Overly.Honest.Editor

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#Openscience ❤️&👻; incrementalist; Cptn Grumblepants; thought follower; unbelievable little shit; self-serving internet bawbag; occasional Jorts; Grumpytits McGee. I will not just & I can't even. Skeets CC By.

Mastodon post that explains Mastodon: "Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."
Graph outlining for potential paths for future of peer review: managed evolution (most likely), system strain and selective collapse (underappreciated risk), professional transformation (high effort), and decentralised disruption (a wild card).
Screen grab showing publication history of a paper submitted to a journal in June 1995 and published 13 years later, in October 2008.
Visualisation of all bluesky accounts and networks with a red circle sitting well outside the whole network, with arrows pointing at it.
Front of a East London building with a sign reading "Papermill Wharf" above the entrance.
A tweet from @ProfJoSharp that reads: "I had a paper rejected once because I "didn't seem to know the work of Jo Sharp well enough" - I am Jo Sharp!!! #ShareYourRejections"
Screengrab of Transport for London announcement of partial suspension of a subway line caused be the leaf fall on tracks.
Sea on fire during Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
A photo of pelagic cormoran saying: "Hey crow, have you just added rooster to this chat?"
Photo of Adam Kucharski's new book, "Proof".
Tweet from Jiankui He, geneticist known for creating the first genetically modified babies, without ethics approvals and to outrage of the scientific community, saying: "Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress".
A pigeon busy bodying itself within a terminal of a large international airport.
A meme with Ryan Reynolds looking cool as a cucumber with a flying crashing car behind him. Ryan is labelled: "all emails starting: Dear Editor Cat, happy new year...", the car crash is labelled: "2025 editing on January 2".
Garfield, the cartoon cat.
Screengrab from Spotify 2024 Wrapped which says: "You listened for 49,736 minutes this year. That puts you in the top 5% of listeners worldwide."
Marketoonist.com cartoon. In the first panel, a person writing an email says to their colleague: "A.I. turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote." In the next panel, a different person reading an email says to their colleague: "A.I. makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read."
Screengrab from Duolingo which reads: "You made 0 mistakes. Unlike in real life."
A mastodon post from user Ciara, which reads: Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email.
A book entitled "Co-Intelligence" by Ethan Mollick. Highly recommend (and no, it's not a paid promo)
Pico Ruivo summit above the clouds.
Cover of the new comic strip book from Poorly Drawn Lines, "Hope it all works out!"
A bio for a joke account called Ozymandias Pumpernickel Flugenholtz, which reads simply "bullied by @stephenbheard.bsky.social". Disclaimer: no one was bullied.
A para bemoaning influx of poor quality shows and pondering what's the point of making good ones, if it's like adding a bucket of water to a flood (but then realising that even during flood, people need drinking water).
Beginning of the COPE flowchart for image manipulation cases showing a new step that allows editors to progress to retraction without going to the authors if manipulation is blatant and clearly affecting outcomes.
Duolingo translation from Mandarin: "I am bored to death"
Duolingo translation: "You must translate this sentence"
Duolingo translation: "The cats learn from experience that they never learn anything from experience"
Image of a cat holding a cup of coffee, with text saying "I'm not arguing. I'm explaining why I'm right."
Google card that states that the minimum sample size is 100. Explainer continues: "Most statisticians agree..."
An old tumblr post with a title "Everyone will not just" which reads: If your solution to some problem relies on "If everyone would just..." then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they're not going to start now.
Aerial photo of Ever Given, the container ship that blocked Suez Canal in March 2021.
Strip from Poorly Drawn Lines. In the first panel, mouse says "imIt takes a lot to convince me of something". In the second panel, bird says "No it doesn't". In the last panel, mouse concedes "I guess that's true".
Comic strip, image one, bird says, "Mouse, do you ever feel, like...". Image two, bird says, "...a sense of sadness?" Image three, mouse replies, "Bird, listen to me, bro." Image four, mouse continues, "I'm at, like, 25-percent sadness constantly as a baseline."
Doug Altman quote: "We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons."
A post on Mastodon that reads: Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops, but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."
Mock breaking news screen that reads: Science wants preregistration But also less of it. But also more. But also a bit different.
A tweet from user @hubertscat that reads: "Inadvertently just signed off a work email 'Should you have any questions please don't. Hesitate to ask.' I'm sticking with it."
Duolingo screenshot with the Mandarin translation of a sentence "I am bored to death".
Figure from a scientific paper on rheology of cats showing cats perfectly fitting various non-cat shaped containers.
Acknowledgments section in a scientific journal's editorial reads: "Chat GPT has contributed to the conceptualization and drafting of this editorial."
A tweet from @hubertscat that reads: Inadvertently just signed off a work email "Should you have any questions please don't. Hesitate to ask. " I'm sticking with it.
A dishevelled and grumpy looking cat. Was ginger once but went grey with despair.
A man in front of a large audience says: "None of this research would have been possible without all the bitter professional vendettas that kept me going..."
Winter installation in a nondescript central European city.
ChatGPT offers unbridled critique of its own reviewing skills.
Duolingo lesson: how to say "My dog ate my homework" in Chinese.
Excerpt reads: "The simple reason [for this discrepancy] is that the main costs aren't per-unit costs, but maintaining the technology operation to support processing articles". Although ORE will adopt open-source software and the EC will fund its initial development, the cost of maintaining this software and customising it to ORE's needs is likely to remain significant. This technology operation in turn requires supporting infrastructure, professional management and marketing activities which must be included in any comprehensive cost modelling exercise.
A really grumpy looking cat
Image of a head of black shepherd's dog stuck in a herd of sheep
Winnie the Pooh walks with Piglet. The dialog reads: "Pooh?" said Piglet. "Yes, Piglet?" said Pooh. "8 effing billions," said Piglet. "Oh, bother," said Pooh.
A comic with a title cat GPT showing a cat that asks "Hello! How can I help you today?" Then vomits nonsense.