#Peer Review

[probablyasocialecologist]

More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier.

The entire academic board of the journal Neuroimage, including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges.

Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in academic publishing, which outstrip those made by Apple, Google and Amazon.

Neuroimage, the leading publication globally for brain-imaging research, is one of many journals that are now “open access” rather than sitting behind a subscription paywall. But its charges to authors reflect its prestige, and academics now pay over £2,700 for a research paper to be published. The former editors say this is “unethical” and bears no relation to the costs involved.

Professor Chris Chambers, head of brain stimulation at Cardiff University and one of the resigning team, said: “Elsevier preys on the academic community, claiming huge profits while adding little value to science.”

He has urged fellow scientists to turn their backs on the Elsevier journal and submit papers to a nonprofit open-access journal which the team is setting up instead.

He told the Observer: “All Elsevier cares about is money and this will cost them a lot of money. They just got too greedy. The academic community can withdraw our consent to be exploited at any time. That time is now.”

Elsevier, a Dutch company that claims to publish 25% of the world’s scientific papers, reported a 10% increase in its revenue to £2.9bn last year. But it’s the profit margins, nearing 40%, according to its 2019 accounts, which anger academics most. The big scientific publishers keep costs low because academics write up their research ��� typically funded by charities and the public purse – for free. They “peer review” each other’s work to verify it is worth publishing for free, and academic editors collate it for free or for a small stipend. Academics are then often charged thousands of pounds to have their work published in open-access journals, or universities will pay very high subscription charges.

[i-amusemyself]

me: peer review is an essential part of the scientific process and helps maintain trust in and integrity of the research we publish

also me, the second anyone suggests an edit to my work:

[vintagegeekculture]

One of the things that dignified peer reviewed medical journals have done more than once to “let their hair down,” is that around Christmastime, they often write editorials or publish journal articles explaining what they think was wrong with Tiny Tim from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This is the equivalent of a day where your lame office job encourages you to come to work with a crazy Mexican sombrero.

Typical of this would be the American Journal of Disabled Children, who in 1992 (December issue, obviously), argued that Tiny Tim had Renal Tubular Acidosis, which stunts growth and if left untreated, is lethal, but if caught, could be cured by 1840s medicine. Actually, it’s a pretty good case of deductive medicine.

A little more high effort was an editorial in the Journal of Infectious Diseases from December 1997, they make up a fictional story that the grave of Tiny Tim – dead at age 40 – was unearthed and that he had Potts’ Disease or Tuberculosis of the Spine, which ultimately killed him decades later. That sounds tragic, but I suppose a happy ending is only happy depending on where you choose to stop telling it. I wonder if the person who wrote this was familiar with Philip Jose Farmer’s attempted genealogies of 19th Century adventure characters, like how he argued Sir Denis Nayland Smith, enemy of Fu Manchu, was a nephew of Sherlock Holmes through his younger sister. Win Scott Eckert, the most famous fan of PJF, is a medical doctor. So, hmm…

PJF fans were really ahead of their time in that they had that urge Marvel fans do, where they were “good at cataloguing, but not at synthesis.”

[aithusiel]

A yes, the three kinds of Autism:

(RE: was found on video referencing Autism)

[simmyfrobby]

as foretold by the viaplay guy

[is-the-post-reliable]

the dogs talking with buttons thing is pretty controversial. many people compare it to koko the gorilla, nim chimpsky, clever hans, etc. afaik there's no scientific backing for the "talking dogs" not being a matter of anthropomorphising combined with basic operant conditioning (push button + receive food)

i appreciate that you were just fact-checking the specific reblogged claim about dogs *understanding* words, but i wanted to poke at the green "reliable" rating on a dog speech button post!

oh this is a totally valid point that didn't occur to me until reading this. I have a bad habit of assuming that some stuff is obvious to everyone, when it's only obvious if you are knowledgeable on the subject. I was aware that it was a subject of debate with no strong evidence that it was a real phenomenon, and assumed that it was the rest of the information that the request was for

Thanks for pointing this out, I will edit the post to make it clearer!

[weirdbeancurd]

i am so hyped about my own fic lol

its gonna have it all (except sex because i dont know shit about sex)- angst, self-hatred, existentialism, whump, hurt/comfort, reconciliation, apologies, acceptance, hope, and of course a happy ending. A lot of it is based on my own experiences, and I think it makes their thoughts/actions more genuine (and meaninful). There's a lot I want to cover, and I don't intend on half assing it! I putting my whole ass in this fic. Not literally. I'm not going to flash you guys lmao I really do hope I have the motivation to finish this, yall might need to nag me to lol. Feel free to scream at me or smth Also I'm looking for people to peer review if interested? (I've posted a little snippet on my blog, dm/comment/reply for more) Thanks!!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My classmates and I were peer reviewing each other’s essays and this one guy (who’s a douche) used an em dash followed by a comma, like so: —,

[thatoneluckybee]

Okay so this is interesting,

Found a study while looking something that suggests ADHD may contribute to lower cold and pain tolerance (I.e. suggesting if you have ADHD you may report more pain or cold than non-ADHD peers.) I've never considered this but it's a good read and is good to know!

(Feel free to add to or lmk if there's anything else you know about this topic or can find)

[fandom-hoarder]

Grabbing these tags by @deanwinchesterpregnant from this post to expand.

Because yes, this is a very important part! Sam says it, too!

And while there ARE Sam haters that will say "Sam doesn't know how much Dean sacrificed!" and mean it as a JUDGEMENT and omg wooby!Dean; there are also people like me, who started writing s1 Sam POVs to understand him better, and suddenly connected him to my little brother like, 'OH. Sam doesn't KNOW. How COULD he know??😭' and it's not a judgment of his character or his love for Dean! And he's not stupid! They're both just kids who have yet to work through their own shit enough to realize they don't know EVERYTHING about each other, despite their shared history. It's part of why Sam says in In My Time of Dying that they were "just starting to be brothers again."

