Improving scientific accessibility by implementimg ad supported scientific publishing

A novel initiative has been proposed to help fund opens access journal fees and reduce the wasted space in scientific papers

By filling the wasted space in scientific figures with helpful and relevant advertisements for our partners, we can improve access to scientific literature

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.24254

(this paper was submitted on 1-April-2025)

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I was almost very mad before I saw the date it was posted.

The spoof articles posted to the ArXiv are the only April fools tradition I still really enjoy lol

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… it was at this point, with that particular example, I realized what was going on and laughed out loud! :rofl:

The fact that it’s an actual embedded link to Duolingo’s website makes it even better! :laughing:

Omg, I didn’t even think to check if the links worked. Thats hilarious