Can Twitter save science?

This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in science who doesn’t already know all the gory details of its troubles. “This week, here are three intertwined stories about positional scarcity from this strange world: 1. How an “indentured scientist” class called postdoctoral fellows became the workhorses of life science research, 2. Why scientific journals are one of the greatest positional scarcity business models I’ve ever seen, 3. Why Twitter is so great for science, and could lead to real disruption.” | learn more