Do you like this, as an M.O.?

The aphids are being resistant bastards this year.

You don’t have to go as far as Saturn MORE LATER

I was reading that before Hitler, it was common to refer to authoritarian power-grabbers as “Pharaoh”, I guess because of the shared biblical touchstone. Really makes you wonder where Ramses III would have been on the political compass.

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Is it really the sole superpower any more? That status relies on force projection and fiat dominance, and both seem a bit crumbly?

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Takes all types! It was definitely not for me.

I’m afraid you weren’t the preferred vampire for the position.

Not social credit, SOCIAL SHAME! I think we need to pool all the declined or ignored invitations to review and make a public list 🤣😭

In more direct response to your question, perhaps a journal’s mentoring efforts should be focused on developing better reviewers, which invariably leads to better authors?

None of it is easily solved.

It’s not even manageable, which means it’s less of a wicked problem and more akin to collapse.

Before COVID that figure was more like 6-8.

People need to slow down, submit less crap, contribute to peer review. If you don’t there should be stigma and censure. The system is broken but so are the hard-working volunteers who are papering over its cracks.

I think there needs to be explicit requirements to do high quality reviews *before* you’re considered for publishing yourself. There’s a massive amount of AI slop being submitted to journals I have editorial roles with, and even for the better stuff I now frequently have to ask 20+ reviewers.

NotebookLM is the best we can hope for

Eddington was an incredible documentary.