Michele Avissar-Whiting 🎗️ @maw_tweets Twitter profile

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Michele Avissar-Whiting 🎗️

@maw_tweets

1 month

Nature now charges $12,290 US to publish a single article open access. Shall we list some things that cost less than that? I'll go first: a 2017 BMW 330i sedan, a 7-day cruise for a family of four, six Louis Vuitton purses. 🤪

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Don't know who made this, but 🤣

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As some others have already pointed out, these prices were there before open access; they were just baked into subscriptions. The second best thing OA did was to make these numbers evident to everyone, not just to the libraries footing the bill.

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Here's a new one. An author wants their preprint removed because the journal is forcing them to pay (substantially) for OA as a condition of publication since the work is already public. 😑

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Today we found a preprint in which the author lifted the entire paper from a conference proceeding, torturing each and every sentence to completely avoid plagiarism detection and literally duplicating the figures. The paper was submitted to a journal and sent to review. /1

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I have some exciting news to share 🤩 📰: I will be taking a new position as Program Officer, Open Science Strategy at Howard Hughes Medical Institute later on this month. I am so thrilled to be joining such an incredible organization and eager for the fun challenges ahead. 1/2

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PSA to preprint worriers: Many of the preprints we refuse to post because they are ethically unacceptable, obviously pseudo-scientific, or contain wild, unsupported claims are later published in journals. Many.

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@maw_tweets

4 years

@HenMazzig #JewishPrivilege : the privilege of escaping violent dispossession (Farhoud) in Iraq on father's side and near annihilation (Shoah) in Hungary on mother's the privilege of being the world's eternal scapegoats

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2 years

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. Want to make it really difficult to quietly commit egregious publication fraud? Make preprints mandatory.

Guest Post - The 10,000-watt Bulb: How Preprints Shine a Light on Misconduct - The Scholarly Kitchen

Michele Avissar-Whiting of Research Square discusses the value of preprints for uncovering unethical and fraudulent research behaviors early in the publication process.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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My mom writes down all of the wordle answers in a graphing notebook. She is retired (duh). Can anyone guess what her profession was?

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@maw_tweets

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One great thing about negative results publications is that you can be just about certain they’re not fabricated.

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@Thatsregrettab1 Eh, calling out how absurd the symptoms have gotten is one way to bring attention to the disease. I assume people know I do more than that. Also, it's fun to think of things that cost $12,000 - try it! How about 2,238 crunchwrap supremes?

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@Jackstilgoe Yep. This is why it's important that preprint servers be included in iThenticate checks.

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@TelepathHealth I like how your mind works.

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2 years

she is a 5' nuthin little Hungarian woman, she'll drink any hard liquor you've got, kick your ass in any game involving words or math, and rattle off a couple dirty jokes while she's at it. In short, she's the very, very best mommy.

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@DoctorZen I would instead ask "what should we pay for?" And the answer is services, not selection.

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@igordownunder Depends how you look at. What you pay out of your grant/budget is a choice. The money could go to something else.

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3 years

@rafsanchez it's really moving!

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@TaliaRinger I was flooded with emotion for the next few hours. It was the happiest, most hopeful I’ve felt about this situation since 10/7.

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@sche_wach I don't think I said they should settle for any less or suggested that they are not rational actors. The point was to think of other things that cost $12,000 because it's funny.

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@maw_tweets

2 years

But now that its up as a preprint, the next journal will be able to catch it in their plagiarism screen and see the withdrawal note we will soon be attaching to it.

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@maw_tweets

2 years

Great story that not only highlights admirable humility in a scientist but also the importance of sharing code.

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@maw_tweets

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@VicVijayakumar This is the appropriate level for me at age 40.

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@maw_tweets

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@TaliaRinger We both said something like “what are the odds?!” and then “Everything’s really shit, isn’t it?”. We talked a bit about the conflict and the corruption of leadership all around. But we spent the rest of the flight talking about food from home and sharing pictures of our children.

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Pretty audacious to not only do this and try to get it published but also post as a preprint. It has been rejected by the journal, so under normal circumstances, it would just quietly move on to another journal.

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@maw_tweets

5 years

My 8 year old won her school science fair today for her project simulating the greenhouse effect and @KenCaldeira 's Budyko's Blanket proposal. 🌍⛅️

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@maw_tweets

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From here, scientists who submit to @eLife will be signalling a few important things: they are a) open to transparent assessment and dialogue b) ready to be part of the solution to so many problems c) done with the journal prestige game.

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@maw_tweets

6 years

@sapienist @NRA @NRA Lucky for you, doctors fix all tattered bodies without regard for politics or membership in a gun cartel. The way things are going, not unlikely you or someone you love will need to cash in on that charity one day.

