Wiley: Committed to integrity? Get out!
“We have initiated post-acceptance peer review with independent reviewers… ” – Wiley.
Tag: mathematics
Chen bacon sausage and Chen; Chen egg Chen Chen bacon and Chen…
Smut Clyde chases the ubiquitous multifaced Chen twins.
Schneider Shorts 1.04.2022 – Chernobyl Fools
Schneider Shorts 1.04.2022 – Bottomless stupidity of Russian fascists, with a Welsh hand-reading eugenicist, a man who cures everything with glutathione, a match made in heaven, sad mathematicians who can’t party in St Petersburg, a reminder that Elsevier is a predatory publisher, and how coffee can cure anxiety.
Schneider Shorts 17.12.2021 – Bully for You!
Schneider Shorts 17.12.2021 – Russian mathematicians plead for support of abused colleague, bullying MRC boss to head EMBO, two scientists retracting their second paper, another Uyghur genomics paper retracted, mass-retractions at papermill-infested journal, COVID-19 cure from Florida, and a dead harasser’s sister fundraising to sue his victims.
Smut Clyde’s Flying Circus
And now for something completely different.
President’s Award for Outstanding Creative Activity
En-Bing Lin “has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, received over $535,000 in grant funding and given 74 external presentations, including 14 keynote speeches at international mathematic conferences.”
Seb Falk’s The Light Ages: book review
This is my review of the book “The Light Ages” by Seb Falk. Turns out, there was much learning and scientific inquiry going on in the Middle Ages!
Begger’s test for Schrödingerean predator-prey system
Why is it that nobody remembers the name of [the famous mathematician] Johann Gambolputty…
Editorial rejection: “you are not citing articles of Statistical Papers”
The journal Statistical Papers, with editorial office at the University of Dortmund rejects all manuscript submissions if the authors do not cite papers from this Springer-published journal. The editors claim it is not about impact factor rigging.
The darkness of Lulea
Lulea University of Technology is a dark and violent place, according to these victim accounts. Bullying, blackmail, sexual nepotism, robbery and even threats of physical violence and suicide are not unheard of. LTU leadership seems to be part of the problem, and money plays a role.
For Better Science 