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ScottMacShack

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Psychologist to the birds.
I study bird behaviour, including cognition, evolutionary ecology, and neural/endocrine mechanisms.
Author of Evolution and Psychology (Sage Publications)

Professor, Western University
Department of Psychology
Advanced Facility for Avian Research

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Marrekoo, to phdlife Dutch
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Just being a newbie in writing for academic journals, how bad is it if reviewer 1 is like "great idea, well written, but x,y,z need some more attention", reviewer 3 is like "nice work, interesting points, though I miss a,b" and reviewer 2 is like "I thought this would be good but it's meh, you're too far from this journal's standard and why would this be novel cuz don't see it." ? @phdlife @academicchatter

Oh yeah. I have a 10k word count limit, already at 9993.

ScottMacShack,
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@Marrekoo @phdlife @academicchatter that is about as good as it gets so bask in the positive reviews.

AlexSanterne, to academicchatter
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"Saying NO !" decision tree for

I just found this awesome flow chart providing an accurate decision tree on when and how to say at work.

I'm gonna print it and stick it on my office door !

@academicchatter

credits: Gabriel Bosslet

ScottMacShack,
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@AlexSanterne @jaztrophysicist @academicchatter
Replace "No" with "Dump the work on other people and your flowchart will be more accurate.

elmyra, to academicchatter
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Boosting this for @academicchatter: friends, a question: I've been asked to peer review a book manuscript and offered an "honorarium in books". I don't work for for profit companies for free so I'm not doing it. They have also asked me to recommend other potential reviewers if I can't do it. I'm on the fence as to whether to do that because, again, they'll be asking for free labour. What are your thoughts?

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@elmyra @academicchatter Fully respect your position. For many academics, though, conducting peer review is part of the job and is not free labour

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@elmyra @academicchatter In my case conducting peer review for manuscripts and grants is an expected part of “external service” as a faculty member at my university.

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@paulralph @seresearchers @academicchatter tbh I mostly use graphpad prism. It is awesome for most basic stats and makes excellent figures. Well worth the price.
I understand the appeal of R but for Anovas it may not be worth the learning curve.

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ScottMacShack,
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@prachisrivas @abolisyonista @academicchatter I agree with this. The purpose of the citation is to allow one to find the source. I think most academic journals would require the citation and reference to match the published record. Cite the work, not the person.
If one is writing about a person I would absolutely use their current preferred name in the text, but the reference section should match the published record.

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