Elsevier is losing editors

Nature published a news article about this important issue and it is ... well ... $39.95 if you want to read it.

@ElsevierConnect Anyone needs a reference

@ElsevierConnect Alexandra Elbakyan FTW. All hail Sci-hub.

@ElsevierConnect G’day! yes been on this hamster wheel. Thank you take care mate.

@ElsevierConnect We once had the vice deans of faculty come present to our department about the complicated process of academic advancement. After a long and dry talk they paused to ask if there were any questions. No one else said anything so I raised my hand and asked “why do people do this?”

@ElsevierConnect This is exactly why the Plantrician Project started The International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. Open access: no fees to the authors, and no fees to the readers! Take a look at the latest issue:

@ElsevierConnect HAHAHAHA *sobbing* I worked in academic publishing for over a decade before quitting to become a nurse because it was a soul-sucking nightmare of making poverty wages editing unpaid researchers for multi-millionaire CEOs.

@ElsevierConnect this showed up while I was reviewing a paper ...

@ElsevierConnect ive said it before but im really happy that this is hopefully going to be changing. scientists deserve better, and maybe by the time im old enough to publish stuff i wont have to worry about it.

@ElsevierConnect "I make my own Journal with Blackjack and Hookers!"