One of my favorites:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.09.020

It’s important that you also read the section titles.

Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of “as we previously reported,” but maybe that’s just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he’s like, “idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact.”

I was kind of thinking of that with the institutional journal bit. It doesn’t need to be a traditional journal, the only things important to me are:

1. peer review (skip #2)

2. open access

3. professional editors to help improve phrasing, spelling, flow, etc.

4. DOI link or similar unique identifier

I’m totally down to ditch the traditional journal format otherwise. It was just a quick comment not meant to go in-depth, but point out that we already have public institutions that can host publications.

I swear it’s an official rule that reviewer 2 is required to be a huge pain in the ass.

Institutions could easily form their own journals. National organizations that provide grants could also require you to publish in their journal. Universities can run their own journals. These sorts of entities already exist and provide article access for free, publishing in them would just need to be normalized.

These are just a few options without researchers organizing anything for themselves.

But if you talk to them informally, they will excitedly show you pictures of cool rocks, which is neat.

Yes, we just need to install water hardener systems rather than softeners to boil out the plastics!

I’m curious how effective typical household water filtration systems are in comparison. I’d expect RO systems would be effective at least.

I will try this, thank you for the advice. Normally I end up contacting the authors when I don’t have access. Some are great and respond within the hour, some never respond.

Also, thanks for carrying this community. I enjoy your posts.

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Honestly, Elsevier is the worst. They tease you with those section snippets, so I scroll from the abstract and can start reading the introduction…scroll a bit more and it’s unceremoniously cut off mid-sentence. Then I rage because the article is newer than 2022 (no Sci-Hub) and my institution gets cheaper every year.

I can’t view papers I’ve published in some journals anymore. When I see this, I think: “Why don’t we subscribe to papers we are actively publishing in?? Why aren’t all of the papers I want to read published in open access journals?? Why did I contribute to a journal that wasn’t open access??”

How dare you not share the reference in a link too!

The CaCO3 concentration where boiling was most effective (>80% of the measured polymers removed) was >120 mg/L. This is hard water, so if your local area doesn’t have particularly hard water, this method won’t be effective.

A very general guide for the US on hard water levels by state.

Great, now we need to run the experiment with the bowling ball and feather on opposite sides of the planet!

It’s not necessarily that you hear more than someone else, but you have the experience to have trained your hearing to discern those sounds.

It’s something I also experience from my time working around machines. Works on all sorts of things.

Fuck, that goes hard.

Cool share, I’d never heard of this.

Not using a computer also bypasses it.

THAT’S why it’s been so rainy lately.

Something along those lines. He had a more questionable association than just receiving research funding, I think it was partying on JE’s island and there were a bunch of young girls at the party?

This is how you know they’re irrelevant. Take the time to learn or just retire.

Aka, old fucks who don’t even know how to save a PDF. Also the only reason I can’t work with modern tools, including sending a OneDrive link for a manuscript in Word. We get to pass around a million copies of the same Word file like animals.