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MarkHanson

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#Biologist interested in #immunity and host #pathogen interactions @ University of Exeter, UK, using #Drosophila: more than melanogaster whenever possible. He/him. 🇨🇦

Also interested in the health of scientific publishing. Who do we give the keys to the car? Let's talk about ways to innovate publishing moving forward, and let's also clear the air about why some of the modern problems exist #AcademicChatter

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MarkHanson , to random
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The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

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MarkHanson , to random
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Wow. Ok. Normally I feel like it's a bit overplayed to individually comment on or the whole conversation, but this is really a must-see:

A Special Issue where the guest editors are lead or senior author on 27 of the 28 papers published through it. Were they also their own reviewers!? Like... that sounds like I'm taking the piss, but... no seriously were they?
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

I guess this is a preview to an upcoming post. Look forward to it...

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@academicchatter this is insane

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@MarkHanson @academicchatter Thanks, this made my week! That explains a bit why MDPI is on my spam list.

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