@VictorVenema @FrankSonntag @steve @RARohde If you accept these students who don’t yet have publications, then why does it say the opposite in the signup form?

Folks can claim “performative vitriol” if they want, but there’s a very particular narrow demographic of scientist who this particular hoop/gate appeals to. You’re getting feedback from many of the rest (a far more diverse crowd) that find it extremely off-putting and needlessly exclusionary right at the gate. It’s worth asking why.