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No, I didn't reply thrice.
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
No, I didn't reply thrice.
No, I didn't reply thrice.
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
No, I didn't reply thrice.
No, I didn't reply thrice.
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
No, I didn't reply thrice.
No, I didn't reply thrice.
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
No, I didn't reply thrice.
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et alia,
I am too old to apply to this position.
But, as an Old Man Not at the Sea, I still do have a question for you, you the British Lady:
Would I qualify?
If yes, why?
If not, why not?
Soul-searching (don't involve those Indians attacking you; i'm not one of them) is required for this application by me to you.
Why do you get money? to ask for assistantships? Why don't I? Even if you were just like one of my students?
And, if you do accept the latter, why does Sir Roger Penrose have to get by with multiple stabs --- murder, he could not manage --- at physics, with the knife of mathematics?
Just tell me, young lady...
... Yes, I could easily have asked any young girl who sat in one of my classes (or attended one of my faculty meetings wherein I was the group leader).
... Yes, I do have an experience of teaching a class entirely consisting of just one young girl attending the class (not necessarily my class) enthusiastically, nevertheless.
Some things don't matter. Other things do. Since I noted that you do have a research budget, I thought of popping up such questions.
Don't bother.
I am at a different level. I just proved Einstein wrong. (My lone student in that class would've understood how to react, without replying this message, if my recollections are correct.)
Since you are an England-based Brit, I recommend watching this movie to you [one of your Dad/Mom's generation, in case they haven't, err, in the Western tradition, separated already]: ``Educating Rita''.
Best,
--Ajit
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et alia,
I am too old to apply to this position.
But, as an Old Man Not at the Sea, I still do have a question for you, you the British Lady:
Would I qualify?
If yes, why?
If not, why not?
Soul-searching (don't involve those Indians attacking you; i'm not one of them) is required for this application by me to you.
Why do you get money? to ask for assistantships? Why don't I? Even if you were just like one of my students?
And, if you do accept the latter, why does Sir Roger Penrose have to get by with multiple stabs --- murder, he could not manage --- at physics, with the knife of mathematics?
Just tell me, young lady...
... Yes, I could easily have asked any young girl who sat in one of my classes (or attended one of my faculty meetings wherein I was the group leader).
... Yes, I do have an experience of teaching a class entirely consisting of just one young girl attending the class (not necessarily my class) enthusiastically, nevertheless.
Some things don't matter. Other things do. Since I noted that you do have a research budget, I thought of popping up such questions.
Don't bother.
I am at a different level. I just proved Einstein wrong. (My lone student in that class would've understood how to react, without replying this message, if my recollections are correct.)
Since you are an England-based Brit, I recommend watching this movie to you [one of your Dad/Mom's generation, in case they haven't, err, in the Western tradition, separated already]: ``Educating Rita''.
Best,
--Ajit
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et alia,
I am too old to apply to this position.
But, as an Old Man Not at the Sea, I still do have a question for you, you the British Lady:
Would I qualify?
If yes, why?
If not, why not?
Soul-searching (don't involve those Indians attacking you; i'm not one of them) is required for this application by me to you.
Why do you get money? to ask for assistantships? Why don't I? Even if you were just like one of my students?
And, if you do accept the latter, why does Sir Roger Penrose have to get by with multiple stabs --- murder, he could not manage --- at physics, with the knife of mathematics?
Just tell me, young lady...
... Yes, I could easily have asked any young girl who sat in one of my classes (or attended one of my faculty meetings wherein I was the group leader).
... Yes, I do have an experience of teaching a class entirely consisting of just one young girl attending the class (not necessarily my class) enthusiastically, nevertheless.
Some things don't matter. Other things do. Since I noted that you do have a research budget, I thought of popping up such questions.
Don't bother.
I am at a different level. I just proved Einstein wrong. (My lone student in that class would've understood how to react, without replying this message, if my recollections are correct.)
Since you are an England-based Brit, I recommend watching this movie to you [one of your Dad/Mom's generation, in case they haven't, err, in the Western tradition, separated already]: ``Educating Rita''.
Best,
--Ajit
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et
In reply to Postdoctoral position in Mechanics of Degradable Polymers at Oxford University
Dear young Laurence at Oxford of Ash et alia's Roger Penrose et alia,
I am too old to apply to this position.
