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What can we do about the tendency of research articles to get their big flash of publicity before undergoing peer review?

cryptonector 1y ago
We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. We should also demand publication of failures -- it's ok to fail, but only if you publish about the failure. The whole publish-or-perish culture is a disaster that incentivizes cheating. It should be considered just as valuable to have a few grad students working on replication as on original research, and that should not hurt the students' prospects.
- zer00eyz 1y ago
  > We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. This should be the work of grad students, not cranking out another paper or slaving for professors. > We should also demand publication of failures -- it's ok to fail, but only if you publish about the failure. I really want to have a journal that just publishes interesting duds. Someone else might look at your methodology and get their own idea.
  - cryptonector 1y ago
    > > We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. > This should be the work of grad students, not cranking out another paper or slaving for professors. But the professors need to arrange for this.
    - adrianN 1y ago
      The people paying the professors need to arrange for this
      - cryptonector 1y ago
        Often that's us.
kazinator 1y ago
Stop reading non-peer-reviewed stuff and sharing links to it?
nudgeOrnurture 1y ago
an active, public pre-review discussion. we nurture critical thinking before the nudge. some charismatic, intelligent dude or dudette or couple with a curious but rather uneducated mind inviting grad students and scientists to discuss studies and pre-prints and so on, constantly babbling scientifically more or less correct nonsense but getting semantically corrected by the guests or something ... ... so viewers can feel "smartypants" and or relate and learn. I'm sure there's podcasts but I don't listen to podcasts.

cryptonector 1y ago

We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. We should also demand publication of failures -- it's ok to fail, but only if you publish about the failure. The whole publish-or-perish culture is a disaster that incentivizes cheating. It should be considered just as valuable to have a few grad students working on replication as on original research, and that should not hurt the students' prospects.

zer00eyz 1y ago
> We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. This should be the work of grad students, not cranking out another paper or slaving for professors. > We should also demand publication of failures -- it's ok to fail, but only if you publish about the failure. I really want to have a journal that just publishes interesting duds. Someone else might look at your methodology and get their own idea.
- cryptonector 1y ago
  > > We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. > This should be the work of grad students, not cranking out another paper or slaving for professors. But the professors need to arrange for this.
  - adrianN 1y ago
    The people paying the professors need to arrange for this
    - cryptonector 1y ago
      Often that's us.

kazinator 1y ago

Stop reading non-peer-reviewed stuff and sharing links to it?

nudgeOrnurture 1y ago

an active, public pre-review discussion. we nurture critical thinking before the nudge. some charismatic, intelligent dude or dudette or couple with a curious but rather uneducated mind inviting grad students and scientists to discuss studies and pre-prints and so on, constantly babbling scientifically more or less correct nonsense but getting semantically corrected by the guests or something ... ... so viewers can feel "smartypants" and or relate and learn. I'm sure there's podcasts but I don't listen to podcasts.