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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That feeling when you do free labour in service of for-profit corporations.

There are so many issues with peer review. Firstly they only tend to ask the senior authors who get 100s of requests a week, they ask ECRs at much lower rates despite being way more numerous within the pyramid scheme. Probably in part due to the abandoned institutional emails when you get work at another org. Also, the amount of times I've made comments for the journal or author to wave it through anyway.

The system sucks and I want an alternative REEEEEEEEEEE