Scholar Freedom goes live to the world on 28 Feb 2022 9am AEST. It is built for people who no longer wish to abide by the design and expectations of the current academic publishing system because they have experienced it negatively for any number of reasons ranging from racism and sexism to exorbitant open access fees. Stay tuned for the link.

When an ex-CFO from across the world makes time for you and tells you your idea is good, you know you’re on the right life path. One piece of advice was to begin small by crowdfunding the prototype. A small donation each from a sea of people desperate for change in the way academic publishing currently works can change the world. We each make the system. We each can change it.

A nap can work wonders! From today's, I've played with ideas about how the current defunct peer review system can be disbanded and replaced with structural processes that align with the purpose of science - to let scholars talk about what they did, what they found, and what they think it means. Ego, prestige, and money are silencing voices that could really matter to someone else.

Every publication that makes my list longer actually gives me joy for the tangible stock-take it represents of where my brain and heart met at that point in my life.

Reviewers are us. Our peers. Doing exactly the same work. What happened to ‘treat people the way you wish to be treated’?