The logic of 'rising stars' programs is that science needs to retain top talent. But if anything, I've seen more brilliant minds leave science due to the culture of individualist careerism that these awards contribute to, and are a symptom of.

The Drain of Scientific Publishing details very clearly how for-profit publishers making >30% profit margins have corrupted any solution the research community has attempted.

Let's cut ourselves free.

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS
Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub

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Are you just wanting to register the protocol without it being reviewed (use OSF) or are you thinking about putting this through as a registered report? PCI-RR would be the place to go for an RR.

I would not, mainly out of solidarity with the editorial team who quit to form Imaging Neuroscience. That took courage and effort. The journal publishing landscape remains an absolute shitshow of the worst order, but at least they took direct action to try to change it, and I want to support that.

Have you tried Microsoft Bookings via our Office 365? I think you can set a maximum number of attendees and multiple staff appointments.

congruent with www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ? Nick examined intra-individual reliability of tDCS on seq learning also using a big sample size and a bayesian approach. A huge labour of love from Nick, as he flew from Adelaide (where he lives) to Brisbane (where the lab is) to test.

I've been meaning to create one too. There are some good examples here www.win.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...

You can view the accepted Stage 1 and Stage 2s at Peer Community in Registered Reports here rr.peercommunityin.org Good luck!