Fabian A. Boetzl

Fully understand. I also see the other side, I currently receive ~ 5 invitations per week, some of them manuscripts of authors I work with and many not within my expertise. My assumption is that many editors spend too little time researching reviewers.

I have recently been quite successful, rarely invite more than 4-5 for two reviews. It pays out to invest time in searching for possible reviewers, I focus on late stage PhDs and postdocs that are likely to have time and write them why I believe they are a good fit for this manuscript.

Absolutely! There also need to be journals that publish research that is not necessarily novel. But, as you say, quality standards need to be maintained and it seems to me that they treat many of their submissions in the spirit as if they were a 'dump'.

Scientific reports unfortunately has a track record publishing fake science and AI generated slop ...

Bürgersteig is illegal for cycling if you are 12 years or older 👌🏻 Germans are usually very eager to shout this at you as well 😌

This is what we call 'Deutsche Leitkultur' 🙃

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Yes, lack of novelty. Too much of the same things being published which I believe is caused by the publishing requirements for PhD students that make groups go for "safe" and easy papers instead of novelty and risk ....

Speaking as an editor, it is getting increasingly harder to motivate authors to review (almost nobody above the career stage of second year postdoc accepts review requests) and more and more manuscripts get submitted (with on average increasingly redundant content in my impression)

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And it is an easy language to learn, even for non-native speakers like Robin and me ....

Well said - and just to add here: The use of AI to overcome language barriers will create new barriers between those using AI and those who refuse, ultimately forcing everyone to submit to the products of commercial companies if they want to survive in the landscape.

'Fusion' 😜

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Black mirror level ....

At least the whole thing seems quite bubble-like and I expect the AI business to crash soon ... that will of course not stop AI itself ....

The best thing about this is that they are jumping onto a ship that is already in the process of sinking ....

Will do! 😊

Great work! A bit sad that the GAC did not share your call for data sharing via the mailing list - I have a lot of recent and historic data not submitted to coleoweb from squares where your coverage is low but did not attend the meeting as I was in Sweden at that time ...

Zenodo is linked to CERN funding which may also be discontinued one day (but surely is more reliable for the next counple of decades than other institutions). Ensuring preservation across centuries might require chiseling the code in stone and storing the stone slabs in a gold plated ark ....

😅 I appreciate that they have examples that actually pronounce our language correctly - I would have pronounced it more like 'Hodnkoboid' due to my personal 'Migrationshintergrund'

de.forvo.com/word/hodenko... has you covered with (based on how it sounds) native German speakers

Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.

A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.

Shocking!

Very nice! Out of curiosity: What happens with the colour code if a species is distributed across several realms?

Your best friend is objectively right 😉

This is also a long known problems in entomological collections - collectors do not want the common species, they accumulate the rare species ....

Get it! 😂 I have accumulated quite some Japanese insect books and cannot read a word - they give me immense joy 😅

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Many thanks!