I often get invited to speak at bizarre meetings that are not in my field of expertise. I have often wondered what these meetings must be like, or if they really exist.

What is it like to attend a predatory conference?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02358-w

#academia #academicchatter

What is it like to attend a predatory conference?

Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events.

^{Ro, Christine}

Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere

"We’re so fixated on metrics because they determine funding for a university based on where it is in the rankings. So it comes from there and then it filters down. "

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-scientific-fraud-is-suddenly-everywhere.html

#academia #academicchatter

‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

'We focus on metrics to evaluate a scientist’s career: how many articles they have published, how many times they were cited, what was the impact factor of all these articles. '

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/elisabeth-bik-expert-in-scientific-integrity-we-need-to-slow-down-scientific-publishing.html

#publishing #science #stem #academicchatter

Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

The Dutch microbiologist has been voluntarily searching for duplicate, erroneous or retouched academic images for more than 10 years and warning universities and scientific journals about it

^{Beatriz Olaizola (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

My department at ESU is hiring a tenure-track assistant/associate professor in animal physiology to start Fall 2024 - please share! Review begins 1/31/2024. https://esu.csod.com/ats/careersite/jobdetails.aspx?c=esu&id=7088

#ScienceJobs #AcademicJobs #AcademicChatter #AssistantProfessor
@jobsecoevo

📢 The University of Virginia is launching a fully-funded PhD in Media Studies. Applications for Fall 2024 are now open!

🔭 This interdisciplinary research degree investigates texts, audiences, industries, and tech in relation to economic, political, and social systems of power.

💸 Funding covers tuition, fees, health insurance, and an annual stipend of $30K for up to 5 years.

📅 Deadline:
December 15

📝 Details:
https://mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/about-phd-media-studies

#mediastudies #commodon #communication #academicchatter

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

Struggling to decide who to include in the author list of your manuscript? CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) can help!

https://credit.niso.org/

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon

CRediT

^CRediT

Wow. Ok. Normally I feel like it's a bit overplayed to individually comment on #MDPI in the whole #AcademicChatter conversation, but this is really a must-see:

A Special Issue where the guest editors are lead or senior author on 27 of the 28 papers it published. Were they also their own reviewers!? Like... that sounds like I'm taking the piss, but... no seriously were they?
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals

I guess this is a preview to an upcoming post. Look forward to it...

This. Is. Hilarious.

The PhD-Simulator

https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

#PhDs #phdlife #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG #AcademicChatter

So many good points in this piece by
@PhilippBayer

My highlight in this screenshot (#science delivery & success is a TEAM effort!), but if you're vaguely involved in #academia +/- #bioinformatics, do have a read and think how it all may apply to you. #academicchatter @academicchatter
https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/110644840476993836

Philipp Bayer

2023-07-02 13:58:01

A new blog-post: the two cultures of bioinformatics, and how academia selects against one https://philippbayer.github.io/blerg/posts/2023_07_02_the_two_cultures/

The two cultures of bioinformatics

i ramble about bioinformatics careers

^{Hello! Welcome!}

Happy to say I defended my dissertation "Methods and complexity in phage-bacteria ecology and evolution"!

Much thanks to all those who supported me throughout my PhD.

I'm glad to be sticking around the Turner Lab for another year as a post-doc to continue my work on multispecies phage-bacteria communities

#PhDone #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Academia #PhD #Ecology #Evolution #Phage #Phages

• About time! All MDPI journals are "predatory" (57%, 26 votes)
• Mmm, only some MDPI journals are "predatory" (20%, 9 votes)
• MDPI journals are iffy, but not fully "predatory" (20%, 9 votes)
• MDPI journals are fine! (2%, 1 vote)