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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
People, how about some ...
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Wednesday Micro Hits (Vol. 4)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
ASA-CSSA-SSSA Early Career Program
Monday, October 25, 2010
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Wednesday Micro Hits (Vol. 3)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Wednesday Micro Hits (Vol 2)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Here's where I start begging ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
No Fleas Please
Monday, October 11, 2010
My next Research Blogging article has been chosen ...
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday Morning Serenade
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Donor's Choose
Friday, October 8, 2010
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Friday, October 8, 2010
RB: Waste Not, Want Not.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Research Blogging
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Wednesday Micro Hits
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
What if I were not a microbiologist ...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
TJ's Tips on Manuscript Review
Monday, October 4, 2010
Chinese plagiarism and the death of English-language journals
Friday, October 1, 2010
Allow Me a Formal Introduction
Friday, October 1, 2010
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... I'm still around, but barely. Trying to wrap up some "minor revisions" for a manuscript which were not so minor when considering the fact that the Associate Editor wanted me to split my "Results and Discussion" into two sections, and Reviewer #3 waxed philosophical about some of my comparisons. So it's mostly busy work, though I really want to beg off having to rewrite and restructure half of my paper. Also annoying in the sense that looking at the AE's publications in same said journal ... and he's used a combined R&D for every manuscript he's submitted there. Gah.
At any rate, I will not be daunted by the task ahead of me ...
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I never get when some journals have combined and separated R&D in the SAME freaking issue. Either do it one damn way or the other.
Separate R&D sections are non-sensical. I've only written one manuscript like that, and that one could easily have turned out to be a Note.
As when Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Medawar insisted* that writing a discussion section separate from the results was akin to <i>pretending</i> that you were unaware of the impact your results have in the field as you're collecting the data.
*Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud? http://contanatura-hemeroteca.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/medawar_paper_fraud.pdf
Also check his book "Advice to a Young Scientist".
Is it really up to the journal? The last MS I wrote (and the two that I am now) will have a seperate R and D section-but I use the D as more of a "summary". I use the results to compare the "things" (i.e. granny smith apples to golden delicious) and then use the discussion to put everything in a bigger context. Maybe it's bad form. Sorry if I have driven anyone else nuts with this....
Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Medawar insisted* that writing a discussion section separate from the results was akin to pretending that you were unaware of the impact your results have in the field as you're collecting the data.
That's awesome.
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