Solal Pirelli

The secret is that "half fare" is really normal fare, and "full fare" is a tourist tax. 😅

Hi @springernature.com
How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials?
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#autism

Well, nicer than the French can be a low bar, especially Paris ;P

Well I am biased but also I've had people explicitly tell me they find it easier to understand Swiss French people than French people!

Of course the alternative explanation is we're slower/dumber. :D

But if you do learn French, the best one is of course Swiss French, we speak slower, have sensible numbers, and kept long vowels so fewer words are homophones 😎

Like I'm happy to help people find the train station or the bathroom in "French for foreigners", it's nice that they're trying. But I can't both hold a conversation and constantly think about vocabulary and pronunciation so that the other side understands me.

As a native speaker I don't recommend learning it outside of a francophone context. Otherwise you learn fancy written French that won't get you anywhere in practice because it's genuinely exhausting for a native speaker to have a conversation in that language register.

It already seems to have evolved from a hedgehog to a punk 🤨

Some people doomscroll on BlueSky or other social media, others doomscroll on bad journals... 🐕

The situation of the publisher's bank account balance increasing by one APC, that is

Did they look at past patients and simulate how they think their "medicine" would do, then claim it works great? Or am I misreading things? 🤨

I'm no longer surprised by problems in @acm.org papers, but these two PubPeer comments deserve a special mention:

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The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.

Also the jump gets more powerful every time you use it. For the entire rest of the save file. Totally normal mechanic...

Contrast with my previous repost.

The death toll in the russian terrorist strike against Ternopil has risen to 35. The 12yo girl succumbed to her wounds after doctors had hard fought to save her life for 9d. Her mother was killed too and her sister is still in the hospital.

35 innocent souls stolen at once.
35.

What does it take to publish in Scientific Reports?

Access to an LLM, a few weeks, and 2690$ for the APC.

What does it take to obtain a retraction?

A lot of sleuthing time & work, pubpeer, repeated emails, time, evaluation committees, appeals, and more.

Let's make errors like this costly!

No matter how stupid you expect this answer to be, there is no way you are prepared for how stupid it actually is.

Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.

To balance my impossible question, I'll offer a trivial one that remains my favorite tortured phrase.

Who's "Glove Romney"? 🤣

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Extra impossible bonus question: figure out why some papers torture "by" into, and I swear I am not making this up, "eventually Tom's perusing".

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Il y a aussi un scientifique appelé Hitler Louis, moyennement connu dans le monde de l'intégrité scientifique de par son nom et le nombre d'articles qu'il a dû retirer 😬
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that's what "HTTP 100 Continue" stands for

Kirby inhaling a bunch of food

Looks like Kirby inhaling a biscuit

I'm tracking retractions here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Let's see how long it takes for @acm.org to accept that if the program chair of a conference and other organizers "violated the ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification" they should retract the whole thing...

hmm, bluesky doesn't play with transparent backgrounds very well, it looked okay in the preview... anyway, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20...

A map of the voting results for gay marriage in Switzerland. All states voted yes. (From Wikipedia)

It's kind of nuts how quickly Switzerland went from being pretty backwards socially to being reasonable... here's the gay marriage vote from a few years ago, Appenzell Innerrhoden went from opposing women's suffrage by 20 to 1 to accepting gay marriage in 30 years!

On se demande bien pourquoi ils aiment pas PubPeer d'ailleurs

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When even PubPeer moderators, who are usually restrained, have to chime in on a publisher's non-answer: pubpeer.com/publications...

Ireland's defense policy was created in a lab to make Switzerland look reasonable.

I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.

Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.