I've spent a considerable time in and associated with academia. It is certainly a system that "works" at all in spite of the process because of the talented and

I've spent a considerable time in and associated with academia. It is certainly a system that "works" at all in spite of the process because of the talented and passionate folks involved and would benefit from some large structural changes. I think that academia could make large steps forward by adopting some of the wonderful collaboration tools created by open source projects. Basic things like wikis, version control, accountability through open peer review, and open standards for data if required could really change the quality and the pace of innovation. The current model was set up for an incredibly smaller community where everybody literally knew each other and the economics were different. What is needed now is more like a github for results/collaboration and python notebooks for analysis so others can reproduce and test.