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An opinion piece in #PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) suggests that to help the overwhelmed #PeerReview system in #science, a transparent universal credit system should be established to incentivize peer review: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506681123.
Nah. Peer reviewers need to be paid #income for their work! And one associate professor says, in a comment on Bluesky, that for-profit #publishers should pay peer reviewers.
An excellent blog post about what to look for when you're revising your writing, from my colleague Lisa Poisso
https://www.lisapoisso.com/2021/10/29/words-to-revise/
It's all great stuff, but I went searching for it because of the entry on "filter words."
LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND
https://archive.org/details/editingcanadiane0000unse_v0y6
Editing Canadian English, by the Editors' Association of Canada (of which I count several members as colleagues)
“Although the parties have switched sides, the story is the same. Now, as then, a minority is disfranchising voters because it knows its ideas are unpopular and it cannot win on the merits of its policies. What it can do, though, is to deliver white supremacy to its followers in hopes that it will be enough to make them ignore the economic system that is leading them to ruin.”
#Politics #USPolitics #USElections #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #Economics #LettersFromAnAmerican
Karen Conlin
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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)