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by mockingbirdy 2903 days ago
> How to start a lab when funds are tight because your faculty invests all the money in Nature subscriptions

If all the journals wouldn't use their monopolies to extract money out of the system, there would be more money left in research. Academics are so dependent on publications it's ridiculous.

I agree that I would love to see that they solve the root problems and not the symptoms.