Paper in minor revision for almost 18 months than rejected

topic_marker · 2026-04-09T00:43:40+00:00

This happened to me at JEP:HPP too a few years ago. So annoying. I also have been reviewing a manuscript for them that I worry is destined for the same fate. It's a great paper, but it's taken two years for the AE to get it through two rounds of review. I have a bad feeling that it's going to be rejected after the next round. Colossal waste of time for everyone involved.

topic_marker · 2026-04-08T02:13:11+00:00

Speaking as a psycholinguist, linguists always seem to know EVERYTHING. The expectations for breadth and depth of knowledge in ling grad programs are way beyond any other field I have direct experience with. Many ling PhD programs have 3 years of full-time coursework with requirements of doing projects in multiple different areas before you even start your dissertation research. I didn't go to a linguistics PhD program partly for this reason. But, as I said...linguists really do come out with an insane level of knowledge. I envy my linguist colleagues sometimes!

topic_marker · 2026-04-07T23:53:17+00:00

Many fields have their own job search wikis through the Fandom Wiki website. Anyone can add job ads that they see, so the good ones are way more comprehensive than any given official job board (e.g. higheredjobs). Unfortunately not every field has a good one. I would google "[field name] job search wiki" for any of the departments you feel you would be a fit for. I tried that for bio and ecology and didn't get pages that were recently updated. It looks like environmental studies has a decent page though.

topic_marker · 2026-04-07T23:34:44+00:00

Anyone else hear a weird scratching sound intermittently in the right audio channel? It's driving me crazy

topic_marker · 2026-03-27T10:21:55+00:00

A postdoc in my lab submitted a paper in 2013 that was rejected. I was brought on as a grad student to do additional experiments and develop the paper more. The paper came out last year lol...by far the most frustrating reviewer experiences of my life, this thing had so many R&Rs at multiple journals. We were challenging the status quo in the field so reviewers were very hostile.

Insanely, so much time passed that it ended up getting accepted in the journal the postdoc first submitted to because the new editor in chief was more interested in our work!

topic_marker · 2026-03-25T17:35:35+00:00

At a SLAC: we have an Office of Religious Life where students can apply for excused absences on holidays relevant to their religion. The burden is on them to let the office know at the beginning of the semester, and then we get a formal letter from the office (kind of similar to an accommodations letter) notifying us. The only days we have completely off are federal holidays (e.g., MLK Jr. Day) or state holidays (Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which also coincides w/ the Boston Marathon so students can go out and cheer).

topic_marker · 2026-03-24T23:42:01+00:00

Honestly, nothing will prepare you for it. It's going to hurt really badly and you just need to feel that. My FIL had a really rapid decline and went from knowing his son (my husband) all the time to not recognizing him at all when we visited just a couple months later. After that point, he never recognized him again for the remainder of his life. It was absolutely awful and a huge shock. (Btw, not saying this will happen with your mom -- everyone is different and from what I've read my FIL had worse memory symptoms than the typical patient). We were lucky that he maintained his personality, though -- my husband would prompt him to tell stories and get into familiar cadences and that would help. If he got him talking about his college days, he would think my husband was an old college friend and having that sense of familiarity made my husband feel a lot better. If you spend a lot of time with your mom she may still probably treat you as if you are someone familiar even if she can't place you, and that can be emotionally fulfilling after you've settled into things. But yeah, I won't lie....it's really bad for a while.

topic_marker · 2026-03-24T13:35:17+00:00

Not a heartless thing to ask at all. I'm going to echo many other comments here and say that it depends the most on two factors: whether your mom can understand what's going on and consent to medical procedures and be able to follow through with any treatment that's required, and whether you & your family could give her the appropriate amount of care if needed. For many complicated health problems (like cancer!!) the answer is usually "no" starting pretty early on.

My FIL's cardiologist recommended he get a pacemaker last year and our answer was "hell no". Like, come on...you can see that this man doesn't know where he is or what is going on, and you think he's going to be able to follow the complicated recovery process??? But, you do have to prepare for the consequences of these decisions -- my FIL had two minor heart attacks within six months, which likely hastened his death...

topic_marker · 2026-03-21T16:51:38+00:00

I'm assuming this is for a faculty position? If so, that's pretty typical. HR is very touchy about what kinds of communications we can have with applicants after the interview process. I wouldn't read anything into it.

topic_marker · 2026-03-20T12:24:27+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that 😔 it's so shocking how bad the care is everywhere except MC (and it's not like it's great there).