Obviously it's a necessary part of s1 to give us, the viewer, expositional glimpses into Sam and Dean's inner workings. But the way they each react to certain new revelations about each other are still canon even if there are Doylist reasons.

It's canon that Sam didn't know Dean carried him out of the fire. It's canon that Dean has felt responsible for Sam almost being eaten by a shtriga since he was 9/10 years old, and it's canon that Sam never even knew that happened. It's canon that the memory of Mary was so coveted by Dean and John that Sam has virtually no connection to her; no stories and no echoes of her in the way they live other than the infamous Winchester Surprise.

It's canon that Sam doesn't really have any happy holiday memories, and Dean does. It's canon that their perspective on the same shared holidays is completely different. It's canon that Dean stole Christmas decorations and presents for Sam and apparently none for himself. And it's canon that Sam realized Dean did that for him and gave him his only present. And it's canon that remembering that made grown-up Sam want to give Dean Christmas even though it meant admitting something hurtful to himself. (John not showing up for Christmas/Dean's last Christmas)

If you put yourself in Sam's shoes--- a kid left alone for most of his formative years; unable to put down roots and make friends; whose best friend, the only one who could even try to understand him, is his good little soldier brother--- it's easier to understand why Sam felt lonely and became a much more introspective person. Because he was literally stuck with just his thoughts and anxieties and the TV for days at a time. When you think about how sick he must've been about it, every time Dean and John would leave. Waiting for that next phone call. Biting his fingernails when the call was late. Wanting to be invited to prove yourself, but also because if you're THERE at least you KNOW what happens.

But then, too, if you can put yourself in Dean's place: it's not necessarily something a kid or young adult can fully appreciate--- especially a somewhat emotionally immature young adult--- that their little sibling is a completely autonomous person with their own inner life. They don't just pause when you leave their sight. Dean throws himself into the hunt, and isn't thinking about how much Sam is worrying about them. He's thinking, "Sam is safe, so I can focus on backing Dad up."

It sounds selfish, but it's simply a fact of the maturing brain that it takes some time to comprehend someone else's existence outside of you as a real thing and not just a vague concept.

So, to touch on another aspect that gets discoursed:

There ARE a lot of things about Dean's parentification that Sam doesn't know at first, but he has always known about it to SOME degree. He had his own perspective on it, and for sure I wouldn't say that Sam thought of Dean as his parent. Dean has definitely always been his older and somewhat overbearing big brother. But who do you think Sam took his problems to? Who threatens to rip his bully's lungs out in After School Special? Who remembers what fucking play Sam did in drama?

And a short related aside--- thinking about how Sam was surprised about the things of his John had in storage. His surprise that John kept an eye on him at Stanford. And relating these things that changed Sam's understanding of his father, to the way his understanding of Dean shifted with each revelation of what Dean had done for him. And despite everything Sam ALREADY knew, his adult brain and life experiences gave him new perspective on things.

This maybe is a little rambley, but oh well. What was I saying...

Oh yeah. So sometimes people get upset about Dean being given like. More praise than he deserves or something, by having those "you practically raised me" lines and things. As if it's a retcon. But it's really not.

It's Sam growing up, and his brain constantly taking in new information and reshaping his understanding. It's Sam seeing how much Dean blames himself for things that weren't his fault, and wanting Dean to see the good he's done. It's Sam being able to see Dean's heart underneath his codependent or selfish decisions, and reaching out. It's Sam trying to remind Dean he can lean on Sam, too.

I've gone off on a tangent and made myself tear up lol. I don't remember where I wanted to end up anymore. Somewhere in the ether there's another rant about how Dean has a harder time allowing himself the introspection on his perception of Sam, and how this leads to Sam having to do a lot of the leading on the emotional maturity of their relationship, and how hard this is when the person you're leading still sees you as their kid, in whatever capacity.

But ultimately, of COURSE Sam does as much for Dean. Of course Sam has agency in this and isn't Dean's baby that had a pampered childhood vs Dean's horrible one. Sam and Dean acknowledging the actual circumstances of their childhood dynamic doesn't have to be a Samgirls vs Deangirls fucking situation lol.

[equinesandeducation]

Officially handed in our article for review, which means I need to start working on my thesis 😭 drafted the first outline of my introduction and I. am. struggling!!!! I’ll get there but I am going to complain about it the whole time 😎

[2-the-moon-and-2-saturn]

my favorite thing in the genre of ‘tumblr practices that Just Make Sense (no they don’t. like, at all)’ is that if you have an addition to make to a post, you must do it in the tags until it passes peer review and someone else screenshots this and makes those tags permanent in the post. HOWEVER, if your addition does pass peer review, the person who screenshots your tags will caption it with ‘how DARE you hide this in the tags’

[kayvsworld]

whew i just wrote an essay in ur comments MY BAD LOOOOL anyways im in my marvel renaissance i love ur iron man analyses

never apologize for essays in my comments I NEED SMARTER PEOPLE PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON WHAT I'M SAYING ldkgjhfkjdgkh PLEASE

[reestallized]

reviewing gimmicks on my straw.page:

idk who drew this but. dogy!!

im not sure who drew this either (might be tik) but it has something to do w the next one i think

this one has to be @doodlejoltik for sure. i can recognize your style by a mile. (also rei n akari chilling while the clan leaders argue in the background is SO real)

[cryptidwithaninternetconnection]

Look???? At how my brother writes low case As????

Mf that’s a fancy 2????