Peer review meltdown in one diagram.
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
7. We show that this setup leads to a pernicious positive feedback loop. When submissions increase, more peer reviewers are required. Either current reviewers have to spread their effort thinner, or less qualified reviewers must be recruited. Either way, review accuracy drops.
![Flow diagram. At the center is the key cycle: Authors reduce self-screening --> Reviewer pool becomes depleted --> Accuracy of review declines --> [back to] Authors reduce self-screening.
Outside arrows lead to this central cycle.
Greater emphasis on elite journals --> authors reduce self-screening
More journals create more opportunities for fresh review --> reviewer pool becomes depleted
Common pool dilemma reduces desk rejection rates --> reviewer pool becomes depleted.
There is an additional cycle:
Accuracy of review declines --> Authors learn less from reviews --> Authors reduce self-screening](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreieslgd5btmytfr2vrqg2v2kqyv3bnwjcommpcxurp2ju4yjdbm454)
July 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Peer review meltdown in one diagram.
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
I reported on economics for one (1) year. Everything I learned about it—from data on corporate pay penalties for mothers, co-pays for births, and lack of federal policies on issues like childcare or paid leave—loudly indicated there was little to no incentive for me to have children in the US.
February 26, 2024 at 11:33 PM
I reported on economics for one (1) year. Everything I learned about it—from data on corporate pay penalties for mothers, co-pays for births, and lack of federal policies on issues like childcare or paid leave—loudly indicated there was little to no incentive for me to have children in the US.
MAGA Republicans first said that federal workers were lazy. Now, they want a $1.3 billion pool of bonus dollars for them. What's the real reason? Are huge bonuses an incentive for ICE and other federal workers to do the regimes' dirty and illegal work?
May 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
MAGA Republicans first said that federal workers were lazy. Now, they want a $1.3 billion pool of bonus dollars for them. What's the real reason? Are huge bonuses an incentive for ICE and other federal workers to do the regimes' dirty and illegal work?
Need a friend with a pool 👀. If that’s you pls lmk (added incentive - I will skinny dip)
July 31, 2023 at 7:37 PM
Need a friend with a pool 👀. If that’s you pls lmk (added incentive - I will skinny dip)
unrelated but i really hate the tax incentive system. it isn't a grant to productions seeking funding, it's a reimbursement to already-funded productions who spend their money in-state. it doesn't foster local film scenes, it creates a readily exploitable labor pool who'll take what they can get
April 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
unrelated but i really hate the tax incentive system. it isn't a grant to productions seeking funding, it's a reimbursement to already-funded productions who spend their money in-state. it doesn't foster local film scenes, it creates a readily exploitable labor pool who'll take what they can get
Sacramento County has expanded its pool of public funding to exempt deed-restricted affordable projects from various impact fees—key to ensuring feasibility.
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
After heated debate, Sacramento County adds incentive for affordable housing developers
The first project to receive the incentive, with $2.8 million left in the fund, will be on Howe Avenue
www.sacbee.com
August 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Sacramento County has expanded its pool of public funding to exempt deed-restricted affordable projects from various impact fees—key to ensuring feasibility.
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
@thiccwife.bsky.social when friends wife offers you incentive to beat husband pool 🎱 the the spoils her smirks the bet is on
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@thiccwife.bsky.social when friends wife offers you incentive to beat husband pool 🎱 the the spoils her smirks the bet is on
!!Prize Pool Update!! #NotAFundraiser
The following thread will contain what has been donated so far to help push the incentive to purchases infinitokens during the time of the event. Remember every $10.00 usd spent will place you in the raffle
The following thread will contain what has been donated so far to help push the incentive to purchases infinitokens during the time of the event. Remember every $10.00 usd spent will place you in the raffle
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
!!Prize Pool Update!! #NotAFundraiser
The following thread will contain what has been donated so far to help push the incentive to purchases infinitokens during the time of the event. Remember every $10.00 usd spent will place you in the raffle
The following thread will contain what has been donated so far to help push the incentive to purchases infinitokens during the time of the event. Remember every $10.00 usd spent will place you in the raffle
America has always had classes of people who are banned from voting. Women, Black people, Indigenous people, Asian people. Currently, in many areas, felons can't vote, which gives the state an incentive to criminalize minorities. Takes them out of the voting pool. (Also means legal slavery.)
