Links. Tweets. Photos (Week 2023.15)
Links of the Week
Too many requests for peer review slowing down science: “It is unrewarded work,” says Donna Yates, a criminologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. “One gets nothing from peer review, other than being taken away from work that helps your research or teaching.” Time to take review-to-submit seriously!
Do we need academic birth control? The basic sin is the “up or out” model (coupled with the non-fungibility of grant money, which often pays for training people, but not for employing trained people).
Death of a technical skill (PDF): what happened to Flash programmers when Flash was killed off by Apple? Surprisingly, salaries were stable (maybe even slightly increased).
Tweets of the Week
every european election:
🔵 The People's Democrats (center-right) - 31%
🔴 Soviet Worker's Party (center/center-left) - 22%
⚫️ Citizen's Forum (fascist) - 19%
🟠 Wow! (center) - 11%
🟣 Friendship Is Magic (left) - 9%
🟢 Green Party - 8%
A few weeks ago, we sent an Open Letter led by @deevybee to the French @CNRS CEO. The letter asked some questions about @CNRS handling of a specific case of scientific integrity. Main point of this OPEN LETTER transparency is needed.
The responses are worth a read. 🧶
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee
Remember the "hungry judges" study, which has now been included in two huge bestselling books by Daniel Kahneman (among many other places)?
Now we have another relevant study, and it reminds us that the original one was just too good to be true: