Dave Adams

I mean ‘now’ is ignoring quite a lot of work since around 2010… perhaps a literature search for this term would have been a good idea before writing this story..?

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

good analogy right there!

Yeah, I can do Duck in a truck and most of Witch on a broom with no need to look at the page

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

OK, with this rule, I have read 21,456 books this year. 21,212 of those are Little Miss Giggles… I have also listened to Tabby McTat over 17 billion times…

Before kids, maybe around 60 a year. Now I’ll be lucky to hit 6 I think…

Assessment and characterization of Origanum vulgare essential oil in highly viscous polymeric dispersions for cleaning cultural heritage stone materials Stone biodeterioration caused by microbial colonisation poses significant challenges to the conservation of cultural heritage. Here, we investigate hi…

New Year, New Paper - work carried out by a visiting student from Italy to look at remediation of a Historic Scotland hill fort - really interesting new problems to tackle...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glasgow, cold but pretty…

Don’t blame them, but a strategic error. Now will go to a new referee who may well find yet more issues…

If they can’t read the autoreply, that’s all on them. First invitation to re-review on christmas day - 3 hassles later (all of which I have ignored) and they have cancelled the invite. Sorry authors but rushing to submit before the break was not a good move…

Yeah, just ignoring the 3 I got so far with two reminders each…

Just to going to say that understanding for an entire chapter of my PhD came from reading a paper after the one I was looking for in a bound collection of a journal in the uni library. If I had just downloaded the paper (not possible then), I would never have seen it…

I guess service is harder to metricise and so harder to game so certain types of people won’t bother and will also therefore never see the point in giving credit for these roles as they can’t be important as they never did them… and so the circle continues

Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey!

#MASC2025
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Some of my group are going, but I can't make it sadly. Look out for Simona's PhD prize winning talk and Fin has a talk on his self-assembling peptides too!

For context, I refereed something with some nonsense in it recently. The google search AI answer on this point was where the nonsense came from so I guess the authors had just asked google whether this concept was the case...

Well, this is the first time I have seen an emoji in a reference letter... my grumpy old man status means this is not a positive aspect of the letter even though it has a big smile...

Trying duckduckgo that seems better so far

Very proud of Simona and all of her many achievements at @uofgchem.bsky.social - she was a fantastic PhD student!

sunny, cat asleep; snowing, cat asleep in the warm; hailing, cat hiding; raining, cat on shoulder whilst you try to install something on I22 remotely...

I guess they need to ask people or perhaps work out why people are not doing it on time (or at all...)

Yeah...

I also find it ineresting that I rarely get asked to referee for example but they are apparently struggling to find referees...

Interesting we don't seem to get a say in whether our proposals will be used to train the AI and release the confidential ideas into the AI world...

I dream of 10%…

Difficult to say this without people getting defensive and rejecting the paper…

Also the same group has published two completely different datasets for the same system and no-one seems to have ever commented or noticed. This is despite the authors even interpreting them also differently…

Problem is that the answer as to why the data are different elsewhere is that they have not sorted out the artefacts…

Yeah will probably do now but then where? Experience says no-one cites the preprints and few people read them either…

I don’t care where it goes but it should be published somewhere so people can at least find it.