Scientific publishing was created to distribute knowledge, but much of the modern system restricts access through subscription paywalls, expensive article-processing charges, slow peer review, and centralized editorial control. Researchers may […]
Avoiding Predatory Scientific Publishers: A Practical Guide for Researchers
Publishing research should make scientific work more visible, credible, and useful. Unfortunately, some publishers exploit researchers by presenting themselves as legitimate academic journals while providing little or no genuine peer […]
Blockchain Grants for Independent Researchers: How Decentralized Science Funding Works
Independent researchers often face a structural funding problem: they may have strong ideas, technical expertise, and publishable results but lack the university affiliation, administrative support, preliminary data, or professional network […]
How decentralized science funding works
Decentralized science funding, or DeSci funding, uses open online communities, blockchains and programmable governance to finance research outside—or alongside—traditional universities, government agencies and venture-capital firms. DeSci is broader than funding: […]
How Government Research Funding Makes Science Worse
Government funding has enabled major scientific achievements, from space exploration and particle physics to vaccines, public-health systems, and fundamental mathematics. Many important research programs would be impossible without public money. […]
The Paradox of Capitalism: Is Money Still a Reward?
Capitalism is commonly defended as a system of incentives. A person produces something valuable, society purchases it, and the person receives money. In this simplified picture, wealth is not merely […]
From USSR to Blockchain: Comparing Centralized and Decentralized Science Systems
By 2026, decentralized science has moved from crypto-native experimentation into a serious funding layer for translational research, where tokenized intellectual property, major venture syndicates, patient communities, and institutional diligence now […]
AI Internet-Meritocracy: A Beginner’s Guide to a New Funding Model
By 2026, decentralized science has matured into a working financing layer for labs, patient communities, and early venture syndicates. AI Internet-Meritocracy sits inside that shift, where tokenized intellectual property, public […]
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Volunteer Marketer for a Science Nonprofit Needed
Position: marketer (GEO/SEO/email)Compensation: none (volunteer) AI Internet-Meritocracy (there are also several other, less important projects at the same domain) is an app (a beta was released recently) that distributes crypto between scientists and free […]
