Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”
"I’ve really liked the editorial culture at Collabra: Psychology. Things like owning your decisions as editor... humility in your decision letters... and editing the paper the authors have written instead of the paper you would have liked them to have written."
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"I think many of us have been coasting on the uncritically positive reputation that peer review has among both scientists and the public - as if peer review is an almost magical process. Showing how the sausage is made will hopefully put some pressure on peer review to come closer to living up to it
" ...we want to reduce the degree to which editors’ and reviewers’ idiosyncratic tastes come into play, and we want to give equal recognition to incremental research, or work that helps correct the record, as we do to research that breaks new ground"