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by pizza_boy 6y ago
I hope this comes across as helpful and not one-upmanship: it is natural to think that having a child is like many of the other things you're used to in life where you can control the outcome. That can lead to you worrying about and op
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by pizza_boy 7y ago
I don't have a problem with the comments. They're illuminating under a close reading. The role of CEO is high status and highly desirable. I think it's safe to assume most readers of this site have coveted it from time to tim
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by pizza_boy 9y ago
There may be an intersection between fabricated research and fraudulently reviewed research but I understand that at least some of the papers retracted for reviewer fraud could have been published legitimately. Grandparent has it right. Thi
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by pizza_boy 9y ago
You might be interested in the Publons Academy [1] -- which we are launching tomorrow -- and some of the other tools we've built to improve the review process (e.g., more trustworthy contact methods) and formally recognise reviewers. I
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by pizza_boy 10y ago
Interesting writeup. We saw this coming on Publons: https://publons.com/p/518732/
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by pizza_boy 12y ago
With Publons.com ( https://publons.com ) we have different philosophy: the more transparency we can bring to the review process, the better. At the same time we recognise that both blind and double-blind peer review play an import
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by pizza_boy 12y ago
This is one of the problems we're trying to solve with Publons.com. We help reviewers to build an officially verified record of past reviews (which is great when it comes to getting tenure). Editors can then use those records to vett c
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by pizza_boy 12y ago
Absolutely agree. I just pledged. Thanks Tom.
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by pizza_boy 12y ago
Very similar to CloudCannon ( http://cloudcannon.com/ )
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Show HN: Rewards for peer review(publons.com)
3 points by pizza_boy 12y ago|0 comments
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What it's like to raise money(blog.preston.co.nz)
7 points by pizza_boy 12y ago|0 comments
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by pizza_boy 12y ago
I absolutely agree with Doug. The key is prestige. Our approach to that is to turn peer review itself into a measurable research output -- see our recent partnership with PeerJ for an example ( http://blog.publons.com/post&#x
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by pizza_boy 12y ago
Hi Doug. Cool graphic. I'm one of the founders of https://publons.com . Our mission is to speed up academic publishing by turning peer review into a measurable research output. Would love to take you up on your offer to meet
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by pizza_boy 13y ago
The key is to start developing better ways to measure researcher productivity. That's where all the different forms of altmetrics come in. For us (Publons.com) we're using peer review itself to generate article level metrics (and
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by pizza_boy 13y ago
> it would also give some recognition to the work that goes into reviewing a paper I think you're spot on with this comment. That's exactly what we're building at publons.com. Check it out.
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by pizza_boy 13y ago
ImpactStory monitors github, which is pretty cool. Example: http://impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
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by pizza_boy 13y ago
I've said as much in the article comments, but it's worth repeating here: there's really no surprise that this sort of thing happens when more than a million articles are published every year. There is so much pressure on res
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by pizza_boy 13y ago
You're partially correct. I'd say that we tend to adopt the successful cultural adaptations of our ancestors and discard the others. In other words, when comparing an ancient society to one descended from it, I'd expect the &
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by pizza_boy 13y ago
It's not immediately obvious there's anything new or interesting in there: how is this heuristic different to a classic Hansonian bet [1]? One potential advantage is that having "skin in the game" has a more positive con
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by pizza_boy 14y ago
Check out ponoko ( http://www.ponoko.com/ ).
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by pizza_boy 14y ago
Nice paper; probably cooler than the FTL neutrino result from last year. If you're a physicist then you might like to review, rate, or discuss it on publons: http://publons.com/publon/2406/review/ Publons is in beta at the moment, so plea
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by pizza_boy 15y ago
In economics a cost or benefit that is difficult to charge for is known as an externality. The pleasant smell of food might be a positive externality; second hand smoke a negative. Ronald Coase (who also produced The Nature of the Firm) did
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by pizza_boy 16y ago
> And then the university will sponsor my visa? That would be the hope. I guess that more related your startup is to a field of research at UCB the better your chances. > What kind of visa would that be then? J1, although possib
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by pizza_boy 16y ago
I'm in exactly the same position as you. If you're at UCB then perhaps you can frame your startup as a spinoff company, which universities love. You'd be trading capital for a visa. That's the best idea I have right now. Otherwise there's a