I was once preliminarily approached by a big publisher about possibly editing a new journal. I asked for money to hire grad students in statistics to review code, findings, and statistical notation (at a cost that wouldn’t make the journal unprofitable). That conversation went nowhere.
What is the purpose of peer review, in your opinion?
Unambiguously the best part of this job is hanging out with smart people like the attendees of this socioecology workshop.
Might be a good time to remind folks of the Project 2025 plan to eliminate NOAA. Madness
Speaking of Cosma Shalizi, his textbook draft is a worthwhile read for social and behavioral scientists who have a solid foundation in statistical analysis: www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/AD...
The first paragraph of a grant proposal is often the most important. Don’t waste it all on background that describes other scholars’ work.
Ah, thanks for reading more carefully than I did. To the broader point, though, there's certainly a case to be made that those funds could be better used to support more research ... and student involvement ... maybe even some new hiring opportunities in a scarce job market.
If the estimates of Butler et al. are anywhere close to accurate, then Springer's annual revenue from author publishing charges substantially exceeds NSF's annual allocated support to the social, behavioral, and economic sciences ($320 million is requested in FY25): new.nsf.gov/about/budget...
"Springer Nature made the most revenue from OA ($589.7 million), followed by Elsevier ($221.4 million), Wiley ($114.3 million), Taylor & Francis ($76.8 million), and Sage ($31.6 million)." direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Abstract. We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Spri...
If the objective of science as a human enterprise is to advance cumulative understandings of the big questions facing humans, presumably no forward-thinking person would devise the current system as the optimal way to meet that objective.