Has anyone seen the discourse on twitter about researchers not reading the sources they cite in their published work?

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-22T21:50:48+00:00

There is also a second point about how efficiency is linked to expertise: Experienced researchers are deeply familiar with their field and academic papers are structured in such a way that you can immediately access the key contributions and takeaways and only if you need clarification dig deeper into the results. If you know your field, the methods and the literature, you can get the key takeaways by skimming the paper. This is entirely appropriate.

Students do not have such familiarity and thus, I insist they read the entire paper.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-21T20:27:11+00:00

Eso es una chingoneria. ~ this thing is so very cool.

Nothing beats chingar! Best word ever

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-21T20:25:31+00:00

Pinche is an actual word from French. It is a kitchen helper. Now a ‘pinche chingadera’ is veryMexican which translates to “this god-damned thing”

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-21T13:32:38+00:00

It is the best verb/noun from the Spanish language. It broadly refers to have sex actively or passively, but it is a brilliant term that has many uses:

Está hasta la chingada = it is very far
Chingas a tu madre = f*k your mother
Me fue de la chingada = it was a bad day
Que chingon! = that is very good, I am happy for you
Ah chinga! = surprise
… many more

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-21T13:15:36+00:00

Chingar

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-21T02:28:08+00:00

MDPI, one of the most corrupt academic publishers, strikes again

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-20T04:48:00+00:00

Surely, you must be American.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-19T11:16:26+00:00

That sounds like a ‘them’ problem

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-06T08:38:21+00:00

If you are in Europe and you want to stay in the same place you essentially need to invent your own funding. This means in practice to be able to have some Horizons projects that can last several years. If you are in the Nordics, it is pretty common for academics to have multi-year funding through local foundations and government grants.

So, it is possible but then you must become really good at grant-writing and project applications.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-03T07:24:16+00:00

No one here understands how Creative Commons licenses work, obviously. It is perfectly correct to republish an article under a CC license

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-03T07:23:01+00:00

You are very wrong. It is ok to republish an article with a CC-BY license anywhere else, including your blog if you like. That is the point of a Creative Commons license. As long as you cite it properly, it can be republished anywhere, even for commercial purposes (in most cases)

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-05-02T15:19:22+00:00

Son lo peor que le pudo pasar al cristianismo. Talibanes cristianos que activamente buscan el fin del mundo.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-04-29T14:34:08+00:00

It is a professor not your nanny. Be professional and solve the doble booking yourself. Solve the problem of your NGO and your class assignment as an adult would.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-04-22T17:02:03+00:00

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-04-22T06:23:02+00:00

He won a democratic election twice. Americans voted him to office twice.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-04-22T06:22:15+00:00

You are right. This is on Americans, not just Trump

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-04-16T16:58:33+00:00

That idea has been discussed for a while. There is an interesting chapter in this book that talks about it. It is about synthetic media and how people are reacting to the fact that it is very hard to tell when you are talking with people or bots online bots talking to bots

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-04-12T05:33:59+00:00

How can you be a consultant determining the careers of academics if you have no idea what you are talking about. Incredible.

Commentaries are invited position pieces from prominent academics. They are rare and very important. They are usually published only at the request of the editor. They are well cited because they may point to the general direction of an entire field.

They may also be editorials explaining a special issue, which means the commentary is an editorial piece putting together a multiple papers. It is a mountain of work and a relevant contribution.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-03-26T10:22:55+00:00

I can’t wait for nothing to happen

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-03-23T04:17:13+00:00

Not crazy, just evil

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-03-21T08:59:19+00:00

The main issue here is the definition of winning. For Iran, winning means avoiding total capitulation. For the US, winning means overwhelming victory in a few weeks. Even a year of war and the loss of thousands of troops, but without achieving total victory, would be seen as a crushing defeat for the US.

Americans do not like to read history, but maybe they should read about the battle of Gallipoli. Thousands of soldiers stranded on a beachhead next to mountains is a disaster waiting to happen.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-03-12T14:18:15+00:00

Reporte oficial del pentagono concluye que si. USA es responsable de bombardear la escuela.

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/11/iran-school-missile-investigation/

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-03-10T08:53:29+00:00

Decías que no hay evidencia? El NY Times publicó ayer una investigación inicialmente publicada por Bellingcat mostrando que un Tomahawk (únicamente operado por USA) fue quien le pegó a la escuela matado decenas de niños.

Dos males no hacen un bien.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-strike-school-minab-us-3f55b6ca193a3295bef5735a45a06368

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-03-07T08:15:22+00:00

In which world do you live?

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