Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Since life is keeping me busy I don't have time to do much writing and what not now, so just to keep my blog active I fired off a quick post about the latest report on the humanities.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
Unfortunately life is keeping me too busy right now for blogging, or really much else. But I just thought I would weigh in on the State of t...
Love it when a student who has had their struggles suddenly starts enjoying uni and their studies. You can see their confidence grow and it is a wonderful thing to witness.
Nice to see a proper comparison. We've been using the same system YNiC @yorkpsychology.bsky.social for a couple of years now and get very similar SNR to our old cryogenic system. Super impressed so far!
Closing in two days!
Weekend double bake
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Happy to announce this work has been published
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
People can view the same event and recall it differently.
Here we asked if two participants recall events similarly, where in the brain do they share event representations both at encoding and recall?
Belfast last night is the future for the U.K. some people want. The political voices condemning it so far seem to be mild and weak. We need a wall of outrage from people of influence to make it crystal clear that this is not who we are and will not be tolerated.
