Nothing beats a brief "entertainment break" from paperwork like responding to a condescending editorial email. After three decades of upholding scientific standards, I think I've earned the right to value my expertise.
If they can charge for almost everything, they can pay for the brainpower. Until their business model evolves, my "reject" button remains firmly active.
Back to work now! ✍️📖
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MetaArXiv/116098607342372256
Yet another example of how so-called "#AI" entrenches existing problems in academic research.
#metaScience #metaresearch #academia #academicChatter #NoAI #maihT3k
My students, having made it through a semester of "intro to slightly advanced stats" #AcademicChatter
@libroraptor this is unfortunately more than usual. And shows that neither the authors nor the reviewers did their job. And suggests that the rest of the paper is not of sufficient quality as well. We should be able to record bad citations
#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing
It's fascinating how the same voices lamenting the 'broken academic system' are the first to dismiss anyone trying to contribute from outside it.
'Independent researcher' shouldn't be a red flag; it's often the only option left when the system fails to accommodate non-standard ideas.
We keep working. The data (and the 1348 clones on 2/18) speaks for itself. https://github.com/JavierMartinAlonso1980/qcd-vortex-entanglement
#AcademicChatter #astrodon #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics
I am an enthusiastic microbiologist in search of a host institute for a SNSF or ERC Starting Grant in Switzerland. I am particularly interested in how human pathogens adapt to their different environments and niches. Please contact me if you know of a suitable institute. Thanks for boosting!
#startinggrant #hostinstitute #academicchatter #academia #switzerland #SNSF #ERC
Today between teaching sessions: students exchange what they stream, hockey or curling?
S1: But you’re Swiss, you need to watch hockey!
S2: But in curling we still have options!
S1:
S2: I mean, the women have options in both 😁
S1: 😐
S2: Honestly, curling is more exciting, the Swiss Women team will win hockey anyway
S1: But yoy need to stream hockey!
#AcademicChatter #TeachingIsFun 🏒 🥌 🇨🇭
*S1 is male, S2 is female, both are future engineers :)
RE: https://fediscience.org/@JeromeDqn/116084431746658924
Thank you guys for the #boost. But I am still looking for more dynamicists and nonlinear dynamics lovers ☀️🙏
A colleague is submitting a (hopefully) last round of revisions on an article. Between submission and publication, the entire editorial board has left, set up and published their first issue of a whole new journal 🤯
I'm reviewing for a special issue, which I now deeply regret. Not in the least because most published work does not meet my personal (open science) standards.
Sadly, AI also makes this job worse as it gives anyone the power to write long empty and seemingly convincing rebuttals (i.e. you didn't answer the question).
Es lässt sich den Beiträgen sowohl von Petra Gehring
https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/shining-diamond-a-mr-80-1-20/
als auch in der Replik von Diethard Tautz
https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/2026/01/30/diamond-ist-die-antwort-die-gegenwaertige-krise-des-wissenschaftlichen-publikationssystems-kann-ueberwunden-werden/
präzise entnehmen, woran die bisherigen Lösungsansätze in der Krise des wissenschaftlichen Publikationssystems gescheitert sind.
Daher vermeiden neuere Ansätze die alten Fehler:
Good morning, the Art History department is inviting me to a research seminar entitled 'Is the Side Wound of Christ a Vulva?'
Yes, a tired question by now, but this seminar brings to the table 'material traces of use, [showing] that images of the Wound of Christ were heavily rubbed, touched, and licked. This use-wear evidence would have considerable ramifications for the meaning of these images, if the medieval users had in fact interpreted them as vulvas.'
People not mincing words: "The whole academic system is fucked."
(A not to be named senior person at the "Compact Objects in 3D" Lorentz Workshop)
Conference day 1: clean shaved faces. Nice open hair. Hugging people you haven't seen for a year. Asking your overseas colleagues how the jetlag is doing. Slowly starting up discussions, with mostly senior folks involved.
Conference day 4: stubble. (Unwashed) Hair in braids. Rings under the eyes. Quietly nodding to each other over the 3rd cup coffee before the start of the first session. Heated but friendly back and forth in every discussion session between everyone.
Women counter in the seminar this morning: 1/12.
#AcademicChatter #WomenInPhysics #WomenInSTEM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116095927843936684
This is a very good summary of the current state of open source development (flooded with slop) and a way forward.
But, also, the same critique applies to the current "open science" situation in academia. The same issues persist. People don't want to play it slow - pay dues and build trust.
But no, academics want citations or as @Daojoan put it " their GitHub activity graph to glow green for recruiter eyeballs".
First conference in a while and I'm very much looking forward to discuss my project on historical novels on the early modern period.
Todays #Fediverse academic paper:
https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/36821/1/Phish_hunters-3.pdf
Its always rewarding to find papers talking about similar things and contexts to things Ive written about. This is a key reason I dont use chatbots. I value the sense learning and knowing by human thinking, discovery and serendipity.
I work almost completely solo due to topics of interest, but there are people out there working away on similar things. Ie, #IPFS and Fedverse and #decentralised networks.
Good: one of my papers was just cited!
Bad: perfunctorily in an article to which it bears no relevance.
Devastated to discover that there is only one Trekkie among my students, and he hasn't even watched Voyager.
#StarTrek #JusticeForTuvix #ProfessorLife #AcademicChatter #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager
