Emory Physics was at the @ATLSciFest Expo today! It was a blast as usual. The Emory Society of Physics Students showed up to represent! We had dancing oobleck...
Tiny Brazilian frogs’ inner ear canals are too small to help them balance well, explaining why they are clumsy jumpers.
🐸 Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: https://t.co/LuLkmGVnmg @ScienceAdvances
Soft Matter by @WimvanSaarloos, Vincenzo Vitelli, & Zorana Zeravcic introduces key phenomena and concepts in soft matter from a modern perspective, marrying established knowledge with the latest developments and applications.
Out March 26, learn more: https://t.co/VicCY2FBiw
Art and science meet in a study of the fluid dynamics behind the dendritic painting technique of artist @akikonkym, in which an ink and alcohol mix is applied atop paint, creating intricate tree-like patterns. In PNAS Nexus: https://t.co/KB8UbxRBM7
A deadly avalanche at the Palisades Tahoe ski resort, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics, shows the risk as snow layers melt and new snow falls.
Read from @CUEngineering Associate Professor Nathalie Vriend, a via the @ConversationUS https://t.co/EPhP7i1i3N
⚡Lightning Strike Hits Wind Turbine Blade in Texas⚡
A lightning strike reportedly struck a wind turbine in Crowell, Texas in July 2022. The turbine created swirls of smoke as it continued to burn.
CFD Simulation: https://t.co/CDkm4PAvCU
Source: @HowThingsWork_
Hey science twitter! It's my pleasure to announce that we have (finally) finished creating a FREE software for performing background oriented schlieren (BOS) processing based on our optical flow algorithm.
It's available for download here: https://t.co/E09jKq9l5X
#CFD simulation of gas injection at the bottom of a water pool using the Volume-of-Fluid method. This setup is relevant for processes such as flotation or pool scrubbing. The latter is investigated in our @BMBF_Bund funded project #iCFD4NS. More: https://t.co/afD9flFHKS
"Lectures on turbulence"
by Roberto Benzi and Federico Toschi
https://t.co/dYCQyhPkw1
now in open access from Physics Reports
Volume 1021, 6 June 2023, Pages 1-106
Rejection of your paper or grant has NO relevance to the opinion of #research community. It is nothing but the opinion of one person.
Several examples:
1. The first paper on graphene was rejected from Nature because “it did not constitute a sufficient scientific advance”. Later, it was awarded a Nobel prize.
2. The first manuscript showing the microbiome-brain connection was published after 7 submissions that took 3 years. Today, this field has exploded. I expect it will get a Nobel prize in the future.
3. Theodore Maiman tried to publish a paper describing the first operating laser in Physical Review Letters and… got a rejection!
4. Peter Ratcliffe, who worked on cells’ response to changes in oxygen levels, got his key paper rejected from Nature (see photo). Later, he was awarded a Nobel Prize for this work.
And there are many other examples…
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And yet I see so many young scientists stressing about rejections. For some reason, they seem to genuinely expect that the editors should know which study is truly worth it.
As a result, many rejections are met with surprise and disbelief:
“How could they reject it? They publish so much trash, and yet they think our detailed 3-year-long study is not interesting to the community! WHY?”
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Well, the reality is:
- Most editors have very little time to delve into your study. They can easily FAIL to recognize the potential impact of your study. Proper communication in the cover letter and clear writing style can help (although only to a limited degree).
- Many reviewers have little idea about the science in your paper. But they can have a big ego. So, if they have a bad day or were rejected recently, it’s easy for them to find 1000 technical reasons to reject your paper as well.
- Most scientists genuinely don’t know if your discovery can make any impact. If we could predict the course of science, we would be living very differently!
My message is simple:
Forget about objectivity. Academia is a very subjective world. Fight for objectivity but don’t take it for granted.
A great study will be found, cited and recognized. Disregard of where it’s published.
A bad study requires a high-impact journal to be found and cited. But the long-time recognition might be a problem.
High-IF journals are simply billboards. Their rejections do NOT represent the opinion of a scientific community.
You can get rejected but don’t reject yourself!
Believe in your results.
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
Just submitted a fun piece about interacting particles in confined fluctuating environments. So proud of our first student Yating Wang who did a brilliant job!
Learn more about nanoscale super-shakers below!
https://t.co/UC8zvmOpXQ #fluid#softmatter#nanopores - 1/7