i was fourth author in a mdpi paper and now i'm drowning in spam please help

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah… And wait until they start spamming you you to review papers for them, or to participate in their Special Issues, or to be a Guest Editor… Such a shitty publisher, if you ask me.

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    tbf i only did analyses for the other group. published paper is a published paper, even with loss of dignity

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are (somewhat) right… Publish or Perish is unfortunately true. Still, if I can avoid them in the future, I will. They look borderline predatory to me.

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What kind of AI-generated horror is that picture?

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s Sigma Xi, founder of Sigma Xi Society and he wants you to participate in MDPI Special Issue

    fr this image is probably handmade and could be few years old at this point

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s photo shop actually, the image has been around a while

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the Xinjiang megachad Josh Brolin.

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