Unfortunately weâve had to postpone the talk. New date/time to follow soon, apologies
đ¨ Talk alert đ¨ Livestream with the Active Inference Institute on my theory of mental gravity. Thursday 22nd Feb at UTC 19:00. Panel includes @annaciaunica.bsky.social and Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
âHigh fullutentâ is so lowfalutin that it went through the Earth and became highfalutin on the other side #downtoearth#grounded
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Itâs 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 thereâs a way to make sponsorship work
Imagine if that senior academic got credit for this work? Itâs 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 nameâs not on itâŚ
12 months and three substantial revisions later, the paper has been accepted and is easily the best paper Iâve ever written because of the way the âsponsorâ critiques the paper based on their interest in the material and familiarity with the journal. There was also a blind reviewerâŚ
A senior academic from a completely different field randomly found a preprint of mine last year and suggested I work up a version for the top journal in their discipline. They said to mention to the editor that they support the submission, and also offered to review the paperâŚ
Have we considered a sponsor-based peer-review system? Based on a recent experience, I think it could work well, especially for early career academics like me. It could also help more senior academics get recognition for informal mentoring and reviewing. Hereâs what happenedâŚ