Matt Bennett

FWIW, this is precisely the sentiment I read in Nietzsche’s eternal return of the same. More generally: “There is no progress or redemption arc. It is what it is”

The closest thing to success in philosophy peer review: "It my pleasure to tell you that we have accepted your shitty work which you must revise line-by-line before we publish it"

No philosophy journal *acceptance* would be complete without being told by the editor that the paper falls below the journal's standards and to revise the paper "from beginning to end"

Thanks Tom. Hope you’re surviving everything in Edinburgh

Would you mind explaining your reasoning a little Tom? I’m struggling to trust any candidate enough to bother voting, and everything I read from/about the candidates isn’t really helping that

Journal rejection after 11 months. Philosophy is often a callous and cruel profession, and I'm struggling to see how I continue in it. I've been given chances, and I'm getting closer to accepting I've failed to make it work, but today it's hard not to feel that I've been screwed

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Jfc that's awful, I'm so sorry

Once again for those at the back: doing well in the REF & getting great student satisfaction scores won't save you from politically motivated cuts. It doesn't matter if your research is good, your unit is profitable, or your students are happy if a VC needs to prove their radical vision/pet scheme.

This is—or rather should be—an absolute scandal. The UK’s University of Kent is closing its highly ranked Department of #Philosophy. This undermines the very idea of a university. #HigherEducation #PhilSky #Academia

Least of all me #blessed

Congratulations to my paper and Editorial Manager for 10 months together! Almost made it to that big first-year anniversary🤪

It's not a good day for job worries. Woke up with catastrophising thoughts about what happens at the end of my current job (Sept), and I just learned that even our business school is being forced to pull fixed-term teaching. The picture at (most) UK universities is very bleak indeed

Ah yes. But actions are solidaristic, right? Not people, or collectives i.e. things that have traits

If solidarity is a trait, what is the associated adjective? Like if courage is a trait, we say that a person is courageous. (Answers needn't be in English, of course)

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Please repost!

I was already thinking journal of the APA next, good shout

Rejection number 6 on the winner-takes-all paper. Kudos to CRISPP for a 3 month turnaround, albeit with just one report. On the hunt for rejection number 7, open to recommendations

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Are there any philosophy journals that don’t care if your submission is simultaneously under consideration elsewhere? Asking purely out of curiosity of course

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Presented this last week (virtually) to a great bunch at a workshop on empirical+normative pol-theory in Prato. The talk covered, among other things, dictators, bankruptcy, capuchin monkeys, and the American Red Cross, and all under 20 mins!

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Yeah I agree. I think posting on social media is primarily my way of channeling my urge to “do something” away from the submission, the journal, and the editor

Ugh that's awful. This journal has a policy of seeking 2nd reviewer only if 1st doesn't recommend reject, which on the one hand is good news for me, but on the other it more or less double the wait (and of course there is still the possibility of being rejected with a negative 2nd review)

I didn't think so, but I'm starting think it might be based on this

Editorial manager screenshot reading "date submitted: 6 May 2023", "status date: 3 Jan 2024", "current status: reviewers assigned".

*sigh* closing in on 9 months. I'm 99% sure "reviewers assigned" means "waiting for response to invitation to review". They tell me they have a 1st report and they are looking for a 2nd. My last contact with them was 3 Jan.

What do I do? Anything? Nothing?

This is a remarkably Nietzschean account of late 19th century scientific method

"Faculty on the move" updates but for all the temp teachers losing their jobs

Some small steps towards fixing the publishing crisis in philosophy:

i. Papers should bounce around quickly between journals, getting rejected without much feedback, then resubmitted somewhere else to be rejected without much feedback again by the same referee.

ii. CVs should be in 12pt font.