ALT Four people in airline uniforms stand in front of a plane that reads AIR SCOTIA, smiling at the camera.

ALT We’ve got to stop publishing so much. Quite aside from chasing high-impact, bad-actor journals, we also have to stop Red-Queening ourselves into unsustainable publication rates. We’ve got to start embracing slow science, where we value quality over quantity. It’s bad for science as it becomes more and more impossible to keep up with the literature and the average quality of a paper necessarily goes down as quantity goes up (scientist time is constant). This frenetic need to publish is part of what gives power to bad actors. And this is hardly good for work-life balance and mental health either.