Associate Professor--Dept. of Pharmacology, Center for Immunology, Masonic Cancer Center--University of Minnesota
I've been a faculty advisor to Empowering Women in Science and the Pharmacology Graduate Student Organization at my university. Science communication and collaborative science are also focal points of my classroom teaching and laboratory. Mentoring is one of the great joys of my faculty position, and I love sharing the experience of doing science with my team. I like the idea of uncoupling assessments of manuscript rigor and impact, which could ultimately help readers to build priority lists and authors to share high-quality but field-specific work. I like the assessment-based approach and orthogonal platform for workshopping ideas, which democratically tests the process without undermining journal PR or workflow. Changing the system risks betraying authors' and readers' trust in existing platforms, which this pilot will avoid. Requesting new service tasks of our already-maxed-out community is also a big ask. Experimental programs should be mindful of this and compensate or streamline accordingly.