Finally read the "too many papers" paper and I have to say I don't buy their argument at all Sure, there are a lot of papers published each year and no one can keep up with the literature. But I don't see anything in their results that strongly supports their narrative model of fields being "ossified" by too many papers.

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Here's the wording I stumbled onto this year:

"Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is the consequence of applying Mendel's laws to a [large, randomly mating, diploid] population."

https://twitter.com/joelmcglothlin/status/1440780670033268738

One of the reasons students have a hard time understanding HWE is that the wrong things get emphasized. Here are the right messages, in my opinion:
1. HWE shows that Mendelian inheritance doesn't directly change allele frequencies or genotype frequencies on its own

I have expressed skepticism about open peer review before, but I just submitted my first public peer review for @eLife and I really like how they have it set up. The public review is just an assessment of the paper, and the nitty-gritty suggestions only go to the author. No one really needs to see that detailed stuff, but a public assessment is great.

I finished my three-year term as an AE at Evolution in December. I was curious about my editor statistics so I looked them up today. I'm sharing some of them here in case you're interested in what being an AE is like. First, being an AE is a lot of work, and the work varies depending on the journal. So if you're considering accepting an AE slot, get an idea about how many MSs you will have in your queue at any one time.

OK, now that this thing is in the bag, a couple of election thoughts from a voter and occasional door-knocker. Biden and Harris ran a good campaign and did what they had to do. This election was necessarily about Trump. The main goal was to defeat him and they did it. They knew what states they had to take back, and they focused on them like a laser.

Still leaving this thread blank. Don't want to mess up the joke. But...

https://twitter.com/joelmcglothlin/status/1324706172558020609

I have to give this guy credit for at least saying Trump has presented no evidence

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1324503564891414528?s=20

As someone who grew up a blue kid in a red state, this moment absolutely warms my heart. Georgia voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, and Tennessee (where I grew up) voted for him both times. But in 2000 Republicans completely swept the South. This is the first chink in the Republican's armor in the Deep South since then.

I said something in a reply that appeared to blame ECRs for the culture of Nature/Science papers being overvalued in evaluating job candidates, award recipients, etc. I do not believe this at all. For the record, here are my thoughts on chasing papers in glam journals. (Thread) Nature and Science are important in that they highlight work that is likely to be interesting to the public and/or across disciplines. Many huge/important discoveries are published in these journals.

I thought I should say a few words about this article and the irresponsible things the authors are saying about it in the press, because creationists have latched onto it, or at least onto the sensationalist online coverage of it. phe.rockefeller.edu/news/wp-conten… The paper is quite a mess, with lots of incoherent arguments jumbled together. The authors' main goal, though, is to put a different spin on data they published elsewhere: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

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