Paul Whaley

I agree that we need to be sensible about it. A judgement about there being "no other place" is as subjective as a reasonable GE submission threshold. The bad part, IMO, is the firing off of invitations to any old random to inflate the number of SIs overall, not the threshold in the invite.

UPDATE: The journal we sent the paper to, with our assets table, bounced the paper for being too unconventional in its approach to presenting supplemental materials. 🤦

2/2 25% is a reasonable general threshold, I think. And as a Guest Editor, you can set the policy for publishing your own pieces - and they make clear it is not "self-publishing" because the Guest Editors are not deciding on their own papers. So I would not view this as predatory, not really.

I wouldn't interpret it that way. If the publisher is expecting 8-10 articles in the SI, and there are two or three Guest Editors, then they are just saying this is not an opportunity to dump a load of your own stuff in the literature, and by the way you won't be editing it yourself anyway. 1/2

I mean, what is the appropriate reaction here?

I'm sorry, but "Hitler Lewis"? It only gets better when you discover one of his main co-authors is Innocent Benjamin.

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the brutality

gameboy?

oh you mean an "expression of concern" rather than an expression of concern, gotcha! 👍👍

Doesn't the EoC cover the situation where a paper is being investigated but we don't know for sure whether to retract it or not? I am sure it is abused to the point of uselessness but the principle seems reasonable, at least to naive old me.

Well, that explains why it melted my brain when I was trying to understand it.

How to think about AI and not have an existential crisis It is a tool, not a replacement.

Very nice essay from your man @iandunt.bsky.social on how to think about AI. It is a tool. (Could we expand on the concept of tools? I am not sure people know how to think about tools either: know your task, and judge the tool against how it performs that task.) iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-thi...

Ribbit.

IIRC, the editor was getting mixed messages across the reviewers and didn't have the competence in the submission type to recognise the issues for themselves, so I get it (but I don't excuse it). As an editor myself, I won't necessarily reject a manuscript based on Reviewer 2.

If I had read the whole thread before posting, I would see this is a variant on your story. Sigh.

I reviewed a paper once, recommended straight rejection, was invited to review the revisions, recommended rejection again, was invited to review the revisions, and was like nope I'm done here. Six months later, I got invited by a different journal to review the same paper. :D

<catching up on some unread email> oh no wait, I am already on that listserv

old: two spaces after a full stop. bold: one space after a full stop. cold: carriage return after a full stop.

For anyone who's asking, it's from people like this that I learned to write.

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It dawned on me that the user of a supplement basically needs metadata about the supplement to understand what it is for - so each supplement needs an ID number and plain language name, and there needs to be a table for the other metadata. I'm sure there are better ways of doing it than mine!

Index of Documents for PRIVAT - For Publication PRIVAT: Index of Documents and Assets This table presents an index of documents and other assets relating to the development of PRIVAT, a tool for supporting consistent, comprehensive peer-review of i...

IMO it's probably the best way to do it, especially for complex supplements. Been doing it this way myself for ages and it is policy at my journal for authors to do this. Apotheosis of my approach (33 supplements) is here :))) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

in fairness to people, so did David Hume

I'm going to study it with my bonfire and arson class.

If it makes you uncomfortable, think how I feel? That's my great-grandpa Maurice in the fourth pic.

This bad boy IS on sp*tify! I am inflicting it on the friends we are staying with this weekend.

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I don't think we should require anyone to have a licence to be a researcher, but I do think we should require a researcher to have a licence to use a keyboard.

We will never awake from our dreams of evidence-based policy.