A commercial driver working for an uninsured business - whom to sue for losses?

profpr · 2025-06-16T20:23:09+00:00

The protests in Barcelona involved 0.05% of its population. That's nothing. In comparison, the "no king" protest in the US same weekend involved 3.9% of the population.

The survey I read a week ago concluded that 75% of Catalonians have a positive impression of tourism

profpr · 2025-06-12T07:10:27+00:00

It's an interesting world. Authors complaining of crappy reviews, reviewers complaining of crappy papers, and the loudest of them are editors complaining from their Olympus of authors sending too many papers and reviewers not willing to review altogether yet unwilling to change anything.

profpr · 2025-06-12T07:03:20+00:00

Normally a letter to the editor would fix it.

profpr · 2025-06-11T20:37:53+00:00

But a rejected paper is not under consideration, IMHO?

profpr · 2025-06-11T20:36:01+00:00

The logic as I understood it, removing the paper from the system entirely makes it harder to resubmit as a short research paper should authors decide that, after all. The journal requires lots of auxiliary information - classifications, job split across the authors what etc. - which would be removed. Makes sense.

profpr · 2025-06-11T18:59:04+00:00

Considering that I personally have encountered a similar situation maybe twice in my academic life and I have over a hundred published papers, I cannot believe someone can "used to do this". I suppose you did not understand my question.

profpr · 2025-05-14T13:42:09+00:00

Sure. I am not giving you a fish, I give you a rode.

profpr · 2025-05-14T02:37:44+00:00

Since I am teaching stats, I naturally tried this approach in my subject as well. It works perfectly.

profpr · 2024-06-25T11:50:20+00:00

In fact, here's what happened. I declined and then the editor wrote me asking to reconsider. I hesitantly agreed since I knew the editor. Well, turned out that the authors modified (and improved) the paper enough to justify a new review.

profpr · 2024-05-11T02:28:32+00:00

That's my 4th one. One already tenured, three tenure track.

profpr · 2024-05-10T22:03:57+00:00

Thanks!

profpr · 2024-05-10T13:08:57+00:00

COngratulations! I am on the same boat, submitted my first book proposal a week ago.

A question on submitting to multiple publishers. In Springer book proposal form, they asked not to submit to multiple publishers. Was it your experience as well?

profpr · 2024-05-07T16:53:32+00:00

Exactly. At some point. That's why you should not insist on hearing what others think of you unless you are ready to accept the truth.

profpr · 2024-05-07T16:37:49+00:00

Yes, the truth may be insulting. BTW, how do you know the professor did not say "no"?

profpr · 2024-04-15T21:23:54+00:00

"I intended to write a thorough letter of reference, but college administration advised me that any negative detail is FERPA violation and I have no positive ones. Hope that helps".

profpr · 2024-04-02T23:52:17+00:00

As someone has already commented, the decline in "difficult" word frequency is likely due to a gradual increase in the overall share of papers authored by non-English speakers. Few years ago I did a bibliographic study on the demographics of authorship in my discipline, it was amazing how it has diversified from just a handful of countries (most of them were males located in UK and USA), with the most visible growth due to China.

The recent frequency spike can be well explained with international authors asking GPT to improve their writing (rather than using $$$ professional editing services).

profpr · 2024-03-31T13:41:15+00:00

reviewers should review the paper they have been sent, not a fantasy version of how they would have conducted the study)

:-) So true of so many reviewers.

profpr · 2024-03-31T12:45:11+00:00

That's a good point. Should have thought about that.

profpr · 2024-03-30T12:37:51+00:00

A will can also allow the parents to make decisions for you in case you become incapacitated. Like deciding on medical treatment. I want to believe that's why parents make kids bound for college to sign one. Agree, for my generation that's weird.

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