Not a Bouncer at the Door: Peer Review as Validation, Vocation, and the Cure for Insularity

This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule. I wrote about why I'm posting there.

Peer review is usually described as gatekeeping, but its real work is keeping practice-based knowledge from going private, unexaminable, and true only inside your own walls.

Read it in a Gemini client at gemini://adjb.smol.pub/reviewing-like-a-reviewer, or in a browser at adjb.smol.pub/reviewing-like-a-reviewer.