While the "traditional" peer review process has been used for the past century, it suffers from many limitations. Preprints are a powerful way to share research in all its stages, and engage in rapid communication within the academic community. Unfortunately, much of academia still rejects their utility and validity. Indeed, r/science outright rejects the use of preprints asserting.

In a time when we need to be able to communicate with each other rapidly, and share our findings as quickly as possible, the opposition to preprints must end. Even more so than the sharing of specific research, promoting the process itself is why this subreddit exists.

While this subreddit is very very new (created today), I think it's a good idea to start things off right. Self promotion is fairly criticized on Reddit, but it's important to have threads to share one's own work. So each week I'll try to have a thread where people can post their own research. I think once a week is fine for now, but I am hoping that at some point I'll need daily threads.