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user: if any professor is reading this: please do not praise students keeping their presentations much longer than you said it should be because it covers more. it is unfair and an obvious sign of obliviousness. it is nonsense. please. if you tell your students to keep their presentations at a certain length, do not praise the ones who go above the set time limit by half an hour and praise their work for its depth. this has happened to me second time now. my professor asks me to cover one of the most controversial and comprehensive subjects in social sciences in 10 minutes and rolls their eyes for it not having elaborated enough in certain aspects while praising the 40-minute-though-supposed-to-be-10-minute presentation of my classmate for covering more on the same subject. if there are any professors reading this; please don't do this. some students put a lot of work into making the damn presentation as concise as possible and literally rehearse a few times so that they do not go over the time limit. covering more by going waaaay above the limit you yourself set is not something to be encouraged. nor is it fair. bot: i did a poster presentation where the time limer was 5 mins, including questions. i presented within the time limits, but no one else in my group did. the « winner » was a student that went 5 minutes over time. it sucked because i could have done a lot better with that 5 extra minutes too...	user: if any professor is reading this: please do not praise students keeping their presentations much longer than you said it should be because it covers more. it is unfair and an obvious sign of obliviousness. it is nonsense. please. if you tell your students to keep their presentations at a certain length, do not praise the ones who go above the set time limit by half an hour and praise their work for its depth. this has happened to me second time now. my professor asks me to cover one of the most controversial and comprehensive subjects in social sciences in 10 minutes and rolls their eyes for it not having elaborated enough in certain aspects while praising the 40-minute-though-supposed-to-be-10-minute presentation of my classmate for covering more on the same subject. if there are any professors reading this; please don't do this. some students put a lot of work into making the damn presentation as concise as possible and literally rehearse a few times so that they do not go over the time limit. covering more by going waaaay above the limit you yourself set is not something to be encouraged. nor is it fair. bot: i feel really lucky that i didn't experience this in my program. it was geared towards practitioners so the time limit on presentations was a hard limit. if a policy maker wouldn't sit through it because it was too long the faculty member would cut it off.
user: if any professor is reading this: please do not praise students keeping their presentations much longer than you said it should be because it covers more. it is unfair and an obvious sign of obliviousness. it is nonsense. please. if you tell your students to keep their presentations at a certain length, do not praise the ones who go above the set time limit by half an hour and praise their work for its depth. this has happened to me second time now. my professor asks me to cover one of the most controversial and comprehensive subjects in social sciences in 10 minutes and rolls their eyes for it not having elaborated enough in certain aspects while praising the 40-minute-though-supposed-to-be-10-minute presentation of my classmate for covering more on the same subject. if there are any professors reading this; please don't do this. some students put a lot of work into making the damn presentation as concise as possible and literally rehearse a few times so that they do not go over the time limit. covering more by going waaaay above the limit you yourself set is not something to be encouraged. nor is it fair. bot: i did a poster presentation where the time limer was 5 mins, including questions. i presented within the time limits, but no one else in my group did. the « winner » was a student that went 5 minutes over time. it sucked because i could have done a lot better with that 5 extra minutes too...	user: if any professor is reading this: please do not praise students keeping their presentations much longer than you said it should be because it covers more. it is unfair and an obvious sign of obliviousness. it is nonsense. please. if you tell your students to keep their presentations at a certain length, do not praise the ones who go above the set time limit by half an hour and praise their work for its depth. this has happened to me second time now. my professor asks me to cover one of the most controversial and comprehensive subjects in social sciences in 10 minutes and rolls their eyes for it not having elaborated enough in certain aspects while praising the 40-minute-though-supposed-to-be-10-minute presentation of my classmate for covering more on the same subject. if there are any professors reading this; please don't do this. some students put a lot of work into making the damn presentation as concise as possible and literally rehearse a few times so that they do not go over the time limit. covering more by going waaaay above the limit you yourself set is not something to be encouraged. nor is it fair. bot: absolutely, meeting a time limit is a skill that need to be practiced. i am in math and my supervisor is fond of quoting (well, paraphrasing) pascal saying "i have made this letter longer than usual because i have not had time to make it shorter".
