Open Science

While in graduate school I was constantly frustrated with the status quo of scientific research. This includes everything from the incentive structure of academia to data sharing policies. Heck, I even saw lab members refuse to share data with each other. After leaving academia I started to learn about the open science movement and preprints. I saw a need for a preprint search engine so I decided to go ahead and try to make one. PrePubMed was the result.
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PrePubMed: A PubMed for preprints Omnes Res
I wrote an article explaining how PrePubMed works.
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My preprint epiphany Posted November 7th, 2015 in Blog
The real reason prestigious journals (still) exist Posted February 17th, 2016 in Blog
Mishandled criticism of PLOS ONE Posted March 4th, 2016 in Blog I thought it was unfair for scientists to criticize a journal for one mistake given how many papers contain scientific errors at high profile journals, and thought the criticism might galvanize PLOS ONE to be more transparent and truly open access, but as you will see in the next post, they failed miserably and are truly a complete joke of a journal.
PLOS ONE has become what it hates Posted March 21st, 2016 in Blog I am absolutely disgusted with how PLOS ONE reacted to #CreatorGate, and thankfully if you look at the comments at the online article there are some people who agree with me. Was this simply an overreaction, or was this a sign of deeper problems at PLOS? You can decide for yourself, but from where I'm sitting it looks pretty damning.
A tale of two grants Posted May 26th, 2016 in Stories
The Prime Evil Posted June 5th, 2016 in Blog
Has peer review hit rock bottom? Posted June 16th, 2016 in Blog
Are preprints better than journal articles? Posted July 11th, 2016 in Blog
F1000Research gives open science a bad name Posted July 25th, 2016 in Blog
The different flavors of preprints Posted September 29th, 2016 in Blog
bioRxiv vs. PeerJ Preprints Posted September 29th, 2016 in Blog
My response to the NIH RFI on preprints Posted November 22nd, 2016 in Blog
Openness == Reproducibility Posted November 26th, 2016 in Blog
Walking the plank: preprinting and double blind review Posted January 21st, 2017 in Blog
Peer Review is just “Security Theater” Posted January 28th, 2017 on Medium
A citation confession Posted March 12th, 2017 on Medium
Why bioRxiv can’t be the Central Service Posted May 5th, 2017 on Medium
Why I don’t send papers to journals: A case study Posted June 16th, 2017 on Medium
Peer Review is useless, case 22527 Posted January 16th, 2018 on Medium
The most illegal blog post in the history of peer review Posted February 12th, 2018 on Medium