From my bsky feed - two consecutive posts. Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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@neuralreckoning I'm just glad to know all I need to publish my next paper is to look for missing values and runctitional features in my data
@neuralreckoning "Historical medical frymblal" is a very important point. 😂
@neuralreckoning oooh what's the 2nd article? 👀
(I know, that's not the point of your post but I'm already convinced that Nature Publishing Group sucks and that #eLife is better 😊 )
@elduvelle follow this thread because the commentary is almost as interesting as the paper (which also looks very cool btw):
https://bsky.app/profile/behrenstimb.bsky.social/post/3m6i6v3ydf22n
The paper:
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition", Luo et al. 2025
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/99047v2
Quite the poster child for why at @eLife we support publishing papers that we consider important and yet nonetheless label as incomplete: the questions are worth asking, the discussion has to happen, the suggested experiments need to be voiced out and aired, to prompt someone to take them on to the lab.
@albertcardona @elduvelle @eLife yes I'm so glad to see it! So far most eLife papers just looked like normal journal papers, but this shows what the new model can do. Brilliant stuff.
@neuralreckoning @elduvelle @eLife
Can't agree more. Scientific publications are the means for scientists to talk to each other in a formalised way, and not at all as a way to accrue points towards career advancement or funding. Let's retake that original purpose from the choking grasp of the bean counters.
@neuralreckoning ooh.. Just seeing the title I remember having a look at the preprint some time ago and thinking that it made quite bold claims without properly understanding the biology of the "spatial cells". I'll have a look at the thread & eLife reviews when I get a chance!
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