1/ Thrilled to finally share the project we've been working on: https://rxivist.org , a website for sorting bioRxiv #preprints based on Twitter and download activity, plus a preprint of our own analyzing data on 37,000+ papers. @blekhmanhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/01/13/515643 …
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I do worry about this, thanks for bringing it up. Unfortunately, good answers are hard to come by. Our biggest challenge was finding something that scales—we can say, "out of this week's 900 preprints, people are talking about these 20." Filtering for "merit" is a lot trickier.
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if Rxivist is going to be the site going forward for collation, it would be great to have links to reviews and comments. Also as an author, I'd love to include an annotated bibliography for our papers, like "you might also be interested in" links which might help this problem?
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Please be very VERY wary of allowing/encouraging online comments on preprints. There is reason to believe this will expose marginalized scientists to unreasonable criticism and insults.
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That is a good point that I should have considered. I'm not sure how to moderate that. In an ideal world, the field would immediately dismiss reviews that are clearly mean-spirited and do nothing to advance the work (we received a pubpeer review like this).
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Yeah, powerful privileged voices will rule.
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I've summarised a little more in this thread.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1085108047658344448?s=19 …
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Thanks for asking. Most of my discussion comments are blocked. See why: Most tweeted papers related to "microRNA," last 30 days https://www.rxivist.org/?q=microRNA&metric=twitter&category=&timeframe=month&page_size=20&view=standard … 7 results found. For comparison, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=microrna … 81865 results found. More than 1200 published in Dec. 2018.
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I'm confused. What do you mean by "blocked"?
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Most of my 'moderated' comments show up on Disqus as "pending" or "removed."
@CSHL knows that the patent for naturally occurring RNA interference destroys neo-Darwinian theories and limits further funding by NIH. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2016/0002670.html … The preprints are a face-saving attempt. -
woah I didn't realize that comments could be blocked, I figured they were just screening for bad language. That's definitely problematic
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If you have examples we'd be interested in seeing them so that we can moderate them if necessary.
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Thanks for reaching out but I can't do that. I think the parties involved can decide to contact you and they may even have done so already.
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@PubPeer preprints discussed? My comments on bioRxiv preprints from Disqus are listed as pending or removed. Can't have much discussion with limits on twitter. People with short attention spans prevail, and none seem to be polymaths. - 1 more reply
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