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The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm

The strain on scientific publishing

Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced…
arXiv.org
#SciComm #academicchatter #elsevier #phdchat #phdadvice #frontiers #wiley #MDPI #Springer #publishorperish @paolocrosetto

Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.

Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra wrote an epic 🧵 about his research that's worth a read: https://twitter.com/AukeFlorian/status/1678703433900064773

Paper: https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/organisatie/publicaties/deinsea/deinsea-21/

#science #SciComm #birds #netherlands
A bird's nest made of metal anti-bird spikes, against a white background.
A bird's nest in a tree in Antwerp. The nest is made of metal anti-bird spikes.

Deinsea 21

www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl
#Netherlands #science #birds #SciComm

Like many other scientists I often get "debate me" emails from random people with weird ideas about #astronomy. If I answer, they feel validated. Same if I don't. So I always pick the option that doesn't waste my time. Don't fall for the "debate me" trap, folks, you can't win. #scicomm
#Astronomy #SciComm

This is especially for folks just discovering The Conversation on #Mastodon - but anyone curious about the world will find it interesting and informative reading.

We've collected 8 of our most popular articles of the year in links, and in a downloadable PDF.

Among them:
🦟 The science of mosquito magnets
🔭 The search for super-earths
🌋 Why we can't just throw all our trash into volcanoes to get rid of it

All written by experts.

https://theconversation.com/a-sampler-of-our-most-popular-articles-of-2022-195535
#Journalism #Science #SciComm #News

A sampler of our most popular articles of 2022

A selection of fact-based journalism from 2022, covering topics ranging from super-earths to mosquito magnets, and from why we need to file tax returns to why we can’t just throw all our trash into volcanoes.
The Conversation
#mastodon #science #news #journalism #SciComm

Citations in scientific presentations should be readable and easy to follow for the audience even at the back of the room.

I wrote the tiny #rstats package {namedropR} to make this easy to achieve for speakers.

A quick 'How to' is in the thread below.

#scicomm #academia #academicchatter
The logo of the R package "namedropR": a hexagonal icon with dark backgroundand an orane frame. In the center there is the package name, next to a QR code, which encodes the package name. Next to the logo there is a call to action: reference your literature with style.
#rstats #academia #SciComm #academicchatter

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