Sage flower, fanged.
10.05.2025 19:50
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Sage flower, fanged.
The whole effect was mesmerizing.
Woman across from me on the Amtrak...mini bottle of white wine
..eating potato chips with a fork. I am fascinated...and vaguely jealous of her skill.
The references say that the hole is too large for sparrows, but year after year, we watch them fledge 2 or 3 nestlings. When they are small, you can hear them, too young to be afraid.
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Cracked, painted wood, white and black
Been years now, but time to start a new project.
This fencepost halted me this morning. The sharp lines, the graceful brokenness, the way the secret tree asserts itself through the paint.
But the theme hasn't become apparent yet.
Stay tuned? #Not_FloralDistancing
Garfield: citation indicates a meaningful relationship between published works. Medium being web rather than print notwithstanding. Link this fills the purpose of citation.
GS uses citation but does not render it useable.
Citation indexing, pal...links are semantic, not just structural.
Absolutely!
We have to define what we value in education, reading, and writing and ensure those are central to the process itself, and adequately resource that. This will differ by educational level, topic and goal.
Yeah ... I will miss what used to be there.
Super useful! Glad to see so many old friends and admired colleagues!
When people ask me what I do for a living, I think I have to say "Email". I read email; I figure out how to address/fix/discuss the subject of that email; I write an email.
That's it. That's my life now.
Cumulative damage of small irritations: I just figured out how to turn off an annoying default in Windows11. I literally sighed with relief when it vanished. I had not realized how much energy it took to ignore it.
Makes me wonder how things like this I think I am tolerating, to my detriment.
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It is also interesting that, despite the different contributing databases (more and different sources in Scopus), they track so *well*. My guess from past work: the largest, reputable sources are in both - and they will heavily influence the averages. (That y-axis is average, right?)
Increase in JIF 2008 might have been related to significant coverage expansion in the database.
This is why we can't have nice citation things:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Citation metrics were - for decades - a passive observation of scholarly action. But Goodhart's law hit them hard - and treating the disease in research evaluation by amputation? That is so sad.
Some version of that is helpful most days!
But if I were saying it to you, I'd add "You have GOT this!" as encouragement you know...
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"The combined impression is that MDPI publishes papers ...where everything looks superficially like genuine science but with jarring features that tell you something is amiss."
Imagine loosing that among readers with less science literacy? LOOKS just like genuine science...but quacks like a 🦆
You are a bsky goddess for combining Keanu Reeves and Jane Austen! 😍
Transparency of reviewers' names led to - eventual - identification by someone whose purpose for examining the articles was detection of improper practices.
It is also true that this was not detected by anyone in the publishing chain (Prob 1), nor by anyone (if anyone) who read the articles (Prob 2)
I was explaining my definition of process optimization to someone today - came up with this:
Better - but not perfect
Faster - but not reckless
Stronger - but not rigid
Sound about right to you all?
Is this a good moment to use the word "vertiginous"? I love that word...
Look what was happening under the snow.
Too much fun!
Good to see you here, Kaveh! Well, actually, it'd be good to see you ANYWHERE.
SSP in Boston? I'm not sure yet - but you would surely be on the list of people I'd make a special point to cross paths with!
Very familiar graph....very familiar story.
Sigh...
I'm grieving the loss of G-Podcasts. Kind of invested in it, curation and all.
Like my ex-Twitter - had a good network there, years of development in personal and professional spaces, a "voice" within that valued audience.
Trying to find my way in the Sky.
Whoa! Thanks, @alicemeadows.bsky.social
Excellent, amazing, must-read post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today.
The tantalizing possibility of all knowledge being findable - and how that obscures the fact that not all that is known is also true.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/04/g...
My personal pref is for MSAccess, but much of my work now is about communicating data with/to others, and Access doesn't work in a "sharepoint" environment. I've tried some dashboards in Excel; as I re-design those this year, I might move data-management to Access, export csv to Excel for share.
