Sally Larsen

I can't stop watching this 🤣🫠

I've thought about this too. Most recently when revising an app for a resubmission in an extremely competitive grant scheme. I wondered if I should actually be bothering at all because mine was all my own writing and there's nothing in the rules to stop ppl using AI to write their grants

George Davey Smith wrote a paper years ago that was so clear about the challenges of applying epidemiology and genetics research findings to individuals. I often think about that paper - it helped me understand some important things as a PhD student

Reader, it did not get rid of them....

🙃🙃

An MDPI journal today sent me an "invitation" to act as a guest editor for a special issue. I am already annoyed about the particular journal because of the way it's clearly gamed the metrics.

I replied & told them I would not work for publishing companies for free. This usually gets rid of them 🙃

I'm suddenly noticing lots of the people from former psychology twitter on LinkedIn. One has to wade through *a lot* of guff over there though...

I was a bit late to the party with this one but my favourite (that I can remember) was Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.

I've started a Goodreads profile so I can try and remember what I've read, and store up ideas for what to read next!

Christmas doggo 🎄🐕

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026…

[Hm, maybe I shouldn't have played this game 🤔]

I have this book too! I've never made the coconut cake. Maybe I should... 😋

That feeling when you log into the journal submission system to check on the status of a revised paper and it says:

"Awaiting editorial decision"

And you don't know if the editor has already gone on Christmas break

So you could be waiting

For a month

🙈

It would be so cool 😎

Ok idea:

Goodreads but for academic papers. Then you can have 10,000 papers on your 'currently reading' list, and you can add all your friend's papers to your 'want to read' list.

And a new category: 'read the abstract' list 🙃

Surely someone already invented this?

You can't fault this logic!

My eldest figured out about Santa aged about 4. He somehow kept it quiet at preschool (I don't remember how we managed it) but always looked so smug and superior when the other kids mentioned it 😅

Today I did not win a prestigious national grant (success rate was 13% so who am I kidding? I was never getting one of those lol)

However, I did win a Dan Murphys voucher at the staff morning tea.

I feel like this is a sign 🤔

Anyway, there's most definitely an unacknowledged bias. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for researchers in non-western, non-english dominant countries.

I find remarkable the pushback I get from Ed psych journals with Australian samples. Even with large population representative samples, some papers are rejected outright because it's not a contribution. Sometimes reminded to emphasise that Australia isn't representative of 'everywhere' (no kidding)

"If we’re not out here digging, what are people going to read about? Do they think the stuff in PNAS or Psychological Science just appears out of thin air?"
Hahahaha 😂

The responses here are 😘

FWIW I just don't get the argument that cluster analysis is 'person centred' as opposed to 'variable centred'...

And then you hear back on all the submissions in the space of one week. And they're all major revisions. And they're all due in 3 weeks. And you're in the middle of marking 157 papers with a hard deadline 🫠

Well yes, I am in Australia 😊

Spring in my garden 🪻

Meanwhile in Australia I have no idea, because I always assumed NPR must have been more conservative given that Quantitude is definitely not NPR 🙃

A summary of our latest research out in The Conversation this week 🥳

Ok this is not the best advice, but if you end up writing a paper with someone you don't like, it makes the revisions easier because in your head you can blame everything on the other author(s) haha

I have just added a note to this effect in my promotion application. There are a lot of 'AI champions' at my institution so I'm not sure how it will fall. Nonetheless I want a record for myself.

Meanwhile in Australia:
its snowing 🥶

Thank you! 😍

Although I think the greeting card writers were running short of ideas 😅

Apropos of nothing my daughter got me this birthday card...
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