January 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
America has always had classes of people who are banned from voting. Women, Black people, Indigenous people, Asian people. Currently, in many areas, felons can't vote, which gives the state an incentive to criminalize minorities. Takes them out of the voting pool. (Also means legal slavery.)
This introduces new perverse incentives, to overstate patient acuity to get a bigger pool. In straight capitation models the incentive becomes to undertreat.
December 25, 2024 at 6:12 AM
This introduces new perverse incentives, to overstate patient acuity to get a bigger pool. In straight capitation models the incentive becomes to undertreat.
That system worked because it gave the company a talent pool to draw from and a reason to develop employees, and it gave workers an incentive to stay with an employer for the chance of promotion - which kept institutional knowledge for the company - it was a virtuous cycle...
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
That system worked because it gave the company a talent pool to draw from and a reason to develop employees, and it gave workers an incentive to stay with an employer for the chance of promotion - which kept institutional knowledge for the company - it was a virtuous cycle...
One great part about having a women's pro league is the incentive to really develop that baseball pitching talent pool. A lot of the hitting and fielding skills translate from softball to baseball. The pitching, not so much.
August 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM
One great part about having a women's pro league is the incentive to really develop that baseball pitching talent pool. A lot of the hitting and fielding skills translate from softball to baseball. The pitching, not so much.
Here's a sobering reminder for the lonely souls. Dating has become a full-scale for-profit digital industry and as such these companies have every incentive to keep you in the dating pool. They make money from your subscription, from the ads you see, from selling your personal data.
May 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here's a sobering reminder for the lonely souls. Dating has become a full-scale for-profit digital industry and as such these companies have every incentive to keep you in the dating pool. They make money from your subscription, from the ads you see, from selling your personal data.
Let's just ban Airbnb in general.
there should NOT be ANY incentive for landlords to remove rental properties from the pool in a given area, that has a follow on social cost to citizens.
( I would allow an exception for rentals of attached units where it is ALSO the primary residence of the owner)
there should NOT be ANY incentive for landlords to remove rental properties from the pool in a given area, that has a follow on social cost to citizens.
( I would allow an exception for rentals of attached units where it is ALSO the primary residence of the owner)
March 11, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Let's just ban Airbnb in general.
there should NOT be ANY incentive for landlords to remove rental properties from the pool in a given area, that has a follow on social cost to citizens.
( I would allow an exception for rentals of attached units where it is ALSO the primary residence of the owner)
there should NOT be ANY incentive for landlords to remove rental properties from the pool in a given area, that has a follow on social cost to citizens.
( I would allow an exception for rentals of attached units where it is ALSO the primary residence of the owner)
The magical wage rises that occur when you create a higher pool of unemployed and remove all incentive to pay anyone higher and get rid of anything to do with pay equity
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 AM
The magical wage rises that occur when you create a higher pool of unemployed and remove all incentive to pay anyone higher and get rid of anything to do with pay equity
Season 7.5 Content Incentive Event is sealed, and the rewards are rolling out. 🐾
Every valid submission stacked up. Every creator who put in the work earned their share of the pool.
📸 Results are in — check the full winners list & reward details here: https://bit.ly/4eeUAMP
#MarvelRivals
Every valid submission stacked up. Every creator who put in the work earned their share of the pool.
📸 Results are in — check the full winners list & reward details here: https://bit.ly/4eeUAMP
#MarvelRivals
June 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Season 7.5 Content Incentive Event is sealed, and the rewards are rolling out. 🐾
Every valid submission stacked up. Every creator who put in the work earned their share of the pool.
