Researchers from underrepresented backgrounds or less connected institutors, face disproportionately higher rejection rates and harsher, sometimes biased peer feedback, severely stalling their career progressions Open access publishing costs a lot of $$. So preprint servers are soaring—but these are not peer reviewed. This can also encourage rushed, sloppy work, and even faking/manipulating data, images, and citations. Read more on my #feministsciencesubstack feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-open-access-publishing #academia #feministscience #equityinscience #womeninacademia #scientificpublshing #academicwriting