But, as an Old Man Not at the Sea, I still do have a question for you, you the British Lady:
Would I qualify?
If yes, why?
If not, why not?
Soul-searching (don't involve those Indians attacking you; i'm not one of them) is required for this application by me to you.
Why do you get money? to ask for assistantships? Why don't I? Even if you were just like one of my students?
And, if you do accept the latter, why does Sir Roger Penrose have to get by with multiple stabs --- murder, he could not manage --- at physics, with the knife of mathematics?
Just tell me, young lady...
... Yes, I could easily have asked any young girl who sat in one of my classes (or attended one of my faculty meetings wherein I was the group leader).
... Yes, I do have an experience of teaching a class entirely consisting of just one young girl attending the class (not necessarily my class) enthusiastically, nevertheless.
Some things don't matter. Other things do. Since I noted that you do have a research budget, I thought of popping up such questions.
Don't bother.
I am at a different level. I just proved Einstein wrong. (My lone student in that class would've understood how to react, without replying this message, if my recollections are correct.)
Since you are an England-based Brit, I recommend watching this movie to you [one of your Dad/Mom's generation, in case they haven't, err, in the Western tradition, separated already]: ``Educating Rita''.
Best,
--Ajit
Thank you for highlighting my
In reply to Discussion of fracture paper #41 - Are dislocations good or bad guys? It depends!
Thank you for highlighting my recent paper in the official blog of ESIS and iMechanica. I also acknowledge the introduction of the stress field around an edge dislocation from the theory of elasticity.
In the paper, I treated a series of dislocation penetration at a grain boundary by MD simulation and fracture mechanics by replacing a dislocation pile-up as a mode II crack. The treatment is based on energy criteria, i.e. the energy release rate is larger than the materials resistance related to the formation energy of a step in GB at the penetration.
The theory agreed with the MD results quite well. On the other hand, some researchers treated the dislocation penetration through the dislocation bow-out mechanism from GBs, and shear stress and the distance between both ends of bow-out dislocation were used for the condition.
I have interests in the applicability of the energy criterion to other GBs and more general cases. Also, how energy and stress criteria should be treated in dislocation penetration at GBs.
Ryosuke Matsumoto
A note on Fiorillo index for not misusing it !
In reply to The Fiorillo index -- a new index to attempt to spot citation gaming
Dear all
having created a bit of confusion about the Fiorillo index before the summer break, with a couple of colleagues who were also sorry to be "suspected" by the Fiorillo index of having done citation gaming and orchestration, I wanted to delve deeper into the issue and apologize to my colleagues by writing a small note, in which I correct Fiorillo's conclusions and suggest not to apply this index except for statistical or very preliminary studies, to be integrated with in-depth qualitative analyses of suspected cases. I hope the reading is interesting. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383532645
regards, MC
Caught it! Endicott, New York, United States of America...
In reply to My doc on STR, incomplete, myself leaked, version 1
Yeah, you ``NLP'' dude in Endicott, New York, United States of America...
Read it again!
LOL!
Best (for whatever!), and permanently get lost, OK?
--Ajit
Ioannidis from Stanford has a paper also about Fiorillo index
In reply to The Fiorillo index -- a new index to attempt to spot citation gaming
Ioannidis has proposed (after Fiorillo) a very similar index (the inverse of FI) as a marker of small scale orchestration, see: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19219 I think one has to be cautious though about interpreting values that are not extreme.
I have added a correlation with the Stanford database ranking
In reply to The Fiorillo index -- a new index to attempt to spot citation gaming
See in the main post the image posted as attachment "FiorilloScore-Rank-Ioannidis.jpg" where you can see that being in the top 100 000 scientists in the world according to Ioannidis Stanford ranking is incompatible with having FiorilloScore>40 ----- hence FiorilloScore is a very quick tool to spot low quality scientists, independently on their discipline, with a calculation far simpler than the Ioannidis calculation involving a 5 dimensional parameter space. Moreover, many scientists do not enter in that database, and for them the Fiorillo score is even more appropriate.
You also find as attachment another figure, "FiorilloScore-selfcitations.jpg" where a correlation is attempted with % of self-citations. There is a clear trend to have higher Fiorillo index if you have very high % of self-citations, confirming that the Fiorello index is a good mix to spot citation gaming and also self-citation excesses...
