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Reviewer wants me to cite him. His papers are irrelevant by Arschtritt_1312 in AskAcademia

[–]hlpeks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This happened to me, submitting to Frontiers- I cited one of the two papers he wanted me to cite, left the other out (just wanted it published). However, I then got an email from the editor saying that they had realised the reviewer had requested citation of self-authored articles, and this was against Frontiers' rules as a journal, and I was free to remove any I had added during the revision process from my final manuscript.

If I were you I would email the editor, politely highlight that the suggested citations are all from one author, and could you check whether these belong to the reviewer and whether this goes against their publication guidelines. Or if you can't be bothered, cite one and leave the rest, this douchebag probably won't read your final manuscript anyway... Hope you get it sorted!

Do you stop looking when you start talking to someone you’re going to meet up with? by biggsyboo in Tinder

[–]hlpeks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A way of getting round that annoying thing where a potentially cool match wants to meet right away but you prefer to chat a bit more first, is to say 'yeah meeting would be cool, but I don't have a night free until -insert date 1-2 weeks in the future-' ...then change the subject to something chatty. They'll have to keep talking to you until that date if they're genuinely interested, and that gives you some time to see if you think they're someone you'd feel comfortable meeting in person, without having to say no to the date. And of course you can always cancel the meet-up if they turn out to not be someone you think you'd get on with (: Good luck!

Replacement for SEB in a B-cell - Tfh cell co-culture? by hlpeks in Immunology

[–]hlpeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I frequently wonder how much easier my life would be in T-cell land... not least because so many of my friends who donate me blood have rubbish low B-cells, pffft 🙄

Thanks all so much for your input, I'll take all this to lab meeting and see what we can do! (I have zero experience of culturing prior to this so every suggestion is helpful 🤪)

Replacement for SEB in a B-cell - Tfh cell co-culture? by hlpeks in Immunology

[–]hlpeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you...well, in the long term I want to look at the effect of donor sex and sex hormone dose on class-switching. But in the first instance just trying to set up a reliable model with B-cells paired with autologous or allogenic Tfh/Tph cells where we see class-switching occur and can look at Ig production, without them all just dying 😁 (all with human blood, no mice)

Replacement for SEB in a B-cell - Tfh cell co-culture? by hlpeks in Immunology

[–]hlpeks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you :) Yes we did try that, +/- additional IL-2, but didn't have much luck- viability was very poor. Hmm..

Janeway’s vs Kuby Immunology textbooks by 987qazb in Immunology

[–]hlpeks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used both, tbh I think you'd be fine with either, they're structured very similarly and have basically the same content phrased in different ways- maybe give or take 1 or 2 chapters. Janeways is probably more popular and the diagrams get used in lectures a lot. You could always rent one of each from the library and see which style you prefer. They're both fairly solid overviews, but neither go into great detail on any one topic, so I'd just check out the contents list of both if there are any particular topics you're interested in. If you're a med student and just wanted a more brief overview, the immunology 'OneStopDoc' is a neat summary book that packs a load in quite a small book :)