Science shouldn’t be about first – real science is a slow process that we are all working towards There’s too much emphasis on being first in science. In order to…
Why I won’t publish in bioRxiv – my problems with preprints
It would seem that more and more people are putting their papers up in bioRxiv. My lab is, in all honesty, doing a lot of these papers in journal club. …
Papers should move up, not down
One of the things I hate about the business of science more than anything else is the paper fight. I don’t have any problems with tough peer review. (I have…
Who pays for the paper?
As a graduate student, I was apparently one of the largest users of interlibrary loan at the Carnegie Mellon computer science library. (For those too young to know about ILL,…
Peer review is not commentary
I just got asked once again to review for a journal that plans to publish the peer review along with this paper. (I won't name the journal in the hope…
Ol’ doc who now?
"If anything can go wrong it will." - Murphy's Law "Don't tempt Ol' Doc Murphy, he'll come kick our a**." - Redish Lab Aphorism I think of ol' doc Murphy…