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: using wtf as a keyword surelly sets an impact factor over 9000	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: those acknowledgements though😂😂😂
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: using wtf as a keyword surelly sets an impact factor over 9000	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: lmao i am dead
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: “more research is warranted” has always been the biggest cop out.	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: don’t these journals ask for a hefty fee? did the professor actually pay money to get this published?
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: “more research is warranted” has always been the biggest cop out.	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: lmao i am dead
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: “more research is warranted” has always been the biggest cop out.	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: those acknowledgements though😂😂😂	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: lmao i am dead
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: perhaps a little less complex, but there's also the classic paper "get me off your fucking mailing list."	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: lmao i am dead
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: perhaps a little less complex, but there's also the classic paper "get me off your fucking mailing list."	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: at my university (edit: i do not live in the us), if you publish even in lower tier legitimate journals, that counts against you. so this guy's resume must be bulletproof for him to take a hit like that
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: perhaps a little less complex, but there's also the classic paper "get me off your fucking mailing list."	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: that fucking graph/figure. hahahaha	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: at my university (edit: i do not live in the us), if you publish even in lower tier legitimate journals, that counts against you. so this guy's resume must be bulletproof for him to take a hit like that
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: that fucking graph/figure. hahahaha	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: probably more views than the typical publication	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: at my university (edit: i do not live in the us), if you publish even in lower tier legitimate journals, that counts against you. so this guy's resume must be bulletproof for him to take a hit like that
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: probably more views than the typical publication	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: added this to my mendeley	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: at my university (edit: i do not live in the us), if you publish even in lower tier legitimate journals, that counts against you. so this guy's resume must be bulletproof for him to take a hit like that
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: added this to my mendeley	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: my new goal is to find a way to reference this paper somehow in one of my own.	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: at my university (edit: i do not live in the us), if you publish even in lower tier legitimate journals, that counts against you. so this guy's resume must be bulletproof for him to take a hit like that
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: my new goal is to find a way to reference this paper somehow in one of my own.	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: don’t these journals ask for a hefty fee? did the professor actually pay money to get this published?	user: after receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled "what's the deal with birds?", which got published. here's a small excerpt from the paper: > abstract: many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? this is a common query. birds are pretty weird. i mean, they have feathers. wtf? most other animals don’t have feathers. to investigate this issue, i looked at some birds. i looked at a woodpecker, a parrot, and a penguin. they were all pretty weird! in conclusion, we may never know the deal with birds, but further study is warranted. > keywords: birds, ornithology, behavior, phenotype, wtf, genomics, climate change you can read the pdf version of the original article here: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/sjrr.ms.id.000540.pdf alternatively, there's a press summary of the situation here: https://gizmodo.com/sketchy-science-journal-publishes-article-titled-whats-1842924936 bot: this is great, love it! thank you for sharing.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: i'm getting pretty sick of writing papers for free. for my phd and postdoc i've worked on other people's big projects. every time they strategically keep me in the lab for the entire duration of the fellowship with no time to write, knowing full well that i have to write papers to get a job, and that i'll do it for free when the fellowship is over just to try to keep up.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: i could probably write more if not reviewing 3+ papers per each published. i had no idea it was that many until i looked up my reviewer stats.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: i'm getting pretty sick of writing papers for free. for my phd and postdoc i've worked on other people's big projects. every time they strategically keep me in the lab for the entire duration of the fellowship with no time to write, knowing full well that i have to write papers to get a job, and that i'll do it for free when the fellowship is over just to try to keep up.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: one way i'd think about it is if you're not planning to submit your own papers to journals in the future, then you don't need to review for them. if you do, and aren't expecting to pay others to review your paper for you, then you're kind of being a hypocrite.