My paper has won an award less than 12 hours after it was published, albeit only “provisionally”. Must be these nice cardiology people again. I’ll spend the rest of the day feeling eminent.
Tag: fun
The machine is still stupid, most of the time
Choose one:
a) This is reassuring, because our algorithmic overlords are still mostly quite stupid, or b) they are lulling us into a false sense of security until it is too late?
I lean towards b), because this was shown to me on RG, a site that makes it its actual business to know exactly what I write about and in which outlets I publish.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not B̶u̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ Academic Spam
I get a lot of Academic Spam. Is this the next level?
I’m an eminent and optimistic bioscientist now
In which I meet Krista, who finally publishes my biomedical research.
I’m a law prof now
My amazing journey through all the domains of human knowledge continues. Click to see where it takes me.
“Bard, tell me a joke about Max Weber”
Sure, here is a joke about Max Weber:Why did Max Weber become a sociologist?Because he was interested in the sociology of bureaucracy.I hope you found it funny! As a coda to a grey and mildly depressing Sunday, I checked in with Bard to see if it was any better than half a year ago. The…
Predatory publishing plumbing new lows
Hey look, I have unlocked a new level of predatory publishing fraud: someone out there is automating so aggressively that they are not just misspelling the title of my article and inventing an affiliation for me: they literally can’t be arsed to spell out my name. Of course, there is no one at King’s with…
Yet another bizarre request from a predatory publisher
Here is another gem from today’s mailbag. They are just taking the piss now.
Samuel Stouffer, survey data, and spirits from the deep
Empiricism: a slippery slope perhaps, but also one hell of a ride