Replying to @UnionDrip
Is company thriving?
Y: Increase executive salary.
N: Business environment is tough. More than ever we retain the best CEO. Increase executive salary.
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
@SmutClyde
So ladies, fish, and gentlemen.
Here's my angled dream.
See me in the blue sky bag.
And meet me by the sea!
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Joined April 2017
- Replying to @designmom"We decided that the disappearance of five people should dominate news reports (because they were wealthy) and the readers disagreed with our priorities. HOW DARE THEY."
- What (and I mean this most sincerely) the fuck? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
- To give a sense of the scale of citation market - how many people are paying brokers to get their shabby papers cited (& to elevate their academic metrices) - here's a review paper where the last *4½ pages* are a stream of absurd, irrelevant references. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Replying to @thevegdocKirsch: "Here's my unqualified opinion. Prove me wrong if you can! Otherwise my opinion is proven!" Also Kirsch: Blocks everyone who offers to prove him wrong.
- Replying to @amandapalmer and @neilhimselfBow-ties: Also invented by Crowley.
- Replying to @UtterlyInterest and @DannyDutchI suspect that van Maerlant had seen a snail. There is a long tradition of snail hybrids in illuminated manuscript marginalia. One of these is not from a medieval manuscript.
- Replying to @JoshuaGrubbsPhD and @PubPeer"We are falling between two stools," my co-author lamented in an e-mail. "Even worse," I wrote back, confident in the knowledge that she cannot thump me all the way from Liverpool. "We are stalling between two fools."
- Things go horribly wrong when authors have contracted with Elsevier to deliver a book on tidal energy and don't have time to notice that the sources of their plagiarism are writing non-literally. pubpeer.com/publications/E… worldenergy.org/assets/downloa…