📸 Results are in — check the full winners list & reward details here: https://bit.ly/4eeUAMP
#MarvelRivals
Every valid submission stacked up. Every creator who put in the work earned their share of the pool.
📸 Results are in — check the full winners list & reward details here: https://bit.ly/4eeUAMP
#MarvelRivals
Sometimes the incentive is clear: influencer Tim Pool was paid. But political figures like Witkoff - is he getting direction from Trump? From Putin? Does he get what he's doing? Ditto for formerly respectable academics like Jeff Sachs: is it ego, money, kompromat, stupidity? Let's talk about it. 2/
March 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Sometimes the incentive is clear: influencer Tim Pool was paid. But political figures like Witkoff - is he getting direction from Trump? From Putin? Does he get what he's doing? Ditto for formerly respectable academics like Jeff Sachs: is it ego, money, kompromat, stupidity? Let's talk about it. 2/
The response rate for peer review requests is dismal. I imagine it's due to: the ever-shrinking pool of reviewers + everyone is overworked/burnt out + the precarity of the job market + lack of incentive for blind review etc
If you're a tenured prof, please evaluate manuscripts at least sometimes.
If you're a tenured prof, please evaluate manuscripts at least sometimes.
March 20, 2026 at 12:37 AM
The response rate for peer review requests is dismal. I imagine it's due to: the ever-shrinking pool of reviewers + everyone is overworked/burnt out + the precarity of the job market + lack of incentive for blind review etc
If you're a tenured prof, please evaluate manuscripts at least sometimes.
If you're a tenured prof, please evaluate manuscripts at least sometimes.
They call him on it, they get removed from the press pool, then they get fired. Not much of an incentive to step out of line.
August 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
They call him on it, they get removed from the press pool, then they get fired. Not much of an incentive to step out of line.
maybe MIL is the exception where Attanasio would spend more if he could, but there are more teams that are happy to just sit back and collect, and this only amplifies the incentive to do so, especially when paired with expanded playoffs making it easier to access that pool of money sans investment
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
maybe MIL is the exception where Attanasio would spend more if he could, but there are more teams that are happy to just sit back and collect, and this only amplifies the incentive to do so, especially when paired with expanded playoffs making it easier to access that pool of money sans investment
Get excited, wrath month charity week starts tomorrow and my art is in the incentive pool! Come get some!! 🔥🔥🔥
Rewards for people who donate
Much love to @xinexes.bsky.social and @goodnightfira.bsky.social. Y'all rock. <3
Much love to @xinexes.bsky.social and @goodnightfira.bsky.social. Y'all rock. <3
July 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Get excited, wrath month charity week starts tomorrow and my art is in the incentive pool! Come get some!! 🔥🔥🔥
Almost done moving! Sunday is the final day and I have my pool set up so my extended time will be a “pool party” and a bbq! Love it! Fits 6 comfortably but when it comes to just us two it will be even better! Ask me about my incentive “pool party”experience!
July 2, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Almost done moving! Sunday is the final day and I have my pool set up so my extended time will be a “pool party” and a bbq! Love it! Fits 6 comfortably but when it comes to just us two it will be even better! Ask me about my incentive “pool party”experience!
The problem is that AI is an incompetency and laziness multiplier. The incentive to actually understand what you're coding is vanishing, and the burden will fall on an ever-shrinking pool of reviewers who actually know their stuff.
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 AM
The problem is that AI is an incompetency and laziness multiplier. The incentive to actually understand what you're coding is vanishing, and the burden will fall on an ever-shrinking pool of reviewers who actually know their stuff.
"What's the point of our death pool, then?"
Sounds like they're realizing they've created a global incentive for assassination.
Sounds like they're realizing they've created a global incentive for assassination.
March 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"What's the point of our death pool, then?"
Sounds like they're realizing they've created a global incentive for assassination.
Sounds like they're realizing they've created a global incentive for assassination.