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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 4d

⚠️ Faults don’t slip evenly!!
Varying slip rates along faults drive complex earthquake cycle patterns, yet they are overlooked in seismic hazard assessments.
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 6d

Submission day is approaching, and already 24 hours before the submission deadline this ancient-looking platform buckles under the strain of at least 100 scientists trying to submit their projects. Stress testing clearly wasn't part of the development objectives...

Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 16d

Spending half my day filling out forms on yet another CV platform mandated by a particular funding agency. Can't we just export/import a simple XML/JSON from one platform into another?

See also: xkcd.com/927/

XKCD comic with stick figures. Title says "How standards proliferate". Panel one says "Situation: there are 14 competing standards". Character in panel two says "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases". Panel three says "Soon: Situation: there are 15 competing standards"

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks for the summary. Familiar scenes from the previous platform

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 15d

I'm out of the loop. What did Leadership day/do?

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 16d

What is particularly annoying about this particular platform, is that it will log you out after a set amount of time (instead of a set amount of inactivity). Did you just write out an entire author list for this publication? How about I log you out first so you can do it again?

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 16d

Spending half my day filling out forms on yet another CV platform mandated by a particular funding agency. Can't we just export/import a simple XML/JSON from one platform into another?

See also: xkcd.com/927/

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 27d

I'd consider the impact factor to represent the journal's ability to generate citations. Whether that correlates with a positive author experience is anybody's guess. I'd rather see some kind of "social impact factor" that measures the wellbeing of authors, reviewers, and editors.

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anthonysladen.bsky.social @anthonysladen.bsky.social · 28d

scirev.org 👈
"SciRev.org is [...] offering researchers the opportunity to share their experiences and select an efficient journal to submit their work." And guess what: "The website is owned and maintained by [...] a non-profit organization located in The Netherlands."

SciRev - Review the scientific review process

scirev.org

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 27d

Exactly that! We need to make it more popular amongst our community. And they need to index Seismica!

Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28d

I'm sure that there are many other journals out there that can act with complacency and negligence, knowing that their reputation is mostly derived from the Impact Factor. We need more push-back from the community to ensure they are meeting their "high quality standard" that we are paying $$$ for.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28d

I just had a manuscript returned to me and my co-authors after almost 3 months since submission. The main reason: we declared funding in the acknowledgements but not in the metadata. I could fill out an "author satisfaction survey", but this will not change anything, and the world deserves to know

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 28d

We need a rating/review site for academic journals. Something like Yelp, but for academia. As far as I can tell, there is currently no mechanism to hold journals accountable for editorial malpractice, or to provide feedback that is transparent and visible to the public.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · 29d

I was just asked to review a paper, but I had to look up several words from the title in a dictionary. I took that as a sign that I'm not qualified for this assignment.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 13

I haven't seen those in a long while, but had I filled them out truthfully, half my family and friends could get into my user account at any time. They should have asked more private questions, like "Business address of your drug dealer" or "Name of your second mistress"

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Jannes Münchmeyer @jannesmunch.bsky.social · Aug 11

SeisBench v.10 is out and it's time for some new models:
- SkyNet allows picking regional phases and can even distinguish Pn, Pg, Sn, Sg (beware of the Terminator though)
- SeisDAE brings easily retrainable seismic waveform denoising

Check out all changes here:
github.com/seisbench/se...

Release SeisBench v0.10 - SkyNet, SeisDAE and a more powerful model API · seisbench/seisbench

Major updates The SkyNet model is now available in SeisBench. SkyNet is specifically designed to pick phase arrivals at regional distances (up to 20 degree) and also comes with a set of weights to...

github.com

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 12

This PSA was prompted by an email from Sapienza's IT to renew my password that looked suspiciously like a phishing attempt. When you do notify users, never say "Click here to learn more"...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 12

PSA to all IT departments out there: mandatory periodic password changes are no longer recommended (cybersecuritynews.com/nist-rules-p...).

And requiring at least one capital letter, a number, and a special character has a 50% chance of resulting in "P@ssword123". Offer MFA instead.

NIST Recommends New Rules for Password Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released updated guidelines for password security, marking a significant shift from traditional password practices.

cybersecuritynews.com

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 11

I indeed suspect an overly-zealous find-replace tool. I initially feared that Overleaf had enabled an AI language tool that automatically "corrected" my writing, but fortunately that was not the case. But given how many scientific terms end with -or, I anticipate more victims of this macro...

Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 8

I could understand how this could happen for a non-specialist journal, but this journal supposedly specialises in trees. They should have known how to typeset Latin species names.

Want to see for yourself? academic.oup.com/treephys/art.... I will gladly send you a copy if you don't have access.

Using fibre-optic sensing for non-invasive, continuous dendrometry of mature tree trunks

Abstract. Dendrometry is the main non-invasive macroscopic technique commonly used in plant physiology and ecophysysiology studies. Over the years several

academic.oup.com

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 8

Yet another strike for the Tree Physiology journal: I noticed (too late) that the copy-editors rewrote Latin species names into EN-GB spelling: Brachychiton discolor became Brachychiton discolour everywhere in my manuscript!

Fortunately I didn't pay anything for this "high quality typesetting"...

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 6

DMs are open for inquiries or assistance with the French application portal.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Aug 6

Measuring rock slides is cool, but modelling rock slides is cool too. So why not do both? Come join us at the beautiful Côte d'Azur! We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity available in the framework of the ERC UNREST project. Application window is open until 25 August: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - PhD Thesis: Multi-scale seismic characterization of active rockslides: from internal deformation to mass movement dynamics (M/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · Aug 5

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Jul 29

When you back-up your data to the same drive as the original data...

A big red/brown sign saying in big white letters "Projet Grand Site de l'Estérel - Massif de l'Estérel". Next to it is a slightly smaller sign with exactly the same layout and text

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Martijn van den Ende @martijnende.bsky.social · Jul 28

And the reason I was able to take that picture, is that there were no trams either, so I had to walk. Lunchtime= you drive a car or you stay where you are...

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