As with many good things, this started under a full moon at the foot of a bar after too many drinks. We are here under a single purpose, but need all your help. Our tongue is the universal tongue, which will remain when all are in the ground and we are discovered again by another civilization. Yet today, our language of science exists buried within cultures, religions, tongues and tails which exceed anyone’s immediate comprehension. Here is where we come to speak in native tongue.
We are tired of rejected manuscripts containing the works of our lives. We cringe having received our latest grant review. We glance at the corporate roll-out plan and the next round of financing, and recoil in how it evades our fundamental purpose. As the public consumes our technology, we furrow our eyebrows at their increasing unknowing of the black boxes we craft.
Put another way, this is a passage and community about science. We will eviscerate editorial boards. We will lean on peer review. We will poke holes in corporate wisdom and profitability outlooks. We will gossip about who our advisors and co-workers are sleeping with, and who obtains faculty positions because of that. Generally, we will be the skeptics we trained to be, the objectivists we need to be, and the rational thinkers we are required to be.
So, don’t post your comments to a major journal, or bitch about your referee critiques over coffee. Don’t write an annual review of your manager, or funnel your energies in the patent that might never come. Instead, start here and enjoy the language of science at its highest, and raise the dialogue where you may. Help us create the a lingua that will always remain franca; join the pasigraphy.
