My gut says the benefit of outsider-legible status outweighs the risk of dumb status games. I first found out about the publication from my wife, who is in a dermatology lab at a good university. Her lab was sharing and discussing the article across their Slack channel. All scientists read Nature, and it’s a significant boost in legibility to have something published there.
Edit: Hopefully, the community can both raise the profile of these issues and avoid status competitions, so I don’t disagree with the point of the original comment!
My gut says the benefit of outsider-legible status outweighs the risk of dumb status games. I first found out about the publication from my wife, who is in a dermatology lab at a good university. Her lab was sharing and discussing the article across their Slack channel. All scientists read Nature, and it’s a significant boost in legibility to have something published there.
Edit: Hopefully, the community can both raise the profile of these issues and avoid status competitions, so I don’t disagree with the point of the original comment!