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2 years

Posting this not to virtue signal but to provide 2 more data points for parents who are on the fence because it’s reasonable to be nervous. After shot 2, 11yo had a very sore arm and was mildly achy next day. 6yo had no complaints at all. Feeling super grateful today.

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@maw_tweets

3 years

Preprints have been scapegoated relentlessly for the "spread of misinformation", especially during the pandemic, when it suddenly and rightfully became unthinkable not to preprint. A little thread...

Joseph Esposito

@JosephJEsposito

3 years

The problem is not with preprints but that preprints are OA. Preprints don't need paywalls; they need "authority walls," making specialized content available only to trained professionals. [Covers head as firestorm begins.]

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@cshperspectives In my experience, it's pretty depressing the degree to which practitioners do not follow the literature.

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2 years

Ah, you all made my day with your responses 🥰. My mom was a Professor of Molecular Bio and Biochem. She has a PhD in Plant Physio, but her research breadth was much wider. She is the smartest person I've ever met, an eternal optimist, and the most patient of teachers. Also...

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1 year

Loving this proposal from @cshperspectives : Let's formalize preprint review as part of PhD/PD training. Barrier to entry is low and potential value high. #RecognizingPreprintReview Here's what an early career CV *could* look like:

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Proposed formats for citing preprints with reviews and preprint reviews themselves (based on NIH preprint citation scheme) @IratxePuebla #RecognizingPreprintReview

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4 years

@mbeisen Just tape together a 6x6 array of saltines.

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@maw_tweets

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@TaliaRinger An young Arab-looking guy sitting next to me on a recent flight asked if I’m Palestinian. I said “No”, and with a smile, “do I look Palestinian?”. He said “Yes!”. And then I said “Actually, I’m Israeli. Are you Palestinian?” He said “Yep!”. Instant cold sweat, but then…

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3 years

@ANNVYSHINSKY @phl43 More like “Humanist resources”, amirite?

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@maw_tweets

6 years

Fuck the NRA

xapienist

@sapienist

6 years

@NRA My lane as Pediatric ICU physician: why don't YOU try being the person who has to go into a room & tell a family the worst possible news they are ever going to hear because the damage their kid came in with was beyond our saving? Not only is this OUR lane, YOU ARE IN IT. #GetOut

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2 years

TIL there's an institution in Turkey called Batman University and the seal is a HUGE missed opportunity.

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@maw_tweets

2 years

I posted my very first preprint! 🥳 It's a short report about what happens when a journal-published version of a preprinted article gets retracted. ⬇️🧵

MetaArXiv Bot

@metaarxiv

2 years

Downstream retraction of preprinted research in the life and medical sciences

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The recent conversations about research integrity largely miss what I think is the root cause for a lot of fraud: that a journal publication has become the most valuable currency in research. Preprints take the magic out of publishing and that is a very good thing for science.

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@maw_tweets

3 years

On the bright side, the 5 year old has spent the last 18 months perfecting her broad-winged hawk call, and now the hawks call back to her! #lockdownkids

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@maw_tweets

3 years

We already consider some arthropods delicacies. It’s arbitrary. Let’s do this thing.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

3 years

Which is why the idea of eating pests and invasive species is so exciting. It's not just the idea that you're eating "guiltless" food, it's the weird sense that maybe we can turn the destructive power of the capitalism machine on things we want to get rid of. 6/

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3 years

What swag? 😉 @scite

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4 years

@dgaboriau Is it out of scope? 😬

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@maw_tweets

2 years

Every scientist makes mistakes. The best scientists correct the record.

Myriam Sander

@myriam_sander

2 years

most difficult tweet ever, but here we go: MANUSCRIPT RETRACTION ALERT! We discovered a serious error in our preprocessing pipeline that affected our results presented in two recent papers: and

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3 years

Hey all, I'm on NPR's Reveal this week talking about #preprints ! My bit is around minute 9:15, but the whole episode is great...all about bright spots in the pandemic.

Reveal

@reveal

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Racial justice. Police accountability. Mutual aid. Climate activism. Warp speed vaccines. On the latest episode of Reveal, we examine the ways #COVID19 changed American society.

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Has anyone studied what has happened to our perception of time in the last 21 months? Two years seem to have evaporated, and yet events that occurred just a few months ago feel eleventy years in the past. Is everyone experiencing similar distortions?

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@maw_tweets

2 years

Home from Chicago and entering the ambivert’s post-social hangover. My brain is all abuzz from IRL time with the loveliest, smartest people, who I’ve only known through screens these last two + years. #SSP2022

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@lpachter Those examples were meant to be funny and draw an analogy with other luxury goods that try to signal status. For much better, more relevant examples, see the thread and retweets.

