Alec Yates 🇯🇪

Post-doc @ ULB 🇧🇪, working on volcano/geothermal monitoring using seismic noise🌋. Previously in Aus 🇭🇲 & NZ 🇳🇿, ISTerre 🇫🇷, Jersey-born 🇯🇪.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

🚨🚨 Hot off the press, 1st first-author paper of PhD where I use of hierarchical clustering to assess similarity in cross-correlation functions at two volcanoes (https://t.co/SNGcJkfmfq).

Have included a Jupyter notebook if you'd like to test yourself (end of thread) (1/9)

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@RYeomansWrites @PhDForum Congraaats ! Another member of the 2020 covid gtm crew past the finish line 🙂

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@SMWuu Congrats to the team, its nice work ! I was wondering if there are plans to process the cross-component ACs to confirm sensitivity differences ie. Vp versus Vs?

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs.

And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM.

A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates.

It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors!

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Main outcomes:

1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously.

2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers.

3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely!
MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days.

4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing.

5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates.

6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers.

Conclusions and my opinion:

- Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average).

- The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised.

- Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today).

- There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics.

- Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards.

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Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle.

However, research quality is controlled by the community.

This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@DavidEDempsey @Kleisthenes2 Was thinking this. My attendence during my first degree was really low for my maