Cat Hicks on Nostr: it's the publishers. They are essentially monopolies that have control over our ...

it's the publishers. They are essentially monopolies that have control over our access to scholarly information and platforms. They have a monopoly on what people trust, in a way. They have captured the authentic labor of academia because they're the ultimate gatekeepers of how academics get judged. The open science/science reform movements have centered a lot on critiquing this, and movements like defaulting to preprints and community-oriented journals do exist but it's a war out there