Morning! It’s a beautiful day and the weather looks good for the rest of the week :) I’ll go out for a walk in the sunshine later. WFH doing some more academic writing, time to start a new article- I have a list of topics to choose from, but I’m veering towards looking at the topic of hope in working with offenders towards desistance #AcademicChatter#AmWriting#criminology
Just noticed myself doing an interesting thing:
I opened the pdf on my phone of a paper I wanted to read (synced via #Zotero -> #Zotfile -> #Dropbox), saw that it was published by #eLife, and thought "huh, this will be nicer to read via the website" and clicked the #DOI to read it there instead.
I'll start: #SfN! Last summer, I dealt with an illness that destroyed mobility. My supportive mentor ensured I had everything I needed for my first Society for Neuroscience conference. I received an award & had fun.. a shoutout will be in my dissertation to IcyHot! 💃
Yet, a new paper adds to increasing evidence that authors who share their data are just as likely to make errors in their manuscripts as those that don't.
So, perhaps this fear is unfounded...or their errors can only be uncovered using the data itself. Or maybe this error fear isn't why researchers don't share their data.
I enjoyed my morning’s writing, although it’s going a lot more slowly than I’d anticipated (as usual!). I’d hoped to finish the main body of the article by now but it looks like it will take at least some of the afternoon as well. That leaves tomorrow for the discussion, which I find the hardest section to craft #AmWriting#AcademicChatter
In their new article, Arturo L. Fitz Herbert, Reynaldo Rivera, Frank Ketelhohn, and Fern Elsdon-Baker investigate the relationship between religion and science in Argentina, showing that religious scientists often hide their beliefs.
Why are states all of a sudden attacking tenure and higher education? Why are they after CRT, which is only taught in some law schools and something they don't understand at all?
Project idea: a website that aggregates Article Processing Charges from a bunch of journals and compares them to each country's median salary and/or median PhD income and/or per capita science and technology budget and/or any other relevant metric.
As Voltaire could've said, if this doesn't exist, it needs to be created.
The other day another grad student and I discussed how books are often a better way to introduce oneself to a new field than our usual default of following a chain of papers. But academic blogs are (were) also a fun way to kick start thinking or see connections that are not apparent to newbies. I know the incentives don't line up, but if academics wanna (re)start blogging or are thinking about a book rather than papers, I'm a fan. #academicchatter