A lovely day on the edge of the Peak District. The six year old's legs managed to do 5 miles, and we escaped the crowds at @nationaltrust.org.uk Lyme Park and headed up to the little summit of Higher Moor.
I'll give them a little longer then send another email.
Yes, agreed. I wonder if they will ever change, or whether MDPI will just hope everyone forgets about it.
Indeed. I'll be keeping my eye on this to see if/when it is revised.
A whole month later and this garbage is still online. You would have thought that the authors and MDPI might be keen to quickly set things right. Seemingly not.
Another day of greenhouse gas measurements and water sampling on the Migneint blanket bog with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social
Back to work after Easter to a grant rejection (Leverhulme Research Project). Booooo. Oh well, onto the next one...
My son got a new card game of Welsh legends. This dude is pretty evil looking but honestly, he wouldn't need magical candles to lure me onto bogs; I'd go quite willingly.
Back to normality after a lovely holiday of beaches and hills on Pen LlÅ·n in North Wales.
How many times a day is it acceptable to check in on a manuscript to see if it has made it past the editor and gone to review? Asking for a friend. 👀
Huh, I didn't know that was a thing until I just googled - cool!
A surprisingly wintry day on the Migneint blanket bog. Three rewetted/restored sites visited for GHG flux measurements with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social.
It's beautiful if you like bleak and austere landscapes (I do).
Sadly not.
Shiny new Rugged TROLL 100 loggers ready for deployment to monitor post rewetting/restoration water tables at our blanket bog for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social funded project.
Actually, I have pondered the idea of doing some GHG measurements. Highly convenient for measurements of diel cycles!
First batch of pond plants in. Still needs some landscaping but my new pond is slowly getting there...
Me too!
The authors have informed me this happened because an "AI-assisted tool was used to help organize the reference list".
Convinced? No, me neither.
Day 3 of our @livunigeog.bsky.social Lake District physical geography field class. Sampling streams, ponds, ditches, and rivers for water chemistry. @livunisoes.bsky.social
Maybe a generalisation but it does seem UC is happy to mess up science questions...and also often seems to have science questions that are quite basic level compared to arts/music questions.
Much better today thankfully!
Day 2 of our @livunigeog.bsky.social physical geography fieldclass and the Lake District weather behaved. My groups went off to sample ponds, streams and ditches to understand how land use affects water chemistry.
A rainy day to kick off our @livunigeog.bsky.social first year field class to the Lake District. Today we walked round the local area and talked rivers, flooding, sheep, glaciers, tourism, land-use and more. Fingers crossed for better weather incoming.
A positive first response from MDPI
Actually, I'm on the fence. I submitted to an MDPI journal a few years back (pedagogical work - not my research) and it went through 3 rounds of review, 7 reviewers, and was then rejected. So some are thorough. Looking at the dates on this paper it seems fast though.
You should write it, and turn fiction to fact 😆
What? Don't you remember that awesome project we did on peat pans with the Exeter crew?
Solid advice!
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