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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
As some of you know im suffering weird #neurological symptoms atm. The last week has been pretty awful. One of the weirder symptoms is called micrographia: writing getting smaller and smaller.
↙️ My writing on Tuesday (bad not awful day)
My writing on Wednesday (awful day) ↘️ The words: corporate → research & development Location: coThe words: brief [blanked out] on extension Written in small
Micrographia in itself *can* be an early sign of conditions like #Parkinsons

In patients with Parkinsons, closing their eyes whilst writing can often help mitigate micrographia
(in my case the rapid onset followed by rapid improvement makes me think / hope its just whatever the fuck is going on with my neuro-immunology not a sign of whats to come...😬)
(tweeting for science, not sympathy 🤗)
Info on micrographia and Parkinson's
parkinsonsdisease.net/symptoms/micro…

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during my #PhD, i conducted a side project investigating what the barriers are towards making changes to the #academicpublishing system to reduce publication #bias

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

this showed me a rather dark side to #academia... 1/8

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praise: "it's great you're so keen and have grasped key issues and taken action so early..." 2/8
hate: "you're too early in your career and naïve to understand these issues. you shouldn't be researching this"

more worryingly, whilst i did get a lot of this feedback in person/by email, some of it was BEHIND MY BACK to my colleagues 3/8
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11 Nov 20
ok i've used R now for about 10 hours so im definitely suitably enough experienced to say i hate it, its a big pile of shit, i dont know why this is what is popular, and i wish i had access to stata again. WAHHHHH
im sure people can tell me a million reasons why R is great. sorry to say: YOU'RE WRONG.
i will delete these tweets in a few weeks when it finally clicks and i think R is brilliant like everyone else does
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11 Nov 20
when it comes to engaging #STEM #academics (an essential task in order to gain max momentum to tackle problems like #casualisation), i think 1 difficulty is that #activism uses a lot of logical fallacies. this makes taking action appear irrational 1/15

#AcademicChatter #ucu
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stories of injustice = anecdote, appeal to emotion

statistics = potentially cherry picked

calling out management = potential ad hominem

quoting/critiquing management = potential strawman
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making broad statements (e.g. gender pay gap is a real problem) = ambiguity fallacy
3/15
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11 Sep 20
i promised in this thread i'd offer an idea of an alternative #academic #publishing model, so here it is. be prepared, changing to this would require some seriously radical change... 1/17

#AcademicChatter #academicpublishing #academicjournals #peerreview #ecrchat #openaccess
i outlined in the thread linked above MANY flaws with academic publishing, so let's completely get rid of the current system.

in its place we have one global central database, funded by governments/unis collectively 2/17
everything gets uploaded to this database. this is our new single journal.

articles can be rolling, so they can be registered reports, the final piece, or you can add new data if you analyse more stuff. its flexible. 3/17
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so now ive published my paper on a #preprint (osf.io/preprints/nutr…), its worth comparing my experience with typical #peerreview publishing, mainly to highlight how much time & energy we waste with a system that offers very little added value
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il do this comparison with the last paper i got formally accepted to a journal as these 2 co-occured so there's no "time effect" or anything as a confounder. (JP = journal publishing; PP = preprint publishing) 2/9
JP: rejected 6 times (i think); 3 were editorial rejections *explicitly* mentioning the null findings as a reason for rejection
PP: paper is out there open for anyone to openly critique and i welcome this 3/9
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