Imagine if that senior academic got credit for this work? It’s almost like being a co-author but not really. They would get to use their clout to help works they support get published, without taking direct credit. They get to critique it more objectively because their name’s not on it…

It’s a great pipeline from preprint to publication and a great way to foster multidisciplinary collaboration without all the meetings and google docs. It could help bypass arbitrary editor rejections and implicit bias. It was such a good experience, I wonder if there’s a way to make sponsorship work