Miscellaneous stuff

Overly Honest Methods
The Twitter hash tag  #OverlyHonestMethods is for ”Sharing the overly honest posts by scientists everywhere.”

Shit my reviewers say
A collections of corrosive comments from peer reviewers.

A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper
Feeling frustrated while working on a manuscript – especially when it comes to these pesky comments from the reviewers? An anonymous author of a journal paper put words to these feelings in a letter which I hope is authentic.

A brief guide to scientific literature
A classic! This was circulating already in the eighties when I was a chemistry student at Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Anyone who knows more about its origin?

Videos

The Lab
A great comedy series about graduate students in a science lab.

Stuck To You
Josh Ritter’s hilarious science song (the lyrics).

Bad academic writing

I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
Calvin (1985–95), American cartoon figure

The Bad Writing Contest,1996-1998

 

 

 

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