Thanks!
In reply to thanks
Thank you John for your feedback!
I agree that Clarivate is supposed to be "publisher-neutral data" as stated on their website, nevertheless, they handle a paid and rather opaque platform which is not compatible with Open Science principles. There are alternative open projects, like, for example, OpenAlex, which could be used in the future.
I also agree that getting a lot of traction without indexation could be a problem, but anyway, I believe that a forced alignment with commercial indices is not a good long-term solution for Diamond OA initiatives.
thanks
In reply to John,
I understand the principled argument. With Clarivate, although they are in this space they are disconnected from the publishing process itself. I view them as less of a problem but perhaps I haven't considered this aspect as fully as you have.
Unfortunately my sense is that the indexing drives many decisions, globally. Breaking from it completely might make it a challenge for the journal to really gain traction with the community, to the point where it can genuinely compete with some of the top journals. Nevertheless, I wish it the best of luck and will certainly pay attention to it.
SF DORA
John,
In reply to regarding the indexing
John,
Thank you for your interest!
The core motivation behind this non-indexation with these citation databases is the conflict of interest and of values. These databases are owned by Elsevier and Clarivate, for-profit organizations and not by the scientific community, therefore I see a conflict of interest on their side to promote Diamond Open Access journals which chase ethical, open and free publishing strategy.
Since we believe that the scientific community can judge on their own the relevance of a journal and its quality, we do not really need Elsevier to tell us which journal is good and which one is not. In what concerns the administration, it is more tricky, but in France at least, a lot of decisions on promotion and hiring are made by the academics, so the administration normally follows our recommendations.
There are also several stories about increasing external pressure from these databases on the number of papers, which we would like to avoid.
In conclusion, it is hard to win or even survive in this publication "game" if the rules are written by Elsevier and the referee is also Elsevier. We prefer to offer different values and establish a more sustainable set of rules.
John,
In reply to please tell me more about JTCAM!
John,
Thank you for your interest!
Briefly, JTCAM is the first (and as far as I know, the only) Overlay Diamond Open Access journal in mechanics. Overlay means that it exploits open archives, such as arXiv, the French HAL, and Zenodo, to store papers and version control.
The authors, after sharing preprints on open archives, submit a link to the preprint, and the review process is classical and is handled by Associate Editors (there's no EIC). The review can be single-blind or not-blind-at-all depending on the choice of the reviewer. However, whatever the choice, the review is published alongside the paper. See, for example:
- Audoly, B. and Lestringant, C. (2023). An energy approach to asymptotic, higher-order, linear homogenization, Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics [doi]
- Audoly, B., Lestringant, C., Seppecher, P., Pasini, D., Ganghoffer, J.F., Brassart, L. Review of "An energy approach to asymptotic, higher-order, linear homogenization" [HAL]
- The journal is indexed in the DOAJ and we do not plan to be indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.
- The journal is free for authors and readers (no APC = Diamond Open Access) and relies on the existing infrastructure arXiv, HAL, and we are hosted by a French platform Episciences.org.
- Associate editors are elected by the journal's Board which includes a Scientific Advisory Board, Editorial Board, and Technical Board.
- We have a Data Editor who checks the data consistency and helps the authors to share their data, here's a [Zenodo community]
Regarding the real cost of publishing, if we do not count the [Episciences.org] platform and the cost of arXiv and HAL, it resides in very high standards of copy-editing that we ensure:
- All plots are in vector graphics.
- All references are triple-checked and whenever available, we provide not only DOI but also sustainable OA links including (HAL, arXiv, etc.).
- All tables and equations should be consistent and well-formatted.
For the moment, at the start, we have a dedicated Technical Board which takes care of that, but we are about to improve this point with some minor funding from French institutions.
Elsevier has its profits:other publishers are run by secretaries
In reply to Lessons Learned from 14 years as an Editor-In-Chief (for Elsevier)
Thank you for this interesting debate. From my experience about other publishers, which are often called predatory, or just about at the border with predatory, the question is proliferation of email spamming, robots finding (weak) reviewers, fast publication, all this is against quality. Many journals are run by secretaries, not scientists.
See about MPDI for example https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publi...
Regards
Mike
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