Have you ever read a scientific article and wondered how it gets published? And who pays for it? (Spoiler alert: the scientist. Yes, we are certain it’s the scientist 🥲) Join in as Iris chats with Adina Pusok, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Oxford, about the publishing process and how tedious it can get (while the researcher becomes increasingly impatient as they cannot wait to go on a break!). Get to know about their views on double-blind reviews, pressure on early-career researchers, the flaws (yet, importance) of the peer-review process, publishing fees, and the inequality that the current process exhibits.

(PSA: Don’t forget to check your proofs!! 😅)

(Don’t!) Stalk Adina: https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/adina-pusok/ / https://apusok.github.io / https://twitter.com/AdinaPusok

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Resources*:

• Adina’s blog post on peer-review process: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2019/02/06/demystifying-the-peer-review-process/
• Writing the Methods section by Adina: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2019/09/20/writing-the-methods-section/
• Peer-review 101:https://undsci.berkeley.edu/understanding-science-101/how-science-works/scrutinizing-science-peer-review/
• ‘Significant’ inequalities affect non-white researchers when publishing their work:https://physicsworld.com/a/significant-inequalities-affect-non-white-researchers-when-publishing-their-work/
• Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: the example of ophthalmology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825414/ *Note: very incomplete. These are just some suggestions for starting points.

Secret paper: Van Zelst et al., 2022 (Solid Earth): 101 geodynamic modelling: how to design, interpret, and communicate numerical studies of the solid Earth https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-583-2022 https://irisvanzelst.github.io/papers/2022a_vanzelst.pdf

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