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Will Gray

@kau I’ve never experienced worse editorial handling than at Nature brand journals - we had a paper at Nat Comms (which did eventually come out there) where the editor rejected it after multiple rounds of review because one of the reviewers (who we’d already flagged as problematic) sent in a review for a completely different manuscript and the editor didn’t realise and rejected it. They then proceeded to ignore all of our emails until we got their senior editor involved. Crazy

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Eric Scott

I spent SO MANY HOURS in grad school manually adjusting peak baselines and deciding what should or shouldn't count as a peak and then going back and doing it all again because I called it a peak in one sample but not the other. I'm SO happy that progress is being made on this problem and very excited to read this preprint!

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

#GCMS #LCMS #XCMS #AnalyticalChemistry #Chromatography
#Metabolomics

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Andrew Dessler
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Here’s a video of the intense + in central that occurred just now. Wow!

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Holy moly! That was a crazy strong storm here in huge stones!!

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Deborah Lee Soltesz

#Flagstaff #Arizona #sunset #monsoon #azwx

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Kelly Hereid

Ok @kau, when are you going to launch a diamond open access climate journal? Have seen quite a few cooking in geo side, like Seismica, Tektonika, Sedimentologika, Volcanica, Geomorphica... We even just launched one on disaster risk, @JournalCRR.

But no climate, somehow... I smell a project ;)

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Dr Sam Burgess 🌊 🌍 💸

Following the hottest June on record and a series of extreme weather events, ERA5 data from the @CopernicusECMWF show that the first three weeks of July have already broken several records.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #opensource #OpenScience #WMO #ECMWF

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Pascal Mickelson

@kau Proliferating journals under the same corporate umbrella always struck me as having your cake and eating it too. “No, we don’t want your paper in your journal of choice, but we don’t want publishing fees or prestige to go to a competitor so here’s another less-relevant/crappier/catch-all journal for your consideration.”

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This article starts off with “One clear benefit of the increasing number of Nature-titled journals is that there is a destination for many more excellent papers than used to be possible, with the ability to transfer a manuscript to another title if the author’s first choice doesn’t work out.” — at what price have you we bought into this “clear benefit” 🫠

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Around ~10-12 years ago, Nature tried to “disrupt” the publication market & flooded it with journals without providing resources to ensure long-term success nor thinking about the impact it would have… this has led to sustained mediocrity, dwindling integrity, & disingenuous “high impact” publications that they profit off of — another Great disservice to the already awful publication landscape that scientists face today. nature.com/articles/s41561-023

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Teal

Coming to Mastodon from Twitter feels like busting in the door loudly brandishing a half drunk bottle of tequila and finding everyone sitting in horrified silence holding cups of tea and academic papers

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New species of (Globigerinoides rublobatus) erected from sediments in the tropical Ocean — from the Journal of by Latas & colleagues: jm.copernicus.org/articles/42/

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Tucson Sentinel

17 years after being dropped from endangered list, tiny pygmy owl gains new protections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Once at the center of fights over land use around Pima County, the rare, diminutive and publicly prominent cactus ferruginous pygmy owl will again be protected under federal law.
#Tucson #Arizona

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Dr Micha Campbell

This is a lovely article about Australian Ghost Bats - except it repeatedly implies that insect-eating bats aren't carnivorous? Ummm

#bats #GhostBat #CosmosMagazine

cosmosmagazine.com/australia/g

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Thanks to wintertime rains (and a little in Spring), seems like 2023 is a median year so far for in , in spite of the scorching (and dry!) June.

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Very grateful for touching down yesterday evening in , !

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Julian Oliver

The widely told hero story that Britain innovated the technique to make wrought iron from scrap, propelling it in the Industrial Revolution as a powerhouse, turns out to be false.

Named after the British entrepreneur that capitalised upon it, the 'Cort Process' to make wrought iron was in fact stolen from 76 black metallurgists near Iron Bay, Jamaica. Cort patented it in the 1780's, claimed to be inventor, & forcibly shut down the Jamaican foundry.

New research:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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Daniel Bellingradt :mastodon:

Just a printed image of thousands of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies fighting in a battle with tiny weapons. You see part of an allegory of the struggles of a Protestant spider and a Catholic fly in sixteenth-century England.

The author, John Heywood, published the book in 1556: 456 pages, 98 chapters.

The story: A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle.

#bookhistory #histodons

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Alison Fisk

An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own

Read more: en.natmus.dk/historical-knowle

#Archaeology

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