time to unleash science.
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Gift link to op-ed: www.wsj.com/opinion/acad...

NIH Request for Information: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Opinion | Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket

Scientists write and review papers without getting paid, and their institutions have to pay for access.

www.wsj.com

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 23d

Check out my new op-ed urging NIH to disallow taxpayer dollars towards journal publication fees — something both publishers and scientists have played a role in perpetuating.
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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 23d

Right now is the best chance the scientific community has ever had to end the artificial scarcity of academic journals.
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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

Some other considerations that can help:
- technology continues to evolve to facilitate
- better authentication practices
- stronger metadata
- increased connectivity and improved reporting of research/data artifacts upon which papers are based

Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

Yeah definitely it’s problematic but journals & their infinite predatory clones aren’t really solving it. All the more reason to double down on our own scientific judgment & practices than assuming we can trust anyone to tame the fire hose for us

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks Bob!

Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

This! Many people have expert opinions about their specific interest in a paper just from reading it that would be helpful. It needn’t be comprehensive to be exceptionally helpful, especially since people’s expertise can rarely cover the joint expertise of increasingly collaborative work anyway

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

There are a lot of reasons for that that I think need to be fixed to make the comments more discoverable to readers and authors alike

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

Sure this is important but there can be legit reasons for this too. Like the new version doesn’t even contain the part relevant to the critique. And luckily all those versions and associated relevant critiques are accessible

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

I don’t think it’s obvious and feel quite the opposite. Also they’re changing whether we ask for it or not. NIH has already said they’re capping fees. It’s better to be ready

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

And ICYMI, our previous post was about how the best time to fix science was long ago, but the second best time is now

thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/the-moment...

The moment to fix science has arrived

American science is reeling amidst a barrage of grant cancellations, funding delays, attacks on leading universities, cuts in Federal research staff, and the general devaluation of scientific expertis...

thescientistpapers.substack.com

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 29d

Check out the latest from Mike and I on how to be a scientist in a post-journal world
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thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world

When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.

thescientistpapers.substack.com

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