Martijn van den Ende
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Martijn van den Ende
@martijnende.bsky.social
Postdoc at Géoazur, Université Côte d'Azur | seismology, Deep Learning, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, rock mechanics
And no, I cannot get internet from my phone hotspot, because I cannot connect to both my phone and the target network simultaneously to perform the authentication.

Props to the designers!
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Wow, you're right; arXiv enforces a file size limit of 10 MB (not 3, though...). arXiv hosts close to 3 million manuscripts, which at 10 MB each still represents a manageable 30 TB, though I can imagine that they're more concerned about bandwidth (30 million manuscripts/month)
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
hal.science proudly claims it hosts about 1.5 million papers, which could all fit on a single USB-SSD drive. I would personally send them another USB stick if they lack storage, as long as my manuscript file can be a healthy 5-10 MB.
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Thanks for the summary. Familiar scenes from the previous platform
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm out of the loop. What did Leadership day/do?
October 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
What is particularly annoying about this particular platform, is that it will log you out after a set amount of time (instead of a set amount of inactivity). Did you just write out an entire author list for this publication? How about I log you out first so you can do it again?
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'd consider the impact factor to represent the journal's ability to generate citations. Whether that correlates with a positive author experience is anybody's guess. I'd rather see some kind of "social impact factor" that measures the wellbeing of authors, reviewers, and editors.
September 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Martijn van den Ende
scirev.org 👈
"SciRev.org is [...] offering researchers the opportunity to share their experiences and select an efficient journal to submit their work." And guess what: "The website is owned and maintained by [...] a non-profit organization located in The Netherlands."
SciRev - Review the scientific review process
scirev.org
September 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Exactly that! We need to make it more popular amongst our community. And they need to index Seismica!
September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm sure that there are many other journals out there that can act with complacency and negligence, knowing that their reputation is mostly derived from the Impact Factor. We need more push-back from the community to ensure they are meeting their "high quality standard" that we are paying $$$ for.
September 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I just had a manuscript returned to me and my co-authors after almost 3 months since submission. The main reason: we declared funding in the acknowledgements but not in the metadata. I could fill out an "author satisfaction survey", but this will not change anything, and the world deserves to know
September 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I haven't seen those in a long while, but had I filled them out truthfully, half my family and friends could get into my user account at any time. They should have asked more private questions, like "Business address of your drug dealer" or "Name of your second mistress"
August 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This PSA was prompted by an email from Sapienza's IT to renew my password that looked suspiciously like a phishing attempt. When you do notify users, never say "Click here to learn more"...
August 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I indeed suspect an overly-zealous find-replace tool. I initially feared that Overleaf had enabled an AI language tool that automatically "corrected" my writing, but fortunately that was not the case. But given how many scientific terms end with -or, I anticipate more victims of this macro...
August 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I could understand how this could happen for a non-specialist journal, but this journal supposedly specialises in trees. They should have known how to typeset Latin species names.

Want to see for yourself? academic.oup.com/treephys/art.... I will gladly send you a copy if you don't have access.
Using fibre-optic sensing for non-invasive, continuous dendrometry of mature tree trunks
Abstract. Dendrometry is the main non-invasive macroscopic technique commonly used in plant physiology and ecophysysiology studies. Over the years several
academic.oup.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM