• @[email protected]
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    54 hours ago

    I imagine this would be the most efficient way to do science if it weren’t for the effectiveness of collaboration that, regrettably, demands the presentational overhead.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 hours ago

      What if there was a bunch of lemmy instances for scientists to post journals on and the other scientists could up/downvote and roast the other scientists work publicly.

        • @[email protected]
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          132 minutes ago

          I think it would work nicely if each public university had their own instance. Since it’s government owned, it would be illegal for them to censor other scientists. I guess if the public university web was big ebough, they could make private universities and other institutions agree to be censorship free, plus moderation would be transparent and in the open. Not sure how moderation would work exactly, it should be fairly self regulating if users are exclusively credentialled experts with real names attatched to their accounts.

  • @Kvoth
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    298 hours ago

    Journals are such a scam. Pay us so we can charge other people to read your work

    • @[email protected]
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      66 hours ago

      I get that it’s a fee to safely archive and copy papers properly, with maybe access control and logging. I don’t see the fees updating with the times , even if they’re still maintaining archives with paper copies as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        96 hours ago

        Elsevier and Nature Group are for-profit. That is the problem. Once profit is involved, morals and ideals go out the window

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    209 hours ago

    I’ve got a notebook I use to doodle cad designs and record measurements. I am constantly temped to put in a page of gibberish just in case I become the next Da Vinci, so generations of people will waste their time tying to decipher it.

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      7 hours ago

      some group of nerds in the future: “ok but this is rumored to be the MATHEMATICALLY BEST POSSIBLE 3D printable parametric drawer organizer. If we can break the file encryption, humanity will become so effortlessly organized that we’ll shave centuries off of becoming a space-faring species.”

  • @Adalast
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    88 hours ago

    I love that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s notes are on display in the library at Cambridge (if I remember correctly). The man is hands down one of the greatest men to have ever lived. I was so happy when The Man Who Knew Infinity came out. He deserves his place alongside Leibnitz, Newton, Gauss, Einstein, al-Khwarizmi, and too many others who contributed more to our world than 99% of humanity will ever know.