Coming soon: Don’t be an asshole reviewer!
Gather the reviews that you got for your research papers and grant applications. Everyone has one or more of those idiotic reviewers’ comments. Bring them out to have some fun.
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How to steal scientific ideas.
Science is a business of ideas. By its very definition, researchers are required to generate new ideas. However, the ideas do not pop up in vacuum. Astute researchers have to Continue reading
One PI =One R01 grant.
The great economic crisis in the Western world has affected the academic and research institutions. One of the major funding agencies NIH has seen effective funding cut that has translated Continue reading
Profitable reviews: Nature Immunology defends reviews.
In one of my previous rantings (Click here), I wrote about how journals publish reviews to improve their impact factor. Now, in the recent issue of Nature Immunology (Click here for Continue reading
Author ranking system: ‘Impact factor’ of the last author.
We all know that there is a very little room at the first author position on any scientific paper. There can only be one name. Even if two researchers equally Continue reading
Impact Factor: Who are you bullshitting?
At the lunch table, I was thinking of an experiment when my attention turned to a colleague whose paper was recently rejected by a medium caliber (read impact factor) journal Continue reading
Technician or Postdoc?
Postdocs are the slaves of the modern ‘Science Plantations’. If you look carefully, some cases of horrible treatments of the postdocs may just qualify to be the cases of human Continue reading
Should Scientific Misconduct be Criminalized?
It has been a while since the last post. It was not a ‘mysterious disappearance’. No, I have not been manhandled or killed. Not yet. I noticed an article (click Continue reading
Scamming the Antibody.
Has anyone noticed that suddenly there is a mushrooming growth of companies offering antibodies. Anything you can think of, protein, DNA, acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation- nothing is sacred anymore. All the Continue reading
Scientific misconduct: A prick-ly issue of gutless scientists.
Data forgery is a frikkin troublesome issue in scientific research. It is the same story every time: ”The damned post-doc fucked up the data! We are retracting the paper although Continue reading