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: this “publication-review-journals” is one of the most fucked up systems there is. we work like crazy to have publications ready (lab/field/writting) for zero money, plus many times we loose even our rights to our own papers. it is absolutely insane and abusive. people assuming op is being malicious for pointing that out is insane. this kind of thinking will keep feeding this machine. us pals should be more united and have each others backs like in other fields. on top of that, salaries received for universities/industry employment should not be factored in. you are producing new information and using that for handing out tenures and such is borderline blackmail, seeing that not everyone will be able to pay fees for publishing in high-impact journals, have time to review and still pay the bills. we should be paid for our services, especially if it’s in this weird cycle. sadly, it does not look like we will find a solution soon enough. we are kind of trapped in this toxic situation having to overwork for free and having to do it with a smile on our faces. edit: i do not mean to point fingers, just trying to speak my mind. this topic is such a huge cancer in academia it makes me mad.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: aren’t you already paid for ‘service’ - employment contracts might mention say 10% of your time to be dedicated to service. you don’t owe more than that. just make a weekly time budget, and anything that requires more than that is a red line.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: this “publication-review-journals” is one of the most fucked up systems there is. we work like crazy to have publications ready (lab/field/writting) for zero money, plus many times we loose even our rights to our own papers. it is absolutely insane and abusive. people assuming op is being malicious for pointing that out is insane. this kind of thinking will keep feeding this machine. us pals should be more united and have each others backs like in other fields. on top of that, salaries received for universities/industry employment should not be factored in. you are producing new information and using that for handing out tenures and such is borderline blackmail, seeing that not everyone will be able to pay fees for publishing in high-impact journals, have time to review and still pay the bills. we should be paid for our services, especially if it’s in this weird cycle. sadly, it does not look like we will find a solution soon enough. we are kind of trapped in this toxic situation having to overwork for free and having to do it with a smile on our faces. edit: i do not mean to point fingers, just trying to speak my mind. this topic is such a huge cancer in academia it makes me mad.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: i'm with you op. i'm particularly annoyed at one journal that asked me to review about a week before the pandemic 'hit' and then sent annoying e-mail reminders every 2 weeks until i sent the review (despite me e-mailing them back the first time saying i couldn't review while providing full time childcare and inviting them to find an alternative reviewer if they couldn't wait). i think i'm at the point where i'm going to do my own boycott of journal reviewing. (up to now i've reviewed around 3 times as many papers as i've published and the majority of journals in my subject have 1, or 2, reviewers so i'm "up".) i'll make exceptions for massive breakthroughs or work of students/postdocs who really need it.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: this “publication-review-journals” is one of the most fucked up systems there is. we work like crazy to have publications ready (lab/field/writting) for zero money, plus many times we loose even our rights to our own papers. it is absolutely insane and abusive. people assuming op is being malicious for pointing that out is insane. this kind of thinking will keep feeding this machine. us pals should be more united and have each others backs like in other fields. on top of that, salaries received for universities/industry employment should not be factored in. you are producing new information and using that for handing out tenures and such is borderline blackmail, seeing that not everyone will be able to pay fees for publishing in high-impact journals, have time to review and still pay the bills. we should be paid for our services, especially if it’s in this weird cycle. sadly, it does not look like we will find a solution soon enough. we are kind of trapped in this toxic situation having to overwork for free and having to do it with a smile on our faces. edit: i do not mean to point fingers, just trying to speak my mind. this topic is such a huge cancer in academia it makes me mad.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: you should feel free to turn down a request to review if you aren’t interested in the topic. that’s how i decide what to review - whether or not i actually want to read the paper. it won’t hurt your tenure case if you occasionally say no.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: this “publication-review-journals” is one of the most fucked up systems there is. we work like crazy to have publications ready (lab/field/writting) for zero money, plus many times we loose even our rights to our own papers. it is absolutely insane and abusive. people assuming op is being malicious for pointing that out is insane. this kind of thinking will keep feeding this machine. us pals should be more united and have each others backs like in other fields. on top of that, salaries received for universities/industry employment should not be factored in. you are producing new information and using that for handing out tenures and such is borderline blackmail, seeing that not everyone will be able to pay fees for publishing in high-impact journals, have time to review and still pay the bills. we should be paid for our services, especially if it’s in this weird cycle. sadly, it does not look like we will find a solution soon enough. we are kind of trapped in this toxic situation having to overwork for free and having to do it with a smile on our faces. edit: i do not mean to point fingers, just trying to speak my mind. this topic is such a huge cancer in academia it makes me mad.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: exactly, i stopped helping those greedy publishers review papers for a while. unless the paper title and abstract really interests me, i don't review.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: tbh, i wish for profit publishing houses would get lost. nature's making a move to own academic publishing at all levels of journal quality and it's just not cool. you get better service from most societies too. now i just need to convince myself not to send the good work to the nature empire, and convince the funders that society journals should be perceived as prestigious as nature's topical collection.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: you should feel free to turn down a request to review if you aren’t interested in the topic. that’s how i decide what to review - whether or not i actually want to read the paper. it won’t hurt your tenure case if you occasionally say no.
