"Whilst the manuscript might not make it into {journal}, I do hope by some chance it makes it onto your refrigerator, a notice board, an email, somewhere children might be able to discuss it but most importantly I hope it creates conversation and thought."
What can I say? It did make onto my fridge, and it certainly created a lot of (very awkward) conversation. Why bring kids into this though, I don't know.
Such a mood...
Cat is outsourcing its #editorial work to a machine... #EditorInDisguise #OverlyHonestEditor
What can I say, it does a really good job! Now onto checking how it frames rejection letters.
Cat ponders on the silliness of #journals struggling to come up with policies to prevent chatbots from being named authors on papers, even though current rules around #authorship criteria already cover it enough (AI cannot take responsibility for content, is as simple as that).
Here is what ChatGPT thinks.
Funnily enough based on this pretty decent definition, many human people should not be listed as authors either.
#OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing #PublicationEthics
Cat went to a work function and discovered that being anonymous rarely means being anonymous.
Too many "so are you that overly honest cat" questions...
If you liked the idea of Ts as error bars, you will love *that*:
https://mival.netlify.app/blog/2023/01/introducing-geom_terrorbar/
So the paper with letter T instead of error bars got #retracted earlier in December:
https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/22/that-paper-with-the-t-error-bars-was-just-retracted/
Thinking of this I came to realisation that I'm never going back into #academia (would not actually be that surprising for a professional #editor to go back, happens a lot). The reason?
Because I couldn't stop thinking that I would've done it better #OverlyHonestEditor
Which is also to say: don't try to trick me. I know where all the bodies are buried.
I remain perpetually perplexed about the fact that #academics - you know, people who think they are logical and objective and stuff - when it comes to judging others almost always assume the worst as a starting point.
I mean, forget Hanlon's razor. Even competent people make #errors sometimes. Does not make them bad, mean, nor malicious. #OverlyHonestEditor
Happy Sunday (don't check your emails).
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I will be reposting some old - but never aging - content with #EditorialWisdom tag. Here is the first ever birdpoop, coming at you again:
No, Dr X is not Reviewer #2. Reviewer #2, who hates your work's guts, is actually Prof Y whom you suggested because they told you politely at the conference they find your work "interesting"
Overly.Honest.Editor
