Anyway, there's most definitely an unacknowledged bias. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for researchers in non-western, non-english dominant countries.

I find remarkable the pushback I get from Ed psych journals with Australian samples. Even with large population representative samples, some papers are rejected outright because it's not a contribution. Sometimes reminded to emphasise that Australia isn't representative of 'everywhere' (no kidding)

"If we’re not out here digging, what are people going to read about? Do they think the stuff in PNAS or Psychological Science just appears out of thin air?"
Hahahaha 😂

And then you hear back on all the submissions in the space of one week. And they're all major revisions. And they're all due in 3 weeks. And you're in the middle of marking 157 papers with a hard deadline 🫠

Well yes, I am in Australia 😊

Meanwhile in Australia I have no idea, because I always assumed NPR must have been more conservative given that Quantitude is definitely not NPR 🙃

Ok this is not the best advice, but if you end up writing a paper with someone you don't like, it makes the revisions easier because in your head you can blame everything on the other author(s) haha

I have just added a note to this effect in my promotion application. There are a lot of 'AI champions' at my institution so I'm not sure how it will fall. Nonetheless I want a record for myself.

Thank you! 😍

Although I think the greeting card writers were running short of ideas 😅

😂

Also haha I just saw what Macquarie posted about you over there 😅

I have found LinkedIn to be a bit slow in terms of building a network of people who post interesting stuff. It seems like a good way to connect with teachers or school/system leaders as well as academics (but my area is education). The tone is often embarrassing but I just skip over those posts 🙃

The interesting thing is we can study all the kids in Australia in a similar kind of way (different ages of testing etc but similar). Governments collect so much educational data but make it very complicated to reuse it for research, e.g. not all useful data is matched

Was this a pre-planned rant? 😅

This is what has happened where I came from (northern Tablelands east of Tamworth). Big houses that graziers of my parents' generation built for their families now sit empty.

Interestingly the Australian funding system is proposing a move away from having a dedicated national early career grant, to a system more like what you describe in EU. It seemed like a bad idea to me when I read the govt position paper ...