user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: tbh, i wish for profit publishing houses would get lost. nature's making a move to own academic publishing at all levels of journal quality and it's just not cool. you get better service from most societies too. now i just need to convince myself not to send the good work to the nature empire, and convince the funders that society journals should be perceived as prestigious as nature's topical collection.	user: how about we stop working for free? just this month i was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. i understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during covid times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the work and these companies get all the money? honestly, i feel like it’s passed time we start refusing to review articles without minimum compensation from these for-profit journals. field of research: neuroscience/biophysics title: ph.d. country: usa bot: exactly, i stopped helping those greedy publishers review papers for a while. unless the paper title and abstract really interests me, i don't review.
user: i flunked someone for plagiarism. i just discovered they hired a pi to investigate me. does anyone have experience with this? i’m in a tenure track position in the social sciences at a school in the midwest. last semester, i flunked a student for plagiarizing part of a paper (it was a clear case of copy and paste from an obscure source). the student did not take it well. things are winding their way through the administrative process. it has come to my attention that this disgruntled student has apparently hired a private investigator to follow me and look into my life. i feel extremely violated. however, it has unfortunately also come to my attention that this pi has learned that i am in an open relationship. i suspect this would not be well received by my department and would likely jeopardize my ability to get tenure. it has been strongly implied that details of my personal relationship will be leaked to the department unless i stop pursuing internal discipline against the student. however, it’s not clear to me that i could stop the proceedings even if i wanted to. what exactly am i supposed to do in this situation? bot: this will sound harsh and unpopular, but grow some backbone and stand for your way of life. if this is frowned upon by a place you spend over 8 hours each weekday, you're in the wrong spot and you're supporting a system that undermines something you value a lot. it's difficult to do this, given you might have to provide for a family and run the risk of losing job security, but if the alternative is to live a lie for a third of your life, the choice seems easy to me.	user: i flunked someone for plagiarism. i just discovered they hired a pi to investigate me. does anyone have experience with this? i’m in a tenure track position in the social sciences at a school in the midwest. last semester, i flunked a student for plagiarizing part of a paper (it was a clear case of copy and paste from an obscure source). the student did not take it well. things are winding their way through the administrative process. it has come to my attention that this disgruntled student has apparently hired a private investigator to follow me and look into my life. i feel extremely violated. however, it has unfortunately also come to my attention that this pi has learned that i am in an open relationship. i suspect this would not be well received by my department and would likely jeopardize my ability to get tenure. it has been strongly implied that details of my personal relationship will be leaked to the department unless i stop pursuing internal discipline against the student. however, it’s not clear to me that i could stop the proceedings even if i wanted to. what exactly am i supposed to do in this situation? bot: is being in an open relationship against the terms of your contract? regardless of whether it's right or wrong...if it's in your contract, it's in your contract. all-else considered, the school should protect you from this. you were literally doing your job. however, it sounds like this student comes from a fairly wealthy family...and money talks to universities as we've seen in the media recently. just in case the school does not take your side...i'd lawyer-up immediately. also might be time to throw your resume around to some colleagues at other institutions.
