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Happy Start of Term Day to those who celebrate! #AcademicChattter
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Sarah Elaine Eaton: Stop wasting my time! AI agents infiltrate scholarly publishing
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Sisyphus is happy, because his task has been gamified. ©️ Existential Comics
Happy Start of Term Day, German academics! #AcademicChattter
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New blog post for the Emacs Carnival on writing experience (https://masto.gregnewman.io/@greg/114899165487420555
www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250725.h...
#Emacs #OrgMode #gnuplot #PlantUML
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This is a problem in many academic fields. As editors of the handbook, we have tried to live up to our responsibilitz and select our authors as diversely as possible: of different genders, from as many countries as possible, with different language skills, from all academic career stages […]
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Against the arbitrary decision of the #UNIL rectorate, #solidarity with our colleague Prof. Joseph #Daher
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No change in nearly 6 weeks. This is a good journal with v speedy turnarounds. During this time, I accepted & completed a review for the same journal, editors granted an R&R, authors did the revisions, I re-reviewed & editors last week accepted the revised MS. #AcademicChattter
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Another peer review horror story, but it's ... not 𝘵𝘰𝘰 horrible? 'some aspects of a scam but it’s not entirely fraudulent' #AcademicChattter
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As an aside, any HoD, Dean etc knows that invoking some unspecified collective is a tried & tested leadership technique #AcademicChattter
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The algo showed me this ad, and after 3 years in academia, I think it is the funniest thing #AcademicChattter
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Harsh, but also kinda obvious? 'Rather, sloppiness and a refusal to engage with errors can be seen as an active strategy for success as a scholar and pundit' #AcademicChattter
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Favourite German #reviewer2 phrase: 'vielfältig defizitär' = displaying a whole variety of deficiencies. Particularly nasty, b/c vielfältig has positive connotations #AcademicChattter
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. So if you want to check out Academic Bluesky, here are some tips #AcademicChattter from the ever useful @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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The reference-tweeting 🤖may be a bit creaky, but it carries on nonetheless - on Twitter & its merry clones #farright #AcademicChattter
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A monster beloved by administrators the world over #AcademicChattter @redpenblackpen
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My trusty b/w printer has not failed me once in more than 15 years. And its specs are still superior to, er, the hardware that helped to steer Apollo to the moon #AcademicChattter
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But the man himself wasn't lazy: he 'uploaded numerous documents filled with self-citations to his university’s scientific repository, GREDOS, including one paragraph on smart buildings that contained 227 citations to his own work' 📚. Chapeau! #AcademicChattter
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