commfox.bsky.social
Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist | Assoc. Professor at Ohio State
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THANK YOU for being there!
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I am also a hobby herper, not an official ologist. From my understanding it is its own species:
srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/scarl...
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This is how reviewing needs to be reframed. Some of us are losing a 2-3 week vacation every year. I will happily make that to help good science improve, or to help at a lower tier journal with pedagogical aims. I can't save science, but I am done giving my time to grifters & journal spammers.
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I feel like emailing editors these days and asking if they've read the paper and can assure me it is worth 6-10 hours of my time. Multiply that by the number of reviewers. Is this paper good enough to justify taking 20, 30, 40 hours away from other scholars? That's a real cost.
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There needs to be a serious reckoning with this. Demands on reviewers are at an all time high and paper quality seems to be at an all time low. I am extremely burned out on dishonest authorship, whether that's AI or people who can't bother to read faking their lit review.
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I mean, "weirdo" would suffice 😂 (Thank you, friend 💙)
Also, you let me know if y'all end up in south Florida sometime and feel like a herping adventure! 🐸🐢🐊🐍
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I'm in a similar situation teaching-wise. Trying to find some geek out opportunities. Thinking about the viability of an informal Midwest meetup for HMC in Aug or September 🤔
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Thank you!!
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Congrats!
--Set a forceful away from office message and don't check your email more than twice a week.
--Explore tangential areas of research you don't know
--Read so much, for work and pleasure
--Do the things you enjoy that you never have time for normally
--Come visit!
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Is there a good bat feed here? Would love to follow!
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I see. Perhaps they have learned to shiv cane toads.
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Congratulations! That's amazing!
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Same and same...spent the screen-less part of my break catching up on my New Yorker backlog ☺️
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Awww. It is unfortunate that they are invasive (and toxic) because they are cute little buggers for sure!
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Yes!! I saw Cane Toads: An Unnatural History in college and have been obsessed ever since.
Found out there are two by the same director (2nd is Cane Toads: The Conquest) and watched that for the first time on Xmas Eve (both are on YouTube). 🐸
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Love the pics! We haven't seen any rat snakes yet--very cute.
It was warm so pretty successful herping last night!
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Wow--thanks for sharing! Does FGCU engage in any mitigation efforts?
It's so warm I'm hoping for some pythons while night #herping this week...
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@mcewan.bsky.social
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Ah. I have a shelf of stuff at my office but a lot of it is dense even for grads.