Sometimes you think so hard about life and you forget to live it.

Imagine how many problems we could solve in academia if we stopped trying to be better versions of each other and focused on being better versions of ourselves

Twelve tips for getting your manuscript published #Research #Researcher #Academia #AcademicTwitter

Retiring from #academia means no longer having to attend a multitude of ill-conceived hence unproductive meetings.

Retiring from #academia means no longer being concerned with citation counts and other dubious metrics that are a poor measure of a faculty member’s actual value.

Apophenia: The tendency to see patterns in random data.

Resistentialism is the belief that inanimate objects are out to get you: tables and shop displays bumping into you; toast landing butter-side down; sellotape hiding its end/sticking to anything other than what’s needed.

I would argue that prolific academic researchers are less likely to be intellectual giants than they are to be people who simply finish manuscripts.

Can you ever have enough ramekins? #Cooking #food

#30DayMapChallenge 2022 map collections and most-liked tweets have been updated to the homepage. Go admire 🎉 30daymapchallenge.com/2022/ 8446 maps were posted to Twitter alone! Thank you!

#fridayreads Working my way slowly through Papyrus by Irene Vallejo. Too good to rush through. #book #History

Fact: socialism has killed a lot more people than climate change.

[Publication] Before going into the new year, catch up on the state of the #ocean in 2022. Discover key numbers, challenges and opportunities for our ocean in the State of the Ocean Report 2022 👉 ow.ly/aK4m50Mbr63

"Religion isnt so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

Phrase of the day: Anachronistic Sanctimony; accusing ancient individuals or groups of violating today's ethical norms; more generally flowing values, beliefs, and standards backward in time.

I’ve decided that I don’t like “people first.” People aren’t “first on the list.” People ARE the organization. People are not “organizational assets” or “human resources.” People ARE the organization.

"Intentions don't matter. Actions do. That's why being ethical is hard." Naval

We are all just children walking around in adult bodies wanting to be heard, seen, accepted, and loved.

1. JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator) jane.biosemantics.org Just copy the abstract of your paper and JANE will suggest some journals that publish similar research to yours.

2. B!SON - The Open-Access Journal Recommender This tool compares the similarity of your paper to those available in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It might find some cool journals to place your research you might not even heard about.