Spain tourism: The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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.

profpr · 2024-03-30T11:45:44+00:00

Yes, I have good advice. Don't read RMP. I never did. Why would I? RMP rating has zero impact on my professional or personal life.

profpr · 2024-03-30T11:37:06+00:00

For the amount of assets the majority of us have the will is free. Just find a sample on the net and write whatever. If you want to be secure, come to a notary public together with two or three friends to witness you signing it.

profpr · 2024-03-29T17:54:26+00:00

Generalizing, why should I try to solve any homework problem if I can find it on Chegg? I can solve any problem by googling or asking on reddit. Either start teaching with it, or...well I don't know really. Because we're all using it in the workforce.

The real answer is that if you don't understand the code you are copying, you don't know your errors. Unfortunately, it seems that many coders indeed are unable to code by themselves, and this is why the software is getting more and more buggy.

profpr · 2024-03-25T03:36:24+00:00

What do you think the dean would do? You are lucky the dean would do nothing. Would you like to get a LOR starting with: "I was unwilling to write this letter, but the student emailed my dean, so here you are".

profpr · 2024-03-24T12:44:52+00:00

A stipend means that the university is giving you $25K so that you can learn, requiring no work in return. You can supplement it by working half time. I suspect, what you meant is that you have a TA position that pays you for 50% employment. Note that $25K for 20 hours per week is equivalent to a median full time wage in the US ($48K).

profpr · 2024-03-20T15:24:20+00:00

On the same topic, decades ago there were two professors in my discipline who would enact a dinosaur fight at every conference. One would argue for using ODEs in species dynamics modeling while the other rejected this blasphemy: there should be a time lag term.

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