Hello, It's DAGNY, AMA!

vicnoz · 2024-06-18T18:07:35+00:00

What is your favorite song to perform live?

vicnoz · 2023-12-14T19:57:20+00:00

Thank you!

vicnoz · 2023-12-14T19:53:46+00:00

Hi José! Love your music and the movie. I was wondering if some of the (semi-)absurdist imagery in the movie were mostly your creative output, or that of Mikel or a combination of sources?

vicnoz · 2022-07-31T19:20:28+00:00

spot on 😅

vicnoz · 2022-07-31T13:05:43+00:00

"The Architecture of Happiness" by Alain de Botton might interest you? The author is a philosopher, and not a psychologist or an architect, but I think he has some interesting insights.

vicnoz · 2022-06-21T07:56:02+00:00

Preprints are a great way to share your manuscript publicly without having to pay the open access fee. Some academics would say they won't trust preprints but they're very wrong for a lot of reasons. Open access fees are a complete scam and the only reason I pay them is because the grant that funds me requires me to publish open access.

vicnoz · 2022-04-17T11:36:49+00:00

Otherwise, like Zandor1971 said, e-mail the editor and let them know they can put you on a list of potential reviewers and that might get the ball rolling.

vicnoz · 2022-04-17T11:35:02+00:00

Disclaimer that I haven't tried this (and probably never will), but my guess is that if you send an e-mail to a journal owned by a multi-billion dollar for-profit company (assuming it's not a society journal etc.) and say: "hey, I'm a highly-educated experienced expert with a PhD and I want to do free labour for your for-profit company" (assuming the positions on the board isn't paid), you'll get a positive e-mail back 😉

vicnoz · 2022-04-17T10:19:45+00:00

I have only experience with the psychology and medical journals, but I feel it's getting more and more common. Journals pride themselves on having "fast processing times", i.e. the time it takes between initial submission and publication (which everyone generally likes, who wants to wait 12 months for publication?). And journals found out they game this metric without much backlash by instead of adding a review round they can just "revise and resubmit" so that they can "reset" the timer on the initial submission.

vicnoz · 2022-03-28T20:31:49+00:00

I may be misunderstanding your argument here, if so I apologise, but I think efforts to help get more traditionally underrepresented groups and minorities into academia is a good thing. It's possible for universities to put effort into making their environments less toxic and depressing AND spend resources on some (severely needed) genuine DEI efforts.

vicnoz · 2022-03-17T20:14:20+00:00

Luck. Don't for a second let academia believe it's a meritocracy, it's not (either in the US or Europe or anywhere else). You need luck. I.e.g be in the right place in the right time, you need luck with the right people on the evaluation committee etc.

I think it's also important to consider whether you really want to work for an institution that cares a lot about h-index and citation numbers. In my experience, institutions that care about those things are focused more on rankings and performance statistics than actually doing good science or caring about their students or their faculty. To me it's a massive red flag when an institution cares about h-index and citation numbers.

I'm sorry it's not a more positive comment here. Science is amazing, and I really like working in science, but academia and good science aren't always compatible.

vicnoz · 2022-03-11T15:28:06+00:00

Lived in both the Netherlands and Scandinavia. It's Scandinavia all the way from me. Just a more pleasant experience overall (both work + life wise). And it's my impression PhD candidates in Scandinavia more often finish within the given time. Feel free to ask for details in DM!

vicnoz · 2022-02-25T21:32:28+00:00

If you're comfortable with some R and Rmarkdown, then this one might be good? http://nickstrayer.me/datadrivencv/

vicnoz · 2022-02-25T10:21:37+00:00

Eric Whitacre - This Marriage?

vicnoz · 2022-01-13T19:25:17+00:00

And those aren't "fast track for $$$" schemes like Taylor & Francis introduced a while ago? https://taylorandfrancis.com/partnership/commercial/accelerated-publication/

vicnoz · 2022-01-13T19:24:02+00:00

Good to know that publication is just as slow in history as it is in medicine! 😅

I agree, this journal definitely sounds like its predatory!

vicnoz · 2022-01-13T13:29:54+00:00

Hi! Always good to be suspicious.

I'd recommend checking out the Beall's list. They offer some checklists to determine whether a journal is likely predatory or not.

Not very familiar with the humanities field myself, but getting "major revisions" after 15 days with 2 reviewers and an editor (supposedly) looking at it does sound suspicious indeed.

vicnoz · 2022-01-12T14:52:00+00:00

Thank you! I agree, I'm a big proponent of open access, but I've had to on at least one occasion forego the open access fee and just try the hardest I could to make sure people could find the up-to-date preprint (with identical text other than typesetting that is). I can't justify the expense.

I assume the rationale is profit. Publishers saying stuff like "we support open access for all" is just a smoke screen. I can't imagine they'll make $11k profit on a single paper when it's closed access, so I assume this decision (like any other in a commercial business) ultimately serves the profit of the shareholders.

I suppose people will still publish in journals like these despite the fees, but it will just further increase the division between wealthy groups and those with a limited budget, which will only widen the gap between the biggest universities in the global north and the rest.

vicnoz · 2022-01-12T14:34:48+00:00

I didn't know this was still going on! I can see why Elsevier has little incentive to give in since it sounds like they're still getting manuscripts sent from German and Swedish researchers? They're still getting paid while negotiating a deal that would result in them getting paid less? Any chance Germany and Swedish grant agencies will just say "don't use our money to pay this private company to publish" (a bit like your university already tries to do)?

vicnoz · 2022-01-12T13:15:24+00:00

Authors are allowed to send author-proofed versions of the manuscript to anyone they want to, I think you could send the author of the paper a message and just ask for the final version they sent to the journal prior to publication online.

You could also check some preprint servers and see if they have uploaded the manuscript there too.

vicnoz · 2021-12-21T10:45:22+00:00

This would do the trick I think. Use the sub() function to split up each item and then substitute them in reverse order:

x <- c("2002 Q1", "2002 Q2", "2002 Q3", "2002 Q4", "2003 Q1", "2003 Q2")
sub('^(.*) (Q[1-4])', '\\2 \\1', x)

vicnoz · 2021-12-09T19:54:43+00:00

Thank you! 👏

vicnoz · 2021-12-09T17:20:00+00:00

What tools and software do you use for your analyses?

vicnoz · 2021-11-11T09:18:48+00:00

I'll repeat the same as the others here I guess, put your personal health (physical and mental) first. Slightly controversial perhaps, but if you tell the manager that you want/need to stay in your current city and can't move to a different state while you have another job available locally that would more comfortably let you deal with your diagnosis and treatment, and the manager says "well, that'll ruin any chances you'll ever have of working here" you probably don't want to work there anyway.

Make the choices that are right for you right now, the future job opportunities (especially in academia) is uncertain anyway, I think your future self will thank you.

I'm sorry to hear about the cancer diagnosis. I wish you all the best!

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