RE: Growing our community with STEM live events
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This is a very nice initiative! I am biologist by training, with a PhD in Immunology and I am working for more than 10 years in clinical research and drug development. I would really love to see this community growing. I dream that at some point the problems arising from the peer-reviewed scientific publication industry (with its publisher dominance and the nonmonetary, only reputation value of the authors) may be effectively solved by a blockchain based publication and value approach. This was the initial thing a thought of, when I joined Steem. I am very curious what we can establish here on HIVE. I am ready to participate.
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Are you aware of Pevo project?
Thank you for making me aware of this. The steem-post from @pharesim is 4 years old, and the downloadlink of the whitepaper seems unfunctional. Is this project still ongoing?
I think the project is dormant now. Maybe it will get revived. Who knows? But it was a good idea.
I shut the website down with the launch of Hive. The project has not received interest from anyone since the end of the bull market (go figure the kind of people coming before), and it all still talks about Steem, so I chose to bury it. Can dig out anything you're interested in...
Thank you for your swift answer. It might be to early as the science guys are not so many and we have to wait for mass-adoption to get enough participation. However, it is god to have something up in the sleeve for the time right behind the next bull-run. Maybe it has already started 😉
It's safe to exit the server then?
Nothing happening there since a long time, I thought about closing it down already - but I still have a bit of hope left for the future. No need to stay around for you.
If there's any speck of hope, then ama stick around a little longer.
Hello here! Sorry for the delay in answering, week-end time is always complicated for me, with the boundary conditions (i.e. the family). I would love to see you on-board and also writing about your field here.
Concerning the peer review process, I like to show how we are an example in particle physics. Our main journals are all open access (the community pays for that), all our preprints are available on the arxiv before even getting submitted (and this holds for many many years) and we even have the scipost initiative that is an open access online journal where even the referee reports and the replies to them are publicly available. I wish this could serve as examples :)
By the way, would you be interested in a holding a live event (a la AMA, with video + recording and so on) about a topic related to your field?
Physicists have led the way in open access! Although I fear perhaps the attachment to arXiv has led to a very PDF-centric publishing infrastructure. I'd love for publishing to be more web native.
This is true for the PDF part. I like what some journals do (EPJC for instance) where you can access the articles in a browser in a quite readable way (although I usually prefer the PDF so that I could annotate them).
Thank you for your answer. The open source initiatives are really a progress. However, I feel with all the new possibilities the blockchain technology brings to us, there might be a dezentral, peer-reviewed process possible that also distributes the value of publication directly to the authors of that paper. We will see what will develop in this regard.
I am happy to contribute to the mentioned project. Maybe @suesa is interested to do a conjoined format about clinical development or cellular immunology. I might also need some technical support/advice...
Not before the 31st of August. I'm struggling to get my MSc despite the pandemic, and that day is when I am supposed to turn in my thesis. Don't have enough mental resources for a productive cooperation with someone else, and wouldn't want to give anything but my best!
pressing thumps for a successful time writing your MSc! It is clear that you don’t have the nerves to to an extra project on top. But lets keep the idea for later on.
Don't worry, if you are interested we can schedule you for the fall or the winter.
Several people tried to bring this already in the past. Personally, I don't know. Do we really need a blockchain for this?
Also, how do you define a peer in a decentralised way?
Concerning the live events, I will be the test case number 1 and we are still at the stage of defining things. So no worries, we have time!