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

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• An article from Popular Science

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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