@donnerbella What if I already have a career. What if I hate Excel.

I should clarify that I do have sympathy for all these reactions. The problem is systematic. Universities, as main employers, value publications in prestigious journals, but they don't value reviewing. Officially I'm only getting paid for a part of what my job is or should be. So, it seems […]

@sauer_lauwarm In our field, the decline is just a click in the email, no login needed. The moment you publish something, you implicitly agree to being approached for reviews. that's how the system works. A minimal reaction to that is part of the job.

@sauer_lauwarm Woran liegt das?

Related to that is the skill to NOT put problems in front of people, but the solution that you prefer, if possible a solution that makes life for the other side easier.

Oh! I forgot to add one last important bit to this rant. In the same document (linked above), SpaceX says basically "oh yeah, no big deal that we dropped a Starlink on Canada. But just in case, we're going to start reentering Starlink satellites over the Pacific."

I have seen ZERO evidence that […]

@kaltmamsell Danke!

This clip also has a good example of the face I'm making when I realise that I'm not that guy anymore.

Small correction: It's not that a lot fewer people come to the UK. Just a bit. It's that a lot of those who are already here and previously came to the UK want to leave. I wonder why!