@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online
Post #3469633
2026-06-29 11:58 UTC
Also, the actual authors of academic papers don't make their money off of people subscribing to journals, so they're often happy to share their work with curious people.
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@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online 2026-06-29 12:00
That said, I feel like there's a significant overlap between the set of people who want to read academic papers and the set of people who find the idea of cold emailing a stranger about their work cripplingly anxiety inducing.
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@philbetts@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 12:37
@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online I once got to request a copy of THE seminal (and unavailable) 1975 article from an author, and got to say "congrats on inventing a field" (even though I disagreed with their position.) 😄
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@mattblaze@federate.social 2026-06-29 19:29
@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online When I describe how academic publishing works to non-academics, they don't believe it. They think they're misunderstanding or that I'm leaving something out.