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i never thought about it but now that you mentioned it... yess!!! its kind of like when you read a review paper and they cite many other original research papers, and you wanna get through all of them but you dont have the time to do so. when you do attempt to get through them, you find yourself going down a rabbit hole. one paper leads to 10 other papers and each of the 10 papers lead you to another 10 papers... it never ends!! then the timer goes off, you gotta run back to the lab to change whatever solution you've got your tissue incubating in. and those papers that you've found will be left as tabs on your browser, never looked at again (but never closed too). until one day, your computer freezes up and you gotta force shutdown your computer.	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i have nothing other to say than: yes, i know that feeling.
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i had this feeling when i was in grad school. now, it's more that i'll never have time in this life to create all the things i want to: books, games, etc., that will never see the light of day. otoh, that means i'll never be bored. i'll never run out of things to learn, do, and try. i try to keep my focus on that side.	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i'm more sad that i can't have chips every day without getting spherical.
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i had this feeling when i was in grad school. now, it's more that i'll never have time in this life to create all the things i want to: books, games, etc., that will never see the light of day. otoh, that means i'll never be bored. i'll never run out of things to learn, do, and try. i try to keep my focus on that side.	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i used to feel that way until corona hit and i had to scrub my research project. three months into quarantine and i’m still sitting here trying to work up the will power to get better at coding.
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: chaucer had the same feeling: “the lyf so short the craft so longe to lerne.“ one of the quotes i most strongly identify with	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i'm more sad that i can't have chips every day without getting spherical.
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: chaucer had the same feeling: “the lyf so short the craft so longe to lerne.“ one of the quotes i most strongly identify with	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i used to feel that way until corona hit and i had to scrub my research project. three months into quarantine and i’m still sitting here trying to work up the will power to get better at coding.
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: yes, but add on top of that being an artist, writer, and pianist. i feel like i'll just die a mediocre jack of all trades... i'm envious of people dedicated to being amazing with one thing, whether an artisan or just the most knowledgeable in one area.	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i do!
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: no. as soon as you realise the depth of our lack of understanding of the details of everything, it is immediately apparent you will never be an expert in everything. there are people who spend life times mastering individual skills and areas of study. the days of being able to know everything about everything that was known died out - literally - thousands of years ago. so, you can sit and feel sad about it, or you can accept it and get on with doing what you can do. and - if you want a productive career in academia - that means you also need to give yourself peace and time to develop new knowledge and learn. there are tens of thousands of scientists working in related fields to all of us. either we can spend our lives reading every minuscule byte of related information, or we can get ourselves to a working knowledge of a niche and try and contribute. i'm totally accepting and content with the idea that i will never be able to read lots of interesting things. because the trade off is that i get to do lots of interesting and new things. the idea that you might get sad at not being able to read all the things feels a bit too close to the mentality of wanting to passively learn rather than actively do research (i.e. the step change between undergrad and grad education). because you could always be reading someone else's work rather than doing your own.	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: i do!
user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: no. as soon as you realise the depth of our lack of understanding of the details of everything, it is immediately apparent you will never be an expert in everything. there are people who spend life times mastering individual skills and areas of study. the days of being able to know everything about everything that was known died out - literally - thousands of years ago. so, you can sit and feel sad about it, or you can accept it and get on with doing what you can do. and - if you want a productive career in academia - that means you also need to give yourself peace and time to develop new knowledge and learn. there are tens of thousands of scientists working in related fields to all of us. either we can spend our lives reading every minuscule byte of related information, or we can get ourselves to a working knowledge of a niche and try and contribute. i'm totally accepting and content with the idea that i will never be able to read lots of interesting things. because the trade off is that i get to do lots of interesting and new things. the idea that you might get sad at not being able to read all the things feels a bit too close to the mentality of wanting to passively learn rather than actively do research (i.e. the step change between undergrad and grad education). because you could always be reading someone else's work rather than doing your own.	user: do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? i was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. like idk, completing that list of books with important authors in your field which gets longer and longer while keeping up with the recent findings in your field. or learning that additional programming language or further practicing the one your familiar with. or learning one more additional language. and all of that on top of the workload you already have. sometimes that makes me really sad because there are just so many things i am interested in and curious about but the more i study the things the longer the list of things i want to learn more about gets. idk if you can relate but i just wanted to share this and i would be really interested to see what you think about this! bot: yes. i think about this a lot. i just try my best to learn as much as i can in the moment.
