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Applications to ECODIM XII 2025 are open until September 15th.
ECODIM (https://ecodim.imo-chile.cl/) is a 3-weeks international postgraduate (masters, PhD and early career researchers) school in microbial ecology, coordinated by the University of Concepciรณn (Chile). It combines classes and lab work.
New preprint lead by Elianne Egge and Bente Edvardsen on the distribution of parasite alveolates in the Arctic Ocean around Svalbard during the Micropolar cruises
Post doc position at Univ of Oslo on Plankton
Through EU Horizon Marie Skลodowska-Curie Action 18 post-doctoral positions (3 years) are available at the University of Oslo (UiO).
Looking for potential candidates interested in building an application within "ONEPlankton - interconnecting methods for high-throughput phytoplankton diversity" research area.
Deadline: 4th April 2024
Starting date: Oct 1, 2024
ONEplankton: https://www.uio.no/dscience/english/dstrain/research-areas/biosciences/oneplankton---interconnecting-methods-for-high-thr/
Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/255679/dstrain-msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-computational-and-natural-sciences-18-positions
Blue carbon will not solve climate change. The effect is too small; existing sediment carbon stock is a liability; and there is a timescale mismatch between ancient fossil fuel emissions and uptake by vegetation. Clearer communication would support informed decision-making.
The strain on scientific publishing ๐:
The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistingsโฆ JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
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#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm
Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was approximately ~47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth - if any - in the number of practising scientists. Thus, publication workload per scientist (writing, reviewing, editing) has increased dramatically. We define this problem as the strain on scientific publishing. To analyse this strain, we present five data-driven metrics showing publisher growth, processing times, and citation behaviours. We draw these data from web scrapes, requests for data from publishers, and material that is freely available through publisher websites. Our findings are based on millions of papers produced by leading academic publishers. We find specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year, contributing to this strain. Some publishers enabled this growth by adopting a strategy of hosting special issues, which publish articles with reduced turnaround times. Given pressures on researchers to publish or perish to be competitive for funding applications, this strain was likely amplified by these offers to publish more articles. We also observed widespread year-over-year inflation of journal impact factors coinciding with this strain, which risks confusing quality signals. Such exponential growth cannot be sustained. The metrics we define here should enable this evolving conversation to reach actionable solutions to address the strain on scientific publishing.
Presenting the Roscoff Culture Collection at the European Phycology Meeting in Brest.
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