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@paulbaldufYes, I found that since 2024 the journal is part of T&F.

@michcampbell ...looks great though, would love to do this work. Also local rents/house pricing are not insane!

@DrEvanGowan @adamsteer @michcampbell And in the later years, being senior I was a strong believer of this and indeed the responsibility of a PI to make this abundantly clear.

@penworks we need to burn altmetrics to the ground, along with impact factors. "Scientific value" is a harmful construct.

I used to do freelance editing, and HR stuff always seems to be like that. Also long rambling paragraphs and sections with no breaks. It's like they're trying to make it as dense as possible. And if multiple people created it, it's in different styles and formats. ‍

Great blog by Pat Thompson on academic writing:️ https://patthomson.net/2026/03/08/getting-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable/"Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself. One of the ways we make writing harder than it needs to be is by writing as though our argument has arrived fully formed, rather than being wrestled into shape over several drafts."This is why you *need* to write yourself, even and especially when writing is hard!#AcademicChatter #PhD

@kaiarzheimer Unfortunately, we create seldom a really cool hookline in academia.

"The stakeholder-based ethics analysis of the work is considered incomplete, as reviewers were ignored. My personal blood pressure spiked multiple times into unhealthy territory during the review process of this work."I wish I could. I really do. #academicchatter

@transitionalaspect Pasting the wrong cover letter into an application form is probably a common mistake for applicants who have a folder full of variations on the same CV & letter.But yeah, hmmm, that is an interesting combination of potential jobs that this person is considering. But I'm told it is getting to be a desperate job market...

I read a political science paper ?a decade ago? ?two? that had a hypothesis and some data... it compared the political health of many countries in Africa, post-WWII. If I'm remembering correctly, the "trick" was to have enough resources to not be stuck in subsistence agriculture, BUT the resources had to be... not easily centralizable? Because if they are you get warlords and then oligarchs.

@talisyn Well, yes. In this case, I was talking about lab mates sharing "wow, look at what they can do now!" kinds of findings without asking: "did they actually do what it looks like they're doing?"If it was us proposing our wild ideas for others to critique, that would be one thing. But when we see exciting ideas from others, I think it's important that we critique them.