There’s a lot of great quippy quotes from this actually-really-important article… the following is one of my favorites:
“It’s not beer or tacos,” as James Fraser, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco put it at last month’s [#ASAPbio] conference, “it’s beer AND tacos.”
While we’re at it, here’s some of the interesting #ASAPbio tweets featured in the article:
What it feels like trying to publish. #ASAPbio pic.twitter.com/bJCaFqrop7
— Jonathan A. Michaels (@JonAMichaels) February 25, 2016
Sci-Hub is illegal: when libraries become illegal, you know something went wrong #copyright
— Sci Hub (@Sci_Hub) February 26, 2016
Will preprints disrupt bioscience publishing? Perhaps they should. Disruption is needed, for many reasons. #ASAPbio @NatureNews
— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) February 19, 2016
it's pretty amazing that it took 20 years for "scientists should post their work on the Internet" to not be viewed as radical #ASAPbio
— Michⓐel Eisen (@mbeisen) February 22, 2016