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If you're interested in the details of what goes in to developing rotors for a helicopter for an atmosphere we've never built in before you should check out this talk: https://doi.…

I hope this comes across as helpful and not one-upmanship: it is natural to think that having a child is like many of the other things you're used to in life where you can control …

I don't have a problem with the comments. They're illuminating under a close reading. The role of CEO is high status and highly desirable. I think it's safe to assume most readers …

There may be an intersection between fabricated research and fraudulently reviewed research but I understand that at least some of the papers retracted for reviewer fraud could hav…

You might be interested in the Publons Academy [1] -- which we are launching tomorrow -- and some of the other tools we've built to improve the review process (e.g., more trustwort…

Interesting writeup. We saw this coming on Publons: https://publons.com/p/518732/

With Publons.com ( https://publons.com ) we have different philosophy: the more transparency we can bring to the review process, the better. At the same time we recognise that both…

This is one of the problems we're trying to solve with Publons.com. We help reviewers to build an officially verified record of past reviews (which is great when it comes to gettin…

Absolutely agree. I just pledged. Thanks Tom.

Very similar to CloudCannon ( http://cloudcannon.com/ )

I absolutely agree with Doug. The key is prestige. Our approach to that is to turn peer review itself into a measurable research output -- see our recent partnership with PeerJ for…

Hi Doug. Cool graphic. I'm one of the founders of https://publons.com . Our mission is to speed up academic publishing by turning peer review into a measurable research output. Wou…

The key is to start developing better ways to measure researcher productivity. That's where all the different forms of altmetrics come in. For us (Publons.com) we're using peer rev…

> it would also give some recognition to the work that goes into reviewing a paper I think you're spot on with this comment. That's exactly what we're building at publons.com. Chec…

ImpactStory monitors github, which is pretty cool. Example: http://impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger

I've said as much in the article comments, but it's worth repeating here: there's really no surprise that this sort of thing happens when more than a million articles are published…

You're partially correct. I'd say that we tend to adopt the successful cultural adaptations of our ancestors and discard the others. In other words, when comparing an ancient socie…

It's not immediately obvious there's anything new or interesting in there: how is this heuristic different to a classic Hansonian bet [1]? One potential advantage is that having "s…

Check out ponoko ( http://www.ponoko.com/ ).

Nice paper; probably cooler than the FTL neutrino result from last year. If you're a physicist then you might like to review, rate, or discuss it on publons: http://publons.com/pub…

In economics a cost or benefit that is difficult to charge for is known as an externality. The pleasant smell of food might be a positive externality; second hand smoke a negative.…

> And then the university will sponsor my visa? That would be the hope. I guess that more related your startup is to a field of research at UCB the better your chances. > What kind…