Alicia Kowaltowski

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A year's pay for a Brazilian post doc on a federal fellowship.

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@DsSvetlov 🤣 🤣 all of these things try to send a signal about your status that may or may not be true. The car might get you a date, the cruise makes your friends feel they’re failing at life, the bag elicits jealousy, even among those who think it’s ugly.

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3 years

Preprints are to journal articles as tap water is to bottled water. It's not perfect, but I kind of like this analogy. 🙂

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4 years

This event is making a mockery of the traditional science publishing model, and everyone knows it. #openaccess #openscience

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2 years

Reason #351 to hate zoom webinars: wore my cool new bolo tie, but no one saw it because that camera angle would have been weird.

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Actually, I'm finding that the preprint shift is shining some light into a lot of dark, smelly spaces in publishing lately. Maybe it's time to write about it. 5/5

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And then we just have to wake up the next morning and send our babies to school…

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@maw_tweets

4 years

Feeling a wide range of emotions taking this on at such a strange and wild time, but mostly just humbled and very excited for the challenge!

Research Square

@researchsquare

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Introducing Research Square's new Editor in Chief, Michele Avissar-Whiting, PhD @maw_tweets

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And when issues are caught during review, what happens? I'm very curious to know if journals ever alert institutions to fraud caught before publication. Because if not, then cheaters need only find a weaker point of entry.

Roger C. Schonfeld

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2 years

“Journals and granting institutions don’t know how to deal with image manipulation...They’re not subjecting images to sophisticated analysis, even though those tools are very widely available. It’s not some magic skill. It’s their job to do the gatekeeping.”

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Post preprints.

Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪

@JiaqiLiu_soc

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I suspect a senior scholar has plagiarized my work during peer review. They rejected my submission but published an article with similar arguments. What can I do? This isn't the first time this senior scholar has plagiarized my work. Meanwhile, my article kept getting rejected...

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Thanks for the laughs and nerdy chats @GunterMGroup , @TobyABGreen , @heatherstaines , @TAC_NISO , @davidacrotty , @rharington , @TimHVines , @john_w_warren , @DeckerLucke , @GazelleInDminor , @IjadMadisch , the inimitable @weequipped , and many others I can’t find on Twitter!

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7 months

Every quote I wanted to grab broke my character limit, so I'll just grab what I think is the most important line in this essay, which is the last one: "It is more than publishing that needs to be reformed."

Richard Sever

@cshperspectives

7 months

Big new article from me in @PLOSBiology on the past, present and future of science publishing. 6n 🧵 on what I try to do here. (RTs appreciated). 1/n

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Major takeaway from #PRC9 last week: There is quite a healthy corpus emerging regarding the lack of meaningful changes between early preprint versions and corresponding journal published articles.

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I just read that a healthy daily portion of cheese is about the size of a matchbox lol I’m gonna die soon

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Imagine the hellscape we'd be living in with delta and no vaccines.

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Today we received a submission of a new cosmological theory. It was hand written on 3 pieces of what appeared to be receipt paper, front and back, and photographed with a phone, which is casting a shadow on the paper. I couldn't possibly make this up.

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@michaelhoffman

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It was a real honor to sit alongside brilliant panelists @mehmanib , @SianHarris8 , @elepre17 & @DarlaPHenderson to earnestly discuss challenges in establishing credibility & trust in and increasingly open & fast-paced publishing world. Thanks to @NISOInfo for hosting!

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We've been sending out emails asking authors to update us re the publication status of their preprint (filling in gaps of automation). One author has responded with: "Define 'published'...the latest preprint version is available for anyone to review, cite, etc" Touché, sir.

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My little one refers to her birth as when I ‘hatched’ her and I may never be ready to correct her.

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2 years

And sabbatical starts....now! 😌

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3 years

Today, my little Hungarian mother asked my little American daughter if she likes "Bob the Sponge". 🤣

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2 years

Just experienced my first journal rejection in over 10 years. Wow, forgot how much that sucks!

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3 years

One day, my 5 yo will stop saying “renember”, and I will be sad.

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@maw_tweets

4 years

Pardon me while I boost the signal here. I'm so proud of what this scrappy little team has achieved in 18 months! Go @researchsquare ! 💪

STM Publishing News

@STM_Publishing

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Research Square Reaches 20,000 Preprints - #STM

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Cardamom macarons. You guys…

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3 years

My little article about misconduct and preprints is on @scholarlykitchn today...already some fun comments 😛. Feel free to jump in if you have something to say!