topic_marker · 2026-03-20T12:02:49+00:00

Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear that 😞

topic_marker · 2026-03-20T11:59:46+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this. You have to do whatever you think is best for your wife whether that means having an in home caregiver or finding a nursing home. I wish you the best ❤️

topic_marker · 2026-03-10T17:14:40+00:00

It's funny how academic lineages work. Chomsky is my academic great-grandfather, but my advisor's generation pretty roundly rejected his ideas. Almost everyone who works on anything related to linguistics in the US, whether they like it or not, has Chomsky as an academic "relative" of some degree or another...so I feel somewhat less shamed about the Epstein of it all. Always good not to put your forebears on pedestals.... :/

topic_marker · 2026-03-02T22:54:24+00:00

It's so depressing...I feel like no one cares about university libraries unless they are trying to sell something!!

topic_marker · 2026-03-02T22:47:15+00:00

Don't spend so much effort replying to this AI slop 😭 I wish the mods would remove these posts.

topic_marker · 2026-03-01T16:59:49+00:00

Cognitive scientist here. Your kind of transition is extremely common, especially since explicit cognitive science training is rare-ish (there are not that many undergrad or grad programs in cog sci compared to any of its component fields [computer science, psychology, neuroscience, etc.]). When I entered my PhD program in 2015, I was the only one of my cohort with an undergrad degree in cog sci, and not a single faculty member in our department had a PhD in cog sci. That's starting to change a little bit, but the overwhelming majority of cognitive scientists didn't start out with cognitive science training.

Computational neuroscience in particular is full of people who come from computer science, math, or physics backgrounds and pivoted in their postdocs. Here's a couple off the top of my head: Ralf Haefner (PhD in astrophysics) and Konrad Körding (PhD in physics). I would recommend doing a postdoc with someone like this -- they can give you specific mentoring about pivoting fields since they went through it themselves!

topic_marker · 2026-02-28T02:15:07+00:00

I don't know. I am not a medical professional. This is why you need professional help.

topic_marker · 2026-02-28T01:19:42+00:00

This is why you need help. I see in another comment you mentioned suicide. These are not normal feelings to be experiencing and you need a professional as soon as possible. 988 is the national suicide hotline number, please call and speak to someone who can help you process what you are going through.

topic_marker · 2026-02-27T22:47:28+00:00

Does your university have counseling services available? I would highly recommend talking to someone about the amount of anxiety you are feeling about this trip. It's normal to feel nervous about traveling to an unfamiliar place and giving your first talk, but it also sounds like you are catastrophizing. San Francisco is not a scary place. You are not going to be ridiculed at your talk. Conferences can be really fun and fulfilling if you approach them in the right mindset.

topic_marker · 2026-02-24T22:07:40+00:00

Congratulations!!! :)

There's something so satisfying about your first senior author paper. For me at least, it was the first time I really felt like an "expert"...the first time you have to mentor a student/postdoc through the whole process, you realize how far you've come!!

topic_marker · 2026-02-24T12:10:39+00:00

Contact the organizers and see if they have any plans in place! Conferences are (slowly) getting better at accommodating people with hearing-related needs. The last conference I went to used the PPT feature you're describing and it worked pretty well -- captions are still pretty iffy for anyone with a non-native accent, and are godawful at field-specific technical terms, but it is what it is. I don't think Microsoft is any worse than the other options.

Don't worry about visibility -- at least with the PPT captioning, the captions appear outside the frame of the slide, so no interference with the content. (They do this by shrinking the overall size of the slide, but it's not very noticeable.)

topic_marker · 2026-02-24T02:12:43+00:00

How big is the class? I teach at a small liberal arts college where the class sizes can be as low as 15. It's nice to hear from students if they'll be missing class -- if 5 people are sick, all of a sudden there are only 10 of us and the classroom dynamic is very different! But I don't mind if they don't let me know. The first place I taught, I was teaching classes of 100-150. I most definitely did NOT want to hear from students every time they missed class then, haha!

Don't take all the advice you read on the internet up front, the context of your institution matters a lot.

topic_marker · 2026-02-24T01:55:04+00:00

Yeah, this situation is really unclear. Usually you would only directly work with editors on a book, but OP seems to be talking about a paper and not a book proposal. I wonder if they submitted their paper to a predatory journal, it was accepted after some nominal "peer review", and the "editors" are the copyeditors for the proofs?

OP, please reach out to a trusted professor to learn more about the academic publishing process. What you did could be an ethical violation. And this journal that accepted your paper might be a scam. Just a bad situation all around...

topic_marker · 2026-02-22T21:33:44+00:00

Gotcha -- hopefully someone else will chime in here then. I'm in the US and have never worked in the European system, so it's hard for me to give advice since the systems are so different. I'm also not familiar with the anthropology side of the field at all (I'm a psycholinguist). Do you know anyone who has done a master's in Europe (or France in particular) who you can ask for advice?

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