I do peer review and I want you to pay me four hundred and fifty dollars. I’ll even say please.
Introduction
It’s amazing how quickly a perspective can change.
Our team has written before about the value individuals can get from conducting peer review well. That remains true and it is the reason all of us should throw ourselves into peer review with enthusiasm and commitment. But this conversation piece presents a valid argument. There are some very profitable publications that should be paying for the expert services they are glibly calling upon.
That was Plan A.
For all its ridiculous foibles, and the resulting incipient hair loss, and for my many, many attempts to kick its shins, it was still Plan A. I liked it well enough.
But I never wanted to be ‘an academic’.
I wanted to be ‘a scientist’.
Plan B was always working in wearable tech, wearable physiological data, wearable device design. I’ve been around things which go beep a lot, more than a decade. I’ve used everything, measured everything, broken everything, and generally gone from muddling my way through to being the full-stack equivalent of a wearables weirdo. Every conceivable way you can get data out of a person without puncturing them, I’ve used it.
The Plague didn’t help. Higher education institutions, research institutions, etc. — they’re in A Right State. They never saw this coming, and it blindsided them, utterly. Many of them will hit the rocks, and soon.
