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What Scientists Said: Results from Astera's First Essay Competition

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Astera recently hosted its first essay competition, focused around metascience.

Astera recently hosted its first essay competition, focused around metascience. This competition was always more about starting a conversation than finding a bunch of perfect solutions. We wanted to hear from working researchers, not policy experts or administrators, about the structural problems they actually run into, described concretely enough that someone could do something about them. We also wanted that conversation to initiate a more public dialogue, which is why we required all submissions to be posted openly before being submitted to us. We weren’t sure if this requirement would…

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