MeowZedong
@MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
- Comment on Deez 🥜 6 days ago:
One of my favorites:
- Comment on Powerful 1 week ago:
Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of “as we previously reported,” but maybe that’s just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he’s like, “idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact.”
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
I was kind of thinking of that with the institutional journal bit. It doesn’t need to be a traditional journal, the only things important to me are:
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peer review (skip #2)
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open access
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professional editors to help improve phrasing, spelling, flow, etc.
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DOI link or similar unique identifier
I’m totally down to ditch the traditional journal format otherwise. It was just a quick comment not meant to go in-depth, but point out that we already have public institutions that can host publications.
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- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
I swear it’s an official rule that reviewer 2 is required to be a huge pain in the ass.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
Institutions could easily form their own journals. National organizations that provide grants could also require you to publish in their journal. Universities can run their own journals. These sorts of entities already exist and provide article access for free, publishing in them would just need to be normalized.
These are just a few options without researchers organizing anything for themselves.
- Comment on Rocks Rock 3 weeks ago:
But if you talk to them informally, they will excitedly show you pictures of cool rocks, which is neat.
- Comment on safety first 3 weeks ago:
Yes, we just need to install water hardener systems rather than softeners to boil out the plastics!
I’m curious how effective typical household water filtration systems are in comparison. I’d expect RO systems would be effective at least.
- Comment on download 3 weeks ago:
I will try this, thank you for the advice. Normally I end up contacting the authors when I don’t have access. Some are great and respond within the hour, some never respond.
- Comment on download 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, Elsevier is the worst. They tease you with those section snippets, so I scroll from the abstract and can start reading the introduction…scroll a bit more and it’s unceremoniously cut off mid-sentence. Then I rage because the article is newer than 2022 (no Sci-Hub) and my institution gets cheaper every year.
I can’t view papers I’ve published in some journals anymore. When I see this, I think: “Why don’t we subscribe to papers we are actively publishing in?? Why aren’t all of the papers I want to read published in open access journals?? Why did I contribute to a journal that wasn’t open access??”
- Comment on safety first 3 weeks ago:
How dare you not share the reference in a link too!
- Comment on Falling 4 weeks ago:
Great, now we need to run the experiment with the bowling ball and feather on opposite sides of the planet!
- Comment on Ant smell 4 weeks ago:
It’s not necessarily that you hear more than someone else, but you have the experience to have trained your hearing to discern those sounds.
It’s something I also experience from my time working around machines. Works on all sorts of things.
- Comment on Skrillex 5 weeks ago:
Fuck, that goes hard.
- Comment on Byeee 5 weeks ago:
Cool share, I’d never heard of this.
- Comment on When I grow up, I'm going to be an astronaut 5 weeks ago:
Not using a computer also bypasses it.
- Comment on I don't feel so good, man 5 weeks ago:
THAT’S why it’s been so rainy lately.
- Comment on Humor 5 weeks ago:
Something along those lines. He had a more questionable association than just receiving research funding, I think it was partying on JE’s island and there were a bunch of young girls at the party?
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
This is how you know they’re irrelevant. Take the time to learn or just retire.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Aka, old fucks who don’t even know how to save a PDF. Also the only reason I can’t work with modern tools, including sending a OneDrive link for a manuscript in Word. We get to pass around a million copies of the same Word file like animals.
- Comment on Motivation 1 month ago:
So you get spammed with emails asking for papers and presentations at conferences too?
- Comment on sweet dreams 1 month ago:
More believable than the meme.
- Comment on speedometers 2 months ago:
Here’s an experiment that you could try at home:
Takes 2 cups of water of equal volume, one hot and one cold. Put a single drop of food coloring into each cup and time how long it takes for the color to fully disperse throughout the water.
Record your units in SI units like cm or mm, because inches are stupid and scientists have agreed to not like them. You are a scientist now, so you must join the club.
Submit your findings to the journal of Lemmy for peer review. Extrapolate into other forms of measurement if you want.
If you want it to be even better, measure 3 temperatures (in °C, mind you): room temp, hot, and cold. Then you can plot them on a curve of distance vs time.
- Comment on puns 2 months ago:
I joked to a coworker yesterday that they should name new materials they make after stupid pop culture references because the regulations for naming new things in our field are obtuse.
I may have implied that if it worked for biochemists, Sonic the Hedgehog would work for us too. Next time, I’ll suggest we name it something even dumber in Vietnamese or Arabic.
- Comment on literally my supervisor 2 months ago:
Reviewer 1: looks, good, great paper!
Reviewer 2: Not enough statistical significance. Use more mice. MORE SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
- Comment on Temperature 3 months ago:
It doesn’t.
Unionize. Individually your power to change things is weak, together your power is strong. The only thing power listens to is a greater power and the reality is that your bosses likely rely on you more than you rely on them.
I guarantee you do have useful skills and that they are better than what an LLM can produce. Don’t listen to the hype that will be used to justify taking your ability to live from you in exchange for higher profits.