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I am really disillusioned by peer review today. No, it’s not my paper that got rejected. And no, it’s not the first time an incident like this happens. I just got a notice that a paper I had reviewed for Prestigious Society Letters got editorially accepted for publication after 1st revision. I reviewed the original manuscript but never
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This post, ill-formed when I started writing, has been motivated in part by an email exchange with a former undergraduate researcher of mine, now in grad school at Fancypants Uni, and in part by a recent online interaction with another blogger. I am not even sure how to articulate what it is about, but I guess it has
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I have been in the US for well over a decade. About 2/3 of all Thanksgivings we spent at other people’s houses, and the rest we either didn’t celebrate very much (e.g., I’d cook some turkey breasts, but not the whole bird), or we simply had a nice, but nontraditional meal (Thanksgiving is often close to DH’s birthday,
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Over Thanksgiving break, I will devote some time to the Academic Jungle/Xykademiqz project. There is a lot of material and I started by downloading everything and organizing according to year, paginating, and estimating the total scope (about 400k words); that was in August and greatly aided by jetleg-induced insomnia. Yesterday, I went in detail through 2014, as evidenced by
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This week I wrote graduate school recommendation letters for two students whom I don’t know very well at all. One received an AB and another a B in the classes they took with me. When they asked me for letters (they did so separately and are in no way connected), I explained to each that I
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http://idealist4ever.com/this-comic-will-forever-change-the-way-you-look-at-privilege/ Thanks to DH for sending a link to this one.
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