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Buffy

Dec 4, 2022 23:51

Slashdot: Stanford President investigated for past research misconduct. science.slashdot.org/story/22/12/04/0623244/…

scaaahu

Aug 5, 2018 14:42

I'd like to remind anyone here, whenever you see stuff like this, please raise abusive flag so it will not damage the reputation of site.

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Wrzlprmft

Jul 27, 2018 15:58

Your manuscript "Don't Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free" has also been rejected, but nice try.

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Massimo Ortolano

Jul 29, 2021 15:06

But as far as I recall, the OP gets notified when the question is closed (not 100% sure).

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skullpatrol

Jun 10, 2020 10:43

I'm sorry if you find it offensive.

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Buffy

Jul 20, 2021 12:42

@GoodDeeds, since you are here at the moment, let me thank you, personally, for the vigilance you have been showing in improving a lot of questions. Your username was well chosen.

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Bryan Krause

Nov 9, 2022 15:40

@Buffy No, they are not. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97718/… meta.stackexchange.com/questions/134015/… It's thought that this would crowd the inbox too much, especially because an answer can be edited many times.

Buffy

Nov 9, 2022 14:53

A question for more experienced users, since I don't ask many questions on the site. If an OP gets an answer to their question, they are notified. But are they also notified when edits are made to answers?

Bryan Krause

Oct 31, 2022 14:27

@Buffy If you happen to use Twitter, Elisabeth Bik, the author of that article, is worth a follow: twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest

Buffy

Oct 11, 2022 12:58

I came across this today by accident - so accurate: twitter.com/VergaraLautaro/status/1579483024391307265

Wrzlprmft

May 18, 2021 15:57

smbc-comics.com/comic/science-2

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Meta Academia

Jan 16, 2020 17:52

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Q: Resigning and leaving SE

I have decided that I can no longer contribute my efforts to Stack Exchange and therefore I am stepping down as a moderator and planning on leaving the community. I will not be deleting my accounts or content, but I will not be actively participating. I have been thinking about this for a while a...

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Martin Sleziak

Aug 25, 2022 14:22

The same for tag badges: main, meta.

Martin Sleziak

Aug 25, 2022 14:21

Users with most gold/silver/bronze badges on main and meta.

skullpetrol

Dec 12, 2019 05:04

@Buffy Congratulations on reaching 100K.

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Bryan Krause

Dec 9, 2019 20:05

Cyanobacteria wiped out nearly all life on Earth once before, and they can do it again!

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Bryan Krause

Dec 9, 2019 20:05

We have a new XKCD to reference for all the "my thesis is doomed" questions

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StrongBad

Dec 9, 2019 02:52

I got a hat. I like hats.

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user434045

Nov 29, 2019 22:12

Is there someone with knowledge about Chile? I am asking because of the question academia.stackexchange.com/questions/140843/…

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Buffy

Aug 5, 2022 19:27

I'm very unhappy that the post author took down the following question immediately after I'd spent effort in an answer. It seems like a misuse of the site and the contributors here.

Buffy

Aug 5, 2022 19:27

academia.stackexchange.com/questions/187550/…

Buffy

Jan 30, 2021 13:11

Today's SMBC is worth a look: smbc-comics.com/comic/science-fictions

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Bryan Krause

Jul 20, 2022 14:32

smbc-comics.com/comic/anything-3 ...what your professor really wants...

Meta Academia

Jan 6, 2021 23:04

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Q: Thank you Dr. Buffy, Academia.SE's GOAT

Yesterday, Buffy officially became Academia.SE's user with the greatest all-time reputation score: nearly 169K reputation! In just 2.5 years, Buffy has authored a stunning 3,742 answers and earned 48 gold badges, among many other positive contributions. Academia.SE is lucky to have many highly ac...

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Buffy

Jan 5, 2021 13:57

@18peopleofdifferentcolour Thanks. Hope I've been helpful. I've been having fun, anyway.

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terdon

Jul 31, 2015 14:45

Dear crappy conference spammers, if you want to convince researchers to come to your crappy conference, while it might be a good idea to show pictures of invited speakers (I said might), it is most certainly idiotic and counter productive to do so while graying out their names.

