How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out. Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK. # neuroscience # Drosophila # ScientificPublishing # academia # TrakEM2 # FijiSc # CATMAID # connectomics # connectome # vEM # iNaturalist # entomology Born at 335 ppm. Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.
How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out. Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK. # neuroscience # Drosophila # ScientificPublishing # academia # TrakEM2 # FijiSc # CATMAID # connectomics # connectome # vEM # iNaturalist # entomology Born at 335 ppm. Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.
Reflecting on eLife's new publication model, 3 years in: "the most important thing we have learnt is that our new approach to publishing works. Authors, reviewers and editors routinely tell us that they have had a more constructive experience with the new approach."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/110392?_hsmi=98220609
Proud to be an eLife editor. eLife's publication model gets the best from everyone:
* from authors, who remain in control and can reply to reviewers without fear and without being overly apologetic or sycophantic;
* from reviewers, who engage constructively in a semi-anonymous way (they aren't anonymous neither to each other nor to the editors, all practicing scientists in their field), knowing that their comments are suggestions, not mandates for authors;
* and from editors, who don't have to deal with any nastiness from any party, everybody being far more relaxed that I've seen in any other journal, concentrating their efforts in the scientific content.
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