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Keith Taber
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Retired former school and college science teacher; science teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge. Interested in HPS, music, photography, peace & justice. .. more

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 2d
I get loads of these invitations which invite me to submit a paper within the next 3 weeks or less! No serious journal would ever do that.

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Predatory journals
A topic in Academic standards and scholarly / scientific values Predatory journals Predatory journals present as research journals, and invite authors to submit work for publication. They charge fe…
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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 2d
Call me picky, but isn't the phrase 'leader of the free world' somewhat of an oxymoron? Out here in the free world we do not recognise this leader!

In the free world we elect representatives, and hold them to account when they are not up to the job.

(I know UK has a King. I did not vote for him.)

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 2d
Nothing tells me that the Annals of Urology & Nephrology is a serious scientific 🧪 journal rather than a predatory journal more than writing to me with a subject heading i?n?t?e?r?s?p?e?r?s?e?d w?i?t?h? i?r?r?e?l?e?v?a?n?t? q?u?e?s?t?i?o?n? m?a?r?k?s?.
screenshot of email from Annals of Urology & Nephrology with subject heading "W?e? r?e? ?N?o?w? ?A?c?c?e?p?t?i?n?g? ?M?a?n?u?s?c?r?i?p?t?s? ?f?o?r? ?A?U?N? ?R?e?v?i?e?w? ?P?r?o?c?e?s?s?"

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 7d
Beautiful. Thank you.

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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 7d
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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 8d
Someone at a Journal thought that this email would get my attention.

It did.

But, …
Body of an email from a journal inviting submissions - but in deep and highly garish colours making the text very hard to read!

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 11d
I can see why they feel the need to try to convince readers that it is really an official website.

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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 11d
Use colourless nitrogen monoxide and oxygen gases to produce orange-brown nitrogen dioxide gas with chemistry teacher Declan Fleming’s latest Exhibition chemistry demo
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#scienceeducation #chemed

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 20d
If they need to cut costs, they could spend less on all those pointless BBC shows with people competing to dance or cook or lie etc- shows which the BBC shamelessly promotes by finding excuses to feature them on news and current affairs programmes at any excuse.
drkeithstaber.bsky.social Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 20d
I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…
part of a BBC website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnb/broadcasts/upcoming) showing scheduled new episodes of 'Science in Action' weeks after its final episode.

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · 20d
I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…
part of a BBC website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnb/broadcasts/upcoming) showing scheduled new episodes of 'Science in Action' weeks after its final episode.

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · Oct 10
Waiting for my Amazon delivery - which today seems to be being delivered by one of their new quantum trucks powered by the Adams infinite improbability drive.
Screenshot of the map on an Amazon delivery update.

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Keith Taber @drkeithstaber.bsky.social · Oct 9
Anyone interested in explaining 🧪 science (teaching or science communication) may wish to download this resource - a compilation of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors, etc., from across a wide range of topics from various sources.

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Image is part of the cover of free resource: Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts. With an introductory essay. The catalogue is ‘illustrative’ as the sheer number of instances being created and used every day makes any kind of comprehensive survey non-viable; however the catalogue includes examples from across a wide range of science topics, and from diverse sources including teaching, popular science books, scientist’s own writings, science journalism, and scientists’ statements made in broadcast interviews.

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