Alex Weber @weberam2@qoto.org

In peer review, so much time is spent dancing around the power of the reviewer.

You often can't say what you really think and you have to go to extraordinary lengths to appease hypothetical opinions, which are often inaccurate anyway. I support peer review but not like this.

Also the power dynamic between the reviewer and the editor creates an additional layer where the reviewer cannot always speak their true opinion, for fear of hypothetical decisions by the editor.

For example being critical without triggering a rejection

I finally full-on joined the X-odus and left X (ex-Twitter).

It's a bit painful (I met a lot of nice people there, and it really helped build my network), but I just can't justify contributing to it in any way any more.

🧵1/5

Staff resign en masse at an Elsevier-run journal to start their own non-profit OA journal. Big props to @themitpress for helping them. Hopefully we’ll see more like this.

🎩 to @tdverstynen for the pointer

https://imaging-neuroscience.org/

Scientists are moving from X-itter. Almost half have opened accounts with Mastodon, the highest of all the other social networking sites according to a Nature survey.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

“A coming-soon version of Shinylive for R will provide a much better user experience for getting fully client-side R Shiny apps up and running . . . I believe Shinylive with webR integration will pave the way for providing a user-friendly method to build and deploy containerised R Shiny apps, running on WebAssembly.” - @gws at @Posit
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/08/webr-0-2-0/
#rstats #RShiny #Shiny #webR @rstats

So Jordan Peterson’s publishers couldn’t actually find any praise for his latest “bonkers” book, so they just snipped out phrases from reviews completely out of context… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66520089?fbclid=IwAR2HXBAgl8-Nu5IPAFO7ihMccRyY3oelAcKipW8NkozOUt8OCEHL73xrL5w_aem_AWmhQdShdvbp3W0hVr6FwHIt49Ob_LiXBJ-R74XCqhnv12wOlZjvAbebFNnEm9ACiew

Let's stop dependency hell: launching pixi

https://prefix.dev/blog/launching_pixi

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://prefix.dev/blog/launching_pixi

#programming #python #release #rustlang

Fosstodon is by far the most popular Mastodon instance handling #rstats toots! . . . at least according to my analysis of posts over the last 7 days.
It's also seen a 6-fold increase in users and a MASSIVE jump in hosting costs. @fosstodon users who are able: We can help our overworked volunteers & moderators starting at $1 (US) per month!
To become a monthly sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/fosstodon
What's happening in our instance: https://hub.fosstodon.org/more-upgrades-twitter-storm/
@fosstodon @rstats #FundFosstodon

ICYMI: 12 ggplot2 extensions to help you up your data visualization game with simpler code. Plus some extra bonus ones at the end!
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3667496/12-ggplot-extensions-for-snazzier-r-graphics.html
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #InfoWorld @rstats