If a journal asks me to do a peer-review for them, which I accept, then it makes a decision before the review deadline, without waiting for my review, and without letting me know that I do not need to do the review.. while I use my spare time to complete the peer-review by the deadline... then I am not going to do any more peer-review for that journal 🤷

(#PLoSOne in this case 🫤)
#AcademicChatter #PeerReview

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!

Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):

doi.org/10.1073/pnas.191537811…

#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

Why are we kidding ourselves? Or am I missing some key information about how great 'AI' is in L&T at university? How is this 'the future'? What is it about smart sounding chatbots (even if they were accurate and reliable) that is so good it replaces human skill, effort and knowledge? How have bigtech AI companies fooled academics so easily?

#ai #genai #academia #academicchatter

Together with Mario Birkholz of @neuSoM fame, I have written an article about Mastodon and the Fediverse in the journal of the German Physical Society: pro-physik.de/zeitschriften/do…

It's free to read but in German. Let's hope that @DPGPhysik's move to the Fediverse will inspire other scientific societies and universities to follow!

#physics #mastodon #fediverse #academicchatter #wisskomm #physik

RE: fosstodon.org/@zulip/115612910…

Just realised that #Zulip (a #Slack equivalent) is on Mastodon!

Have you tried it, if so do you like it? I'm thinking that #NeuroMethods could maybe move there (at some point in future)...

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