Hi academic friends,

I’ve just received an invitation to review a paper for the journal PeerJ https://peerj.com/

Do you have any experience with this journal/publisher?
It has an impact factor and is indexed in the usual databases. It seems to have even won some awards. I couldn’t find it on any lists of predatory journals.

But… I hadn’t heard of it before, and some aspects feel a bit suspicious to me.
Any experiences? Thanks!

#academicchatter #peerreview #academia

extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.

reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.

Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det giver stort indtryk om lige præcis hvor imponerende EU er efter tusinde år af mere eller mindre konstant krig i Europa.
Jeg får også lyst til at starte en ny europæisk bogklub til at lære om vores fælles europæisk naboer samt læse nogle gode bøger jeg ellers ville aldrig har kommer til. Nogen der har lyst til at komme og læse med i hovedstaden?

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I’ve almost finished a short history of Italy, and it really brings home just how impressive the EU is after a thousand years of more or less constant war in Europe.
I’m now also keen to join/start a European book club to learn about our fellow European neighbours and read some good books I’d otherwise never get round to. Anyone fancy joining me in or around Copenhagen?

#bookstodon #bogstodon #dkæs

It's fun how, even as a pretty senior person, you end up in research projects with PhD candidates or postdocs who assume you an expert while you panicky try to read up on what you are working on and at least understand the basics enough to be able to follow and usefully contribute.

In other news: X-ray polarization is weird.

#AcademicChatter #astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays

Together with Clara Wanjura, we are delighted to announce the second instalment of our workshop on neuromorphic computing taking place 10-12 June at the @MPI_ScienceOfLight Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany.

👉 Registration and abstract submission will be open until 12 April.

For further information, please visit the event website: https://indico.mpl.mpg.de/event/27/

#artificialintelligence #neuromorphic #workshop