Zen Faulkes

@DoctorZen
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Biologist at McMaster University. 🦞, 🧠, behaviour, evolution, metascience. Author of Better Posters📕 from Pelagic Publishing.
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It sucks having to update this invasive species map.

You hope and hope that we're going to get luck and there won't be any marbled crayfish in North America, but hopes go astray.

http://marmorkrebs.blogspot.com/2023/08/be-on-lookout-for-marmorkrebs-ontario.html

Be on the lookout for Marmorkrebs, Ontario! Marmorkrebs finally found in North America

Burlington Today is reporting that Marmorkrebs have been found in Burlington, Ontario . The details are hazy.   Marbled crayfish – an aquat...

Next week is the 10th anniversary of the Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA)! https://sfdora.org/dora-10th-anniversary-events/

I'm organizing an online roundtable on Monday, 15 May, 10 am Eastern on "Publisher bans & DORA".

You have probably heard people say, "Don't send papers or review for this publisher". Fine as advice, but should it be POLICY?

Register for the Zoom link: http://bit.ly/DORA10

DORA 10th Anniversary Events | DORA

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

DORA

I've been looking for conference posters in languages besides English, and finally stumbled across one in Russian: http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2022/11/wanted-posters-not-in-english.html

More please!

Wanted: Posters not in English

I’ve been interested in seeing (and showing) posters in languages other than English for a while. No contributions so far. Jay Patel sugges...

Happy Godzilla Day to all who celebrate!
Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals

Three academics tested a theory about the intellectual integrity of peer-reviewed “grievance studies” by cooking up, and publishing, their own.

The New York Times
Magazine article claims some humanities scholarship has gone rotten. Evidence? They got journals to publish hoax papers. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ But many science journals have published hoaxes: https://figshare.com/articles/Stinging_the_Predators_A_collection_of_papers_that_should_never_have_been_published/5248264
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship - Areo

This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship,…View Post

Areo
If I'm good this week, I'll get new #DoctorWho #MondayMotivation
I collect fake papers meant to expose junk journals. https://figshare.com/articles/Stinging_the_Predators_A_collection_of_papers_that_should_never_have_been_published/5248264 Lots of them are funny if you're a pop culture fan.
Stinging the Predators: A collection of papers that should never have been published

This ebook collects academic papers and conference abstracts that were meant to be so terrible that nobody in their right mind would publish them. All were submitted to journals and conferences to expose weak or non-existent peer review and other exploitative practices. Each paper has a brief introduction. Short essays round out the collection.284 pages (version 11.0).Version 1.0 released 26 July 2017.Version 2.0 released 28 July 2017 (two new entries).Version 3.0 released 31 July 2017 (two new entries).Version 3.1 released 7 August 2017 (error corrected).Version 4.0 released 16 February 2018 (one new entry).Version 4.1 released 16 February 2018 (journal PDF replaced copied text).Version 5.0 released 4 July 2018 (one new entry).Version 6.0 released 26 July 2018 (one new entry).Version 6.1 released 28 July 2018 (journal PDF replaced copied text).Version 7.0 released 29 September 2018 (one new entry).Version 8.0 released 3 October 2018 (one new entry with featuring three new papers).Version 8.1 released 4 October 2018 (one new paper added associated with v 8.0 entry; PDF bookmarks fixed).Version 8.2 released 7 October 2018 (expanded introduction associated with v 8.0 entry).Version 8.3 released 30 October 2018 (expanded introduction associated with v 8.0 entry; minor addition to earlier entries).Version 9.0 released 16 March 2019 (new entry).Version 10.0 released 7 April 2019 (new entry; minor update to previous entry).Version 11 released 31 March 2020 (two new entries; minor update to previous entry).

Academic hoaxes! Ever wondered what was the worse fake paper? The most obvious? The funniest? we have 21 contenders in this anthology: https://figshare.com/articles/Stinging_the_Predators_A_collection_of_papers_that_should_never_have_been_published/5248264
Stinging the Predators: A collection of papers that should never have been published

This ebook collects academic papers and conference abstracts that were meant to be so terrible that nobody in their right mind would publish them. All were submitted to journals and conferences to expose weak or non-existent peer review and other exploitative practices. Each paper has a brief introduction. Short essays round out the collection.284 pages (version 11.0).Version 1.0 released 26 July 2017.Version 2.0 released 28 July 2017 (two new entries).Version 3.0 released 31 July 2017 (two new entries).Version 3.1 released 7 August 2017 (error corrected).Version 4.0 released 16 February 2018 (one new entry).Version 4.1 released 16 February 2018 (journal PDF replaced copied text).Version 5.0 released 4 July 2018 (one new entry).Version 6.0 released 26 July 2018 (one new entry).Version 6.1 released 28 July 2018 (journal PDF replaced copied text).Version 7.0 released 29 September 2018 (one new entry).Version 8.0 released 3 October 2018 (one new entry with featuring three new papers).Version 8.1 released 4 October 2018 (one new paper added associated with v 8.0 entry; PDF bookmarks fixed).Version 8.2 released 7 October 2018 (expanded introduction associated with v 8.0 entry).Version 8.3 released 30 October 2018 (expanded introduction associated with v 8.0 entry; minor addition to earlier entries).Version 9.0 released 16 March 2019 (new entry).Version 10.0 released 7 April 2019 (new entry; minor update to previous entry).Version 11 released 31 March 2020 (two new entries; minor update to previous entry).

Last night, The Daily Show covered lobsters getting marijuana to sedate them. Here's more about the SCIENCE about that: http://bit.ly/2DfdLYz
Giving lobsters weed

I’ve been studying issues roiling around the question of “Does it hurt lobsters when they go into a pot?” for about a decade. After ten year...