A Natural Scientist

In grad school, I was EIC for a small journal.  (Before that, I was on the editorial board for a couple years.)  This involved reading hundr...

I was reading about Miss MSE's lab-teaching joys and it reminded me of when I was TAing Bear in mind that Snooty U, as an institutio...

Rather a while ago, I was speaking with the talented and thoughtful Darcy on publishing. (I still find it hard to believe that humanities p...

There's this professor, let's call him C, on the next floor down. He was a co-teacher when I was... er, strongly encouraged... to ...

Dr. S has a new favorite phrase, from a paper he read recently. They describe their mutation as hegemonic . (For the non-scientists: They...

Inspired by this , I bring you another installment of 'Needed a Better Editor': Recently I saw a blurb on the cover of David Drake...

By the way, although Dr. Jekyll has already mentioned it, this is one of the funniest retractions I've ever read: In this Article, the...

Although the phrase 'deranged energy metabolism' does appear in the medical literature, I do not think it should .

Or, Things That Make My Editor's Soul Rejoice The opposition blames the government and the pro-government Muttonhead Quail Movement (MQ...

This past year, my sister sent me a draft of her advisor's grant. It was terrible. Maybe he didn't read the instructions; maybe he w...

-The journal's new website and new open-access publishing both going online the same day. -The fact that we have content for the next fo...

Editing! It has untold joys. Our journal, for a variety of unpleasant reasons, has not yet published the second issue of the year. What y...

Chers Messieurs et Mesdames les auteurs, Endnote is your very best friend. References in numerical order as they appear. Why? Why is this...

Dear Author, Dude, thanks for calling our long-suffering staff editor four (4) times from Brazil! According to our lame-o records, you sent...