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Massimo Ortolano

Sep 11, 2019 09:07

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user 6232128

Dec 16, 2020 04:56

Winterbash 2020 Hat list 👒 🎩

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Buffy

May 28, 2022 23:35

Article on SlashDot about inadequate salaries for doctoral students in US. news.slashdot.org/story/22/05/28/0315208/…

Martin Sleziak

May 22, 2022 11:51

Users with most Great/Good/Nice Answer badges: main, meta.

AncientSwordRage

Apr 11, 2022 16:53

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 2 hours ago, by Cereal Bot

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posted on April 11, 2022 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Thank you to patreon typo squad for finding the one typo amongst 8 trillion words. Today's News: Remember when people used to read the little blog posts under comics? They don't now, so I can write whole lines of gibberish, squinkle dabyougargh nunglepeep.

skullpatrol

Jun 10, 2020 09:11

#ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM

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Massimo Ortolano

Jun 9, 2020 10:58

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Martin Sleziak

Feb 17, 2022 11:13

Hmm... I got there a rendundant space somehow: A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students and Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Martin Sleziak

Feb 14, 2022 06:34

This room (and the site) are not 10 years old. Happy anniversary!

XaXa

Jan 14, 2022 08:54

It is my humble request to all to vote reopen this question as it was not duplicate:academia.stackexchange.com/questions/180993/…

Massimo Ortolano

Feb 15, 2020 10:13

@MartinSleziak At the 10-year anniversary we should hold celebrations!

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scaaahu

May 31, 2018 02:55

I just saw something very weird. academia.stackexchange.com/users/91603/d-hutchinson?tab=profile this user is suspended network wide until May 15 '46 at 17:46. The user must have done something truly bad to be suspended for 28 years? Am I seeing it wrong? Or it's for real?

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Bohemian relativist

Nov 13, 2021 11:16

Wonderland is the land on which there is the tendency to meet wonder people to bless you while wasteland is where waste people come to plague you.

Greg Martin

Sep 22, 2016 16:30

For the record, I do think questions about the relationship between academia and axes of oppression (sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.) are extremely relevant to this stackexchange and should not be closed (that's too blunt a tool to use to address the problem of a flood of comments). Indeed, I will go so far as to say that the notion that such questions are not relevant can only be considered by those with privilege (for example, white males) who do not have to experience it on a daily basis.

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eykanal

Aug 19, 2016 02:04

room topic changed to The Ivory Tower: General discussion for academia.stackexchange.com (no tags)

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Wrzlprmft

Sep 6, 2019 19:05

@MdAyq6 If somebody feels attacked and reacts by lashing out insults at the alleged attackers, this is not really beneficial to their cause and credibility either.

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Massimo Ortolano

Jul 9, 2019 14:41

Admittedly, certain questions that appear on this site make me question the level of maturity of certain graduate students.

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Wrzlprmft

Jul 29, 2021 18:23

@MassimoOrtolano They do, but this is a very recent feature.

Massimo Ortolano

Jul 29, 2021 15:05

@Buffy Nope. See this request: meta.stackexchange.com/q/367235/300001 It is tagged as "status-review" so probably the staff is considering it. For other types of flags I don't know whether it would be useful.

Buffy

Jul 29, 2021 13:56

Does the OP of a question get notified for close votes and flags?

ff524

Feb 4, 2016 16:58

@MassimoOrtolano ugh, don't get me started on unfortunate "traditions." In my field, when I request confidence intervals (or some measure, any measure, of variation) as a reviewer, authors act like I've asked for something completely bizarre and unreasonable.

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Captain Bohemian

Jun 1, 2019 06:36

Manhattanhenge

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Buffy

Jul 5, 2021 12:52

To any (all) mods. I've just done a rather bold update to editors, editing and copy-editing. I suggest a review. It leaves editing with no questions. I suggest that editing and copy-editing are synonyms. I've differentiated the function of journal editors from that of text editing.

Massimo Ortolano

Nov 28, 2015 22:20

My advice is: never ever take discussions personally and, most of all, participation to online activities should never become a second work. It's a hobby that should be taken light-heartedly.

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