user: why did i pursue a phd if it has not led to any opportunities? i’m feeling pretty down at the moment. i’ve been applying to tt jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. i received my phd from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. i’ve published 10 papers in mid-tier journals. yet it’s all been for nothing. i can’t get a job for the life of me. i’ve applied to probably almost 100 professor jobs with no success whatsoever. 4 year r1 schools, slacs, and community colleges all have rejected me. i’m willing to relocate anywhere in the country. there’s too few jobs and i just don’t cut. i’m almost 35 now with a salary that an undergrad straight out of college wouldn’t be thrilled with. and i’ve busting my ass for more than a decade for pretty much nothing. no upside, no new or exciting opportunities, nothing. it sucks. i would have been better off teaching high school instead of trying in to break into higher ed. i’ve learned the hard way that the phd pays in prestige, but you can’t eat prestige. why did i do this to myself? any one else feel this way? bot: sorry to hear this. as someone who nope-d out of academia pretty much after defending, i have mixed feelings about this, but they're mostly positive. there's a part of me that wishes that academia was what i dreamt it was, and a part of me that wishes i had succeeded, despite it being not what i had hoped. but i don't regret anything. i went to grad school because i loved science - not for the money (lol), or the prestige, but because i loved it as a way of acquiring knowledge and learning about the world. that's still true today, and it will probably be true my whole life. for me, that realization helped me overcome what i think a lot of people fear when they think about leaving academia: "will i ever be able to love something as much as this?" and just like the ending of a bad relationship, despite my feelings to the contrary at the time, the answer is yes. but more importantly, it doesn't matter even if the answer is "no", because from what you describe, it doesn't matter how much you love academia, academia does not love you back.	user: why did i pursue a phd if it has not led to any opportunities? i’m feeling pretty down at the moment. i’ve been applying to tt jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. i received my phd from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. i’ve published 10 papers in mid-tier journals. yet it’s all been for nothing. i can’t get a job for the life of me. i’ve applied to probably almost 100 professor jobs with no success whatsoever. 4 year r1 schools, slacs, and community colleges all have rejected me. i’m willing to relocate anywhere in the country. there’s too few jobs and i just don’t cut. i’m almost 35 now with a salary that an undergrad straight out of college wouldn’t be thrilled with. and i’ve busting my ass for more than a decade for pretty much nothing. no upside, no new or exciting opportunities, nothing. it sucks. i would have been better off teaching high school instead of trying in to break into higher ed. i’ve learned the hard way that the phd pays in prestige, but you can’t eat prestige. why did i do this to myself? any one else feel this way? bot: what is it in? can you go into industry?
user: why did i pursue a phd if it has not led to any opportunities? i’m feeling pretty down at the moment. i’ve been applying to tt jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. i received my phd from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. i’ve published 10 papers in mid-tier journals. yet it’s all been for nothing. i can’t get a job for the life of me. i’ve applied to probably almost 100 professor jobs with no success whatsoever. 4 year r1 schools, slacs, and community colleges all have rejected me. i’m willing to relocate anywhere in the country. there’s too few jobs and i just don’t cut. i’m almost 35 now with a salary that an undergrad straight out of college wouldn’t be thrilled with. and i’ve busting my ass for more than a decade for pretty much nothing. no upside, no new or exciting opportunities, nothing. it sucks. i would have been better off teaching high school instead of trying in to break into higher ed. i’ve learned the hard way that the phd pays in prestige, but you can’t eat prestige. why did i do this to myself? any one else feel this way? bot: sorry to hear this. as someone who nope-d out of academia pretty much after defending, i have mixed feelings about this, but they're mostly positive. there's a part of me that wishes that academia was what i dreamt it was, and a part of me that wishes i had succeeded, despite it being not what i had hoped. but i don't regret anything. i went to grad school because i loved science - not for the money (lol), or the prestige, but because i loved it as a way of acquiring knowledge and learning about the world. that's still true today, and it will probably be true my whole life. for me, that realization helped me overcome what i think a lot of people fear when they think about leaving academia: "will i ever be able to love