If you’re fed up with how academic publishing is stuck but don’t see how to break free, here are things you could do when the world feels immovable: - review only preprints or journal articles that are already preprints and do so publicly to benefit readers (and reviewers), not just authors. Extra points if you explain to editors why you’re opting out of secret gatekeeping (many of them will agree with you, understand, or note that things are changing IME) - decide from today you’re not publishing the way you used to and signal to new folks that join your lab how you plan to do things (letting previous lab members do what they want. They may even come around when everyone else around them is free and committed to good science above signaling of the same). See 👇

I loved academia when I was in it — and believe more ever the exceptional value of truly transferable skills obtained within. That said, for the sake of all of humanity, I hope it can free itself of the rampant credit chasing, low agency, consensus fetishizing, and security primacy that IMO hold it back from its limitless potential