Inside the three-month experiment to start a scientific journal at Asimov Press

NikoMcCarty · x · 2026-11-16

Niko McCarty spent three months trying to start a scientific journal inside Asimov Press. He argues journals are no fun to read, PDFs are uninspiring, and publishing needs more experiments in the AI era — but after looking into it, he found most assumptions don't hold up, and shares what he learned.

The piece doubles as a plug for Asimov Press, his free magazine about biology.

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