Why write papers for free when you could write them for a papermill for $$$?

Hello, I'd like to invite you to do my laundry for me. If you accept, I ask that you do my laundry in the next 7 business days. If you decline, please give a reason, and recommend 2-3 colleagues who can do my laundry instead. No, of course there's no payment, what a crazy idea

Two days ago, a lawfirm filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against 6 commercial publishers (incl Elsevier & Wiley) in the federal district court in New York. They allege a 3-part scheme on part of publishers. 🧵 lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars. Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature. The lawsuit

My hottest take is I don’t think a massive number people in academia are that smart, which is why they are unemployable elsewhere. I think they become very pedantic people that learn a ritualistic way of communicating that sounds smart, but if you really examine it - all it

Wondering now if the PhD is worth it

Here's a simple thing Vivek Ramaswamy Elon Musk and Department of Government Efficiency could do to slash science bureaucracy, save billions of dollars *and* make science work better for the public - place the results of all Federally funded research in the public domain.

“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist.” - David Attenborough

Metrics fraud on ResearchGate | buff.ly/3OAq3MT

Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity. Already has 85M+ views on X/Twitter. Most people criticizing her don't understand her argument at all. I have a PhD in

Confidence intervals are confusing intervals. The reason is because they tell us something about what happens across many confidence intervals, not in any single confidence interval. In the long run, 95% of 95% CI contain a population parameter. 1/n

seriously struggling to comprehend the total and utter detachment from reality one must have to think that a PhD thesis about the description of smell in the English literature will be "one of the most influential theses of the 21st century"

Sci-Hub and Library Genesis has been defined in the literature as 'Black Open Access' model. In the last few months I've been working on a paper, where I explain that Sci-Hub is actually 'Red Open Access' while Library Genesis can be understood as a subtype of 'Green Open

HOLY SHIT, breaking news!!! Chemosphere (Chemosphere) has been delisted by Clarivate !!! Will this be a wake up call for Elsevier to tackle all the #papermill #fraud and #corrupt editors in their journals??

Biology papers be like "The nucleus is part of the cell and contains a lot of DNA. Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2)-mediated deposition of H3K27me3 establishes domains of facultative heterochromatin, silencing gene expression in a developmentally regulated manner."

OH MY FUCKING GOD. YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS RUNS ON MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF UNPAID LABOUR YOU HYPOCRITICAL SHITGIBBONS.

Me after defending my dissertation:

This is the most accurate meme ive seen so far. What a strange time to be alive. h/t /u/Necessary-Drummer800 /r/singularity

The vast majority over discoveries are low hanging fruit when they are made. The key to scientific progress is progressively making more fruit low-hanging. One of the deep problems we have in science is that we reward the people who pick the fruit rather than the ones who lower