You asked for a line, they gave you a line, what more can be asked for?

We used to intentionally add wrong data to our datasets so we could circle it afterwards, declare it “outlying data” and gain the extra points for spotting and documenting it.

I’m not bitter about my formal education, honest…

Beekake

This looks like one of those “fuck you in particular”, except for a whole country.

This is room temperature

https://youtu.be/VxxYqE4Gil8?si=8TIK_JVAT4Ac_Q_E

Also a good way to make sure it doesn’t have any more birthdays

TopSixHour

Homer Simpson

I’m struggling to remember where I heard it, but the phrase “west side of the east midlands” is a perfectly cromulant description in the UK.

I’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one

The Square, the protagonist in Flatland

Yup, been there, but the other side of it. Was hired to do research and then teaching suddenly appeared as an expectation.

Sure, that would work. Or government grants available so anyone who wants to be an editor can apply for funds to get it going. Papers are rarely printed on paper nowadays, so the main costs would be paying editors, paying reviewers, and web hosting.

I didn’t say it was the publisher’s paying the salaries. My point is that researcher are paid to research, and publishing results is part of that.

Not to argue on behalf of publishers, but the papers aren’t written for free. It’s part of the job of being a researcher, it’s a significant KPI for which you’re hired and receive a wage.

Reviewing for free is pretty much bullshit though. As is paying to read them afterwards, if your research institution doesn’t pay to publish in an open access journal

I haven’t been offline in about 15-20 years. It’s not affecting my life negatively because it’s my life. Being offline would negatively affect my life as it would be a drastic change from the norm.