The Lazy Reader

Just one long read per week—and then some 😉

[ringworm @prawn_meat]

her voice was as silky as silken tofu. but her words were as firm as extra firm tofu

[Isa @isaperezxx]

There’s a guy on tiktok who owns a company where you can complain about your boss anonymously and he goes to your work and cuss them out for you 😂

[Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals]

Who reviewed this paper?

A few days ago @gcabanac tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: https://t.co/FpSr5QLPfW. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny.

Since reading that tweet, we have not been able to get it out of our head, so we thught that we would document it in a little more detail. We are doing this for three reasons.

1️⃣ In our view, it descerves more detail to be made available.

2️⃣ We'd like these details to be be kept as a matter of public record, so we are posting similar posts on our X account and our LinkedIn account.

3️⃣ It should be of interest to this community, so we hope that this raises even further the ethical issues around this topic.

The first image shows the paper that we are looking at. What is interesting is the text that appears on at the end of the introduction (highlighted in red). This appears to show that the reviewer insisted that a set of 13 papers be cited, else they would not accept the paper. It would be interesting to see the review repport, so that we could be certain what had been said. If you want to see the paper, it is available here: https://t.co/mlv5UDdp5T

In the rest of this 🧵, we show the papers that have been asked to be cited (i.e. [35]-[47]). These have been taken from the paper mentioned above. You'll notice (as we have highlighted it) that every paper is "et al." meaning, of course, that there are quite a few authors on each paper.

Gicven that we cannot see all the authors, the other images on this 🧵 shows the full set of authors on each of these 13 papers.

We leave it an an exercise for the reader to hazard a guess as to the reviewr is?

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics will organise a workshop hosted in the global north, attended by the global north, and citing the global north, and call it "connecting with the global south"

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

Ireland's parliament officially passes a motion declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

[Amanda Gelender🔮 @agelender]

A pogrom?? Go fuck yourself.

I’m Jewish & live in The Netherlands & am proud to see the complete & total rejection of fascist Nazi Zionism in our streets.

There’s an *actual* Zionist holocaust against Palestine right now & per usual, Zionists are committed to playing the victim

[Arno Rosenfeld @ArnoRosenfeld]

NEW: I spoke with Jews in Amsterdam

“Were Jews attacked in the streets? Yes, but those Jews were also violent hooligans,” one told me.

https://t.co/3edKgiuVNm

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

At least per exit polls, Harris's center pivot toward independents and Cheney Republicans seems like it got her less than nothing: -1% from Biden's share of Republican identifiers, -5% from Biden's share of independents.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

If China had a US-style two-party system:

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

Americans would not last a day in the foreign policy they export to the global south lmao.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Expel the Zionist regime from the UN.

Well done, Malaysia!

[frye @___frye]

you can’t even say you’re moving to canada anymore because they kill depressed people now

[jonny is fed up with Yank Nonsense @sensiblehuman96]

every four years we watch the presidential election of the most evil country in the world, with its two evil parties, and two evil candidates, funded by their evil billionaires, and for some reason are dumbfounded when an evil person wins

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

It’s difficult to consider this a uniquely “dark day” for the world. For over one year, we have seen scenes of children shredded by US-made bombs on our mobile phones. The darkness has been here for awhile.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

I’m seeing people talk about the worldwide trend of countries moving right, and I think that has to be largely understood as the failure of neoliberalism. As liberal parties move right they stop delivering for people and find themselves in political no mans land.

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

“We won’t be able to organize/ protest under Trump”.

People in the Global South have been organizing and protesting under dictatorships that America has installed as puppets. You will be fine.

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

From 2017

[John Wicker Park @phonybone]

I was able to deduce this through the powers of historical materialism