@jonny Yes, and please also learn how to do reliable backups.
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@jonny you could put it on a web server by the highway, built into a pizza box!
@krapp if only this was actually the barrier
@jonny the full report is 250 pages, it'll take a bit of time. Are there sections you recommend to go straight after?
The problem is that the goal is knowledge dispersal. In the days of limited bandwidth, the hard part was getting the knowledge out there. Those days are gone. In the days of flooded bandwidth, readers will not find you in the ocean of text, you need a process to reach them. It is still very true (unfortunately!) that papers published in prestige journals get cited more than papers published in workhorse journals which get cited more than papers published in low-tier journals which get cited more than preprints.
If you want your science to have impact (and no, I don't mean "impact factor" --- I mean if you want people to build on your work), then you have to play the prestige game. It sucks, but there really isn't an alternative. (Show me people getting jobs and awards from purely bioRxiv preprints.) This is very much a prisoner's dilemma situation. What we need is collective action. Individuals only screw themselves without it.
It is like @pluralistic has been pointing out about the #enshittification in the rest of the corporate world. (Actually,
#AcademicPublishing is probably one of the best examples of enshittification. It sucks but it is nearly impossible to leave for all the reasons he gives.)
My current hope lies in the combination of preprints + post-preprint publishing as a slow replacement for the current problematic system.
@jonny Often it's also battling against the preconceptions of junior academics, reinforced by countless first-hand stories of their colleagues landing into the shortlist for an academic job on the basis of a preprint, but only receiving the offer for the job after submitting the acceptance letter for the manuscript in a glamour journal – and the senior academics clamouring that the latter is the essential part, when it is exactly NOT.
If at all, here is the call: you all, try to at least redirect juniors towards society glamour journals and away from Elsevier and Springer-Nature, both of which are for profit and very much not have your interests in their hearts.
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