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wrigleyfield , 7 months ago to academicchatter

The best laugh line in the talk I gave last week was, "We're using X method, which was discovered in 2018 by the economists Y and Z... and also discovered ten years earlier by the sociologists A and B"

Oh, economists... never change

(please change)

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wrigleyfield , 8 months ago to academicchatter

My variant on "journal takes three months to copy-edit and then gives you 48 hours to review the proofs" is

"journal sits on timely results for seven weeks and then gives two weeks for a fairly tricky R&R (for which they also want you to do all the little stuff they use if an article is actually accepted, like writing tweets and finicky figure formatting)"

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wrigleyfield , 8 months ago to academicchatter

Weird professional norms question re social science #PeerReview

A great reviewer objected to a measure I used by giving a long summary of problems with historical newspapers as sources in the era I discuss. The reviewer is correct, & as a result, I'm moving that set of results to an appendix & contextualizing them with a summary of the issues

The reviewer didn't point me to sources & I've only found them for some of the specific points. I can't just quote the review, can I?!

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wrigleyfield , 9 months ago to academicchatter

Anyone have a list of universities that now ask in faculty hires some version of:

"Have you ever been found responsible for sexual misconduct by a uni or professional association; are you currently under investigation; or have you left a job while under investigation?"

...or any articles about this practice?

I'm asking bc my department is hiring and our university won't let us ask this, and we'd like context as we argue with them about it

#SexualHarassment #MeTooAcademia

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wrigleyfield , 11 months ago to academicchatter

Soc: “Since the dawn of creation, people have struggled for social status and power” but fancier

(“Analyses since at least the time of Weber [1922] have recognized the impersonal nature of bureaucracies…”)

Demography: I don’t know. Demographers do things normally & our articles are perfect

Philosophy: (never pub'd, just many term papers)

Philosophy stands out for the precision of the writing norms by which one parades as a genius, perhaps the strangest costume of them all

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wrigleyfield , 11 months ago to random

I'm the reviewer you want today: I just submitted an "accept as-is" on this R&R two hours after receiving it. Somebody give me a cookie (or send this kind reviewer energy my way, please).