something as much as this?" and just like the ending of a bad relationship, despite my feelings to the contrary at the time, the answer is yes. but more importantly, it doesn't matter even if the answer is "no", because from what you describe, it doesn't matter how much you love academia, academia does not love you back.	user: why did i pursue a phd if it has not led to any opportunities? i’m feeling pretty down at the moment. i’ve been applying to tt jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. i received my phd from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. i’ve published 10 papers in mid-tier journals. yet it’s all been for nothing. i can’t get a job for the life of me. i’ve applied to probably almost 100 professor jobs with no success whatsoever. 4 year r1 schools, slacs, and community colleges all have rejected me. i’m willing to relocate anywhere in the country. there’s too few jobs and i just don’t cut. i’m almost 35 now with a salary that an undergrad straight out of college wouldn’t be thrilled with. and i’ve busting my ass for more than a decade for pretty much nothing. no upside, no new or exciting opportunities, nothing. it sucks. i would have been better off teaching high school instead of trying in to break into higher ed. i’ve learned the hard way that the phd pays in prestige, but you can’t eat prestige. why did i do this to myself? any one else feel this way? bot: i do. i did have some good things happen but i am quite disappointed. it's not you, it's the system. you have to be at the right place on the right time. if you feel like staying in academia, take the admin route. working in admin is more secure, gets you on track and later on you can move to the research side. thee is no point in trying to get a goodjob in academia, the generations before us have occupied those positions and won't let go their good salary and pension.
user: why did i pursue a phd if it has not led to any opportunities? i’m feeling pretty down at the moment. i’ve been applying to tt jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. i received my phd from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. i’ve published 10 papers in mid-tier journals. yet it’s all been for nothing. i can’t get a job for the life of me. i’ve applied to probably almost 100 professor jobs with no success whatsoever. 4 year r1 schools, slacs, and community colleges all have rejected me. i’m willing to relocate anywhere in the country. there’s too few jobs and i just don’t cut. i’m almost 35 now with a salary that an undergrad straight out of college wouldn’t be thrilled with. and i’ve busting my ass for more than a decade for pretty much nothing. no upside, no new or exciting opportunities, nothing. it sucks. i would have been better off teaching high school instead of trying in to break into higher ed. i’ve learned the hard way that the phd pays in prestige, but you can’t eat prestige. why did i do this to myself? any one else feel this way? bot: i can relate. i found a decent position, but i've always kept my eye an the market and applied to the more "dream" schools since i've graduated. i only had one finalist interview at a "fancy" school. as usual, someone better connected than me with more pubs got the position. it's really rough out there. i can really relate to what your saying. my phd experience was traumatic, and my advisor committed suicide when i was writing. i was almost booted from my program because the other major professor didn't like my topic. i was able to graduate super fast, but i think maybe only recently can i honestly say that it was worth getting the degree. once of the things that i've had to do is branch out a bit into other areas of interest, and be flexible with the work that i do. don't box yourself in to the tenure track only dream that gets sold to us. it's just not possible for most of us. focus instead on what you can do creatively, and how you can make a living at the same time.	user: why did i pursue a phd if it has not led to any opportunities? i’m feeling pretty down at the moment. i’ve been applying to tt jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. i received my phd from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. i’ve published 10 papers in mid-tier journals. yet it’s all been for nothing. i can’t get a job for the life of me. i’ve applied to probably almost 100 professor jobs with no success whatsoever. 4 year r1 schools, slacs, and community colleges all have rejected me. i’m willing to relocate anywhere in the country. there’s too few jobs and i just don’t cut. i’m almost 35 now with a salary that an undergrad straight out of college wouldn’t be thrilled with. and i’ve busting my ass for more than a decade for pretty much nothing. no upside, no new or exciting opportunities, nothing. it sucks. i would have been better off teaching high school instead of trying in to break into higher ed. i’ve learned the hard way that the phd pays in prestige, but you can’t eat prestige. why did i do this to myself? any one else feel this way? bot: what is it in? can you go into industry?