The future of academic publishing is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed | Simply Statistics

"... Lately statistics and statistical genomics have been doing more of what math does and posting papers to the arxiv or to biorxiv. I don't know if it is just me, but using this process has led to a massive speedup in the rate that my academic work gets used/disseminated. Here are a few examples of how crazy it is out there right now.  I started a post on giving talks on Github. It was tweeted before I even finished! ..."