Guest Post - The 10,000-watt Bulb: How Preprints Shine a Light on Misconduct - The Scholarly Kitchen

Michele Avissar-Whiting of Research Square discusses the value of preprints for uncovering unethical and fraudulent research behaviors early in the publication process.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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After two weeks in the dark on his whereabouts, my family can now lay him to rest. Ben Benyamin Cohen was murdered at the Nova festival. May his memory be a blessing.

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Kindergartener is doing her Black History Month project on ⁦⁦ @JordanPeele ⁩ 😍

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I'm confused about the people confidently stating "I had BA2 back in April" or "just caught BA5 at a conference". Are y'all sending your stuff off for sequencing?

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What a great honor to be the first returning guest on this lovely podcast!! Thank you, @JACoates , for the opportunity to talk about my work on downstream retractions of preprints.

Preprints in Motion podcast

@MotionPod

2 years

🎉 EPISODE 28 OUT NOW!🎉 This week we have our first ever return guest, as @researchsquare Editor-in-Chief Michelle Avissar-Whiting ( @maw_tweets ) catches up with us about her recent work on #preprint withdrawals and paper #retractions (Links below) #SciComm #OpenScience

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It has been a real joy to join forces with @OA_Works to make sense of the great morass of publication data! 🥂

OA.Works

@OA_Works

1 year

🎉Big news! @HHMINEWS is now using to implement their #OpenAccess policy! Learn how supports their mission to advance biomedical research and science education 🧬🔬:

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Me: *Long rant about my professional confidence* @VicVijayakumar : I’m gonna ask you to read a book. Me: Is it Range? Vic : It is Range.

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@maw_tweets

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@AcademicsSay In other words, people are more likely to cite articles that they can read past the abstract.

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@maw_tweets

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Great to see this work out (and note that its conclusions haven’t changed meaningfully relative to the preprint 😜)!

PLOS Biology

@PLOSBiology

2 years

What's the difference between a #preprint and the final published paper? Two back-to-back studies in @PLOSBiology scrutinise this: a deep/narrow one from @JACoates &co and a broad/shallow one from @GreeneScientist &co

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Stating that a preprint whose conclusions you dislike is a "piece of shit" or "nonsense" or "garbage" helps absolutely no one if you don't elaborate. Write a review, state your case - the comments section is right there for you.

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@maw_tweets

4 years

@mbeisen similar dissonance described here:

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@maw_tweets

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Teacher: What are you thankful for? My daughter: I am Thankful to be safe from Covid and I am thankful for every doctor and scientist who is helping find a vaccine.❤️❄️☀️🌈🎉

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2 years

Part of what's tripping people up is that @eLife has introduced a revision to the well-established term "peer-reviewed article". In this new context, it becomes literal and no longer carries an opaque and ultimately empty promise.

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3 years

As of today, both of my parents are fully vaccinated...some weight has lifted. 😌

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@maw_tweets

3 months

I’m so looking forward to seeing this figure in every serious talk about the perils of AI in scholarly publishing.

Dr Charlotte Houldcroft is on maternity leave

@DrCJ_Houldcroft

3 months

Erm, how did Figure 1 get past a peer reviewer?! H/T @aero_anna

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2 years

Much better batch today…even got little feet!! (Yes, I know there not supposed to have pointy tops)

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@maw_tweets

2 years

The @BeyondMeat sausage is very, very good. Not “good for a meat alternative” - but seriously, stand-alone good.

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@maw_tweets

1 year

It happened suddenly, after decades of apathy, but now loading the toilet paper roll with the end under has become unconscionable.

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1 year

Prestige is what authors are currently choosing to pay big APC $$ for...but when thinking about preprint review as a product, prestige is not what we should be looking to replicate. @weinberz #RecognizingPreprintReview 👏

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@maw_tweets

1 year

There is nothing - nothing - more depressing than hearing my 7 year old recount a lock down drill at school. "I hid behind the teacher's desk. My teacher locked the door. We had to be quiet. Then someone tried to get in."

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@maw_tweets

2 years

11 y/o, while baking me a soft pretzel: would you like tea or alcohol with that? 😬

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@maw_tweets

2 years

I’d like to propose a new unit of time. A covidYear, which is = to ~3.27 calendar months. “Hey, remember Halloween?” “Dude, that was a nearly a covidYear ago.” It just works.

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@maw_tweets

2 years

I can’t bake for shit. So I figured the first thing I attempt in my new stand mixer should be macarons.

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@maw_tweets

2 years

My kingdom for an AirBnb with just one knife that is sharper than a spoon.

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2 years

I'm also leaving, with sincere gratitude, an organization that has been my home for nearly 11 years. I will miss my fellow Squares so much. @researchsquare , thank you for letting me be a part of your story and for such a rewarding and exciting decade. 💕 2/2

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