• phdepressed
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    4 months ago

    Yes having friends/colleagues read papers before submission is still common practice.

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      4 months ago

      I hope that wasn’t a stupid question. I’ve been out of that game since before most people on the Internet were born, so I didn’t want to make assumptions based on “that’s how we used to do it.”

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        4 months ago

        I think that type of feedback is a forever thing. How it may be done can change (even some PIs just do comments in the file instead of printing and handwriting) but I don’t see a scenario when that isn’t useful anymore.