Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

• JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ArXiv is just a pre—print, and SciHub is a shadow library.

  If you want an academic career, have your discoveries recognised, and stay in funded research, you must publish on peer reviewed traditional channels. Like it or not.

  Of course you can still do research alone and publish on your website, but hardly anyone would take you seriously.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s why science is such a failure. There’s no actual progress in forcing information behind paywalls, etc. This is a major part of how/why science is used for the profits of the few at the expense of violence, planetary destruction, etc. for everyone else.

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    • JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t even know what you are talking about, but I’m afraid that you are not well informed. Even as an undergraduate you get access to publications through your university.

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  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s exactly the point. If you want to be a researcher right now you have to play their game. You have to publish papers even if you don’t have anything. So people publish bullshit, use chatGPT, force their name on papers they haven’t contributed and so on.

    Meanwhile the science journals get paid by everyone and pay no one.

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    • JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So people publish bullshit, use chatGPT, force their name on papers they haven’t contributed and so on.

      Assuming that you pass the peer review, then nobody will reference your paper in other papers. It will become obvious that your research is not interesting or that you are just slapping your name on papers as a supervisor.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        just slapping your name on papers as a supervisor.

        So you have no idea what a supervisor does.

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      • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lol, it shows you don’t know how things really work. New bullshit cites old bullshit, it’s all a game of pretending. You can check the statistics of fraudulent papers and that is just takes into account the most obvious ones.

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