Hello r/science! My name is Alberto Pepe; my co-founder, Nathan Jenkins and I created Authorea after we both grew disappointed by the slow, inefficient, and obsolete ways by which research papers are written and disseminated. We believe: in breaking the cycle of the individual in academia and squashing the collective obsession with academic rankings; that open science and open scholarship will positively shape the future of academic publishing and increase/accelerate the rate of scientific discovery; in researchers retaining ownership of their work and in the public having forever access to research for free (even if an experiment ‘failed’); in the ‘paper of the future’; whereby a static paper is no longer viewed as an acceptable form of submission, rather a digital-born format that allows the reader to access and interact with the most important elements of a researcher’s work: the data and code. I’ll be back at 1 pm EST (10 am PST, 6 pm UTC) to answer your questions, ask me anything! Edit 1: Online now! I am going to start answering questions now. 40 comments already! Edit 2: It’s now 3PM ET. I will keep answering for one more hour, then off for a jog. (54 questions) Edit 3: 3.45PM ET. I am going to take a break, go for a jog, dinner, etc. I will be back at this later tonight. I only managed to answer ~15 out of 60+ questions. There are some amazing ones I want to answer later.