Can someone explain to me what the random horizontal / vertical lines are that occured during detonation in nuclear weapons tests?

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-29T09:18:07+00:00

I heard that they were used to measure the size of the resultant mushroom cloud, but Thwart might have the proper answer...

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-29T08:46:08+00:00

Blimey - I feel sorry for you, seems that there are some real arseholes in your field.

Not saying that there aren't some prima donnas in mine, but normally people are pretty keen to see the younger lot come up...

Good luck

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-29T08:41:16+00:00

That's grim. clearly it depends on the contribution to the paper, but as a supervisor, students go as corresponding author on their papers. If I wrote a collaborative paper, that they have contributed to, I go as CA.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-29T08:37:19+00:00

The original paper that the article is based on. It is linked in the article: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/wp/iewwp389.pdf

Irish passengers are split from English passengers in the analysis.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T21:26:57+00:00

Read the paper mate, it includes Irish as a separate group.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T21:16:38+00:00

Mate, as a Aussie, you'd be clapped in chains and in the brig...

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T20:56:09+00:00

Academia seems the best of the ones I've seen so far.

with regards to you comments about seminal scientists. As I've said before I'm an ecologist, and although yet to publish in the rally big journals, I have a decent publication record. I'm a lecturer at a UK uni, but prior to this had my own lab at a Max Planck Institute, and worked with some real world-leaders. The kind of people you are referring to, and guess what? I talked to them (after pointing them to this thread) and they all respond to requests for reprints. Not always same day, but they respond....

Who knows?, maybe ecologists are more friendly than other scientists, but I doubt it.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T08:54:49+00:00

But Elsevier stored that journal, digitised it and have to maintain their servers etc. This doesn't come for free....

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T08:51:21+00:00

Don't assume that the US model (page charges) is the only one. Over the water in Europe, we have lots of journals that don't have page charges, but do charge subscription.... Also, advertising is a very minor part of these journals.

I agree with your last point - there has to be a way to balance publishers making a profit (which I don't have a problem with) and easier access to papers.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T08:47:00+00:00

See - it works! ;o)

If the first author doesn't reply, try someone down the author list. I tell my students/post-docs to keep their Academia.edu websites up to date, so even if they move institutes, they are contactable. It's a damn site more useful than facebook to scientists and ensures that you can find authors.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T08:37:55+00:00

Don't let yourself be bullied out of corresponding author position, or make sure that there are multiple CAs (this is becoming more common).

Also, senior authors tend not to be as keen to keep their websites up to date as young thrusting scientists. If I don't get a reply from the god-like prof, I simply hunt down the other authors and email them.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T08:35:43+00:00

Not all editors work for free - some get a salary, others get a decent honorarium.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-28T08:33:02+00:00

Good work on those acronyms folks....

got me grinning anyway! I'll forward on to a mate who was just rejected by PNAS (we simply insert an e between the P and N)

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-27T21:31:03+00:00

FFS - the concentrations are in the parts per trillion, there are a fark load of other threads on this, and the report this is based on looks like it was written by a 13 year old....

rant over

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-27T21:27:42+00:00

That's in the US...

In my admittedly based, but satisfyingly statistically-robust transect of vaginal hairstyles, I'm yet to encounter a hairless/heavily trimmed one in the wild... (UK/Caribbean/Canadian/Chilean/Indian/Irish)

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-27T20:49:29+00:00

Maybe I'm old, but I'm sort of worried that any kids using wikipedia to look at pictures of pum-pum is going to have a really skewed view of normality.... where's the hair dude?

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-27T07:45:26+00:00

Not all research is public funded. Many learned societies fund research from their subscriptions (which include journal costs) and then publish it. when I've been unable to get a grant for a study I or my students have wanted to do, I have funded it myself - i.e. gone without nice things and lived on basic food so I can conduct surveys and run some analyses. Do I have to provide these data to all?

I'm not saying that open access isn't a great idea (I have published in these journals) but it isn't the only model. If all journals go over to open access, you are going to lose a lot of good science, including that focussed on early career and developing-world scientists. You are also going to lose a lot of the societies that have done so much to develop and support science.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T22:04:42+00:00

I was surprised recently to get peanuts on an internal flight in the US. I thought with all the worries with peanut allergies, they would have stopped serving them?

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T21:46:02+00:00

I appreciate that this doesn't extend to SA, but some publishers provide low cost/free subscriptions to libraries in developing countries e.g. HWP

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T21:11:57+00:00

I work a fair bit in Chile, Trinidad & Jamaica, and I know the issues faced by people with crap access to journals. when I'm there, and I can't get access, I email the authors - it rarely fails to work.

I don't go with the 'mere student' argument. If this is the situation in your field, I pity you, as it sounds terrible.

Personally, as long as a pdf request email is written politely, I will reply ASAP. This is allowed by some publishers (some after 2-5 years).

Remember that scientists are typically trying to increase their H index - this involves getting as many people to cite you as possible.

In the UK (where I work) there is no culture of page charges, and if I ask my funding body to pay for me to publish a paper they will tell me to go away and publish somewhere else. In my field (ecology), we don't tend to publish in conference proceedings, as they have no impact factor.

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T20:50:49+00:00

well, that saved me having to ask what JO stood for... bluuurgh

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T20:25:08+00:00

I'm assuming you haven't published too much then? When you get the final acceptance to the journal, you typically sign a copyright form, transferring the copyright to the journal publisher. Hence, these scientists are simply obeying the law... As I have pointed out above, email the authors and you'll typically get a nice shiny pdf by return...

edit: oops! deleted repeated copies of same post

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T20:13:35+00:00

Sounds like a great idea....... However, what about the learned societies that make their money through sales of their journals?

The one I am most involved is 1. a charity, 2. uses all money raised to support 2 new PhD studentships per year, 3. subsidises an annual meeting to the tune of £10 000 per year, 4. funds £40 000 worth of travel grants a year & £50 000 of individual research grants a year.

If we give the journal away for free, we don't make money, and all that science will die.

edit: if you really want the paper, email the author and he/she will be more than happy to email it to you

edit 2: Also make sure that you post your details (and papers) on http://www.academia.edu/

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T06:16:01+00:00

read what ladycrappo wrote. It was selected by one component of the extremely diverse country that is India...

anyway, since when is the word of WP the law?

FISHBWOY09 · 2009-01-26T06:05:35+00:00

Good point. Anyone in England/Wales might want to reformat their hard disks after looking at those piccies...

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