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The Unjournal's 2024-25 Evaluator Prizes announced! Recognizing 8 of 80 expert peer reviewers for outstanding public evaluation work. $6,500 in prizes. → info.unjournal.org/evaluator…

This interested me! and GiveWell (blog.givewell.org/2024/06/26…)! But I was also skeptical. Thankfully I'm an evaluation manager at The Unjournal (unjournal.pubpub.org), where we do open evaluations of impactful research, so we evaluated it.

I've noticed when submitting peer reviews that some journals now have a box you have to check that pledges that you didn't use AI when doing the review. This seems dumb to me. I do use AI when I do peer reviews. I do the following: 1. Write my review as I always have, 2. Upload the paper to a frontier model and ask it to do a review as well. (I have settings set up so this data is not retained e.g. for training), 3. I compare the LLM review against mine, and I add to mine things that the LLM caught that I did not if such things exist. I think this produces a strictly better peer review.

GiveWell literally funded research by a Nobel prize winning development economist on a question GW cared about. They then flagged it for an open peer review process (unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/eva…). And yet Leif writes this 👇

See details on how to join The Unjournal evaluator pool or get involved in other ways: globalimpact.gitbook.io/the-… Thread continues on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/unjournal.b…

Unjournal.org plans to work with: manifund.org/projects/metacu… (Consider pledging?) Plans: - Integrate some Unjournal’s Pivotal Question content (cultured meat, plant-based alternatives) - Help operationalize & vet tournament questions --> thread continues on Bluesky

The Unjournal is inviting academic journals to recognize their public evaluation packages in their editorial process. - Help w/ editorial triage, review quality, & turnaround - Support transparency, open-access. Details: bit.ly/3JEee9J

Researchers: Has your paper been evaluated by The Unjournal (see unjournal.pubpub.org)? We want your feedback on the experience, the quality of the evaluations, and how this impacted your work. bit.ly/4qKtYIZ 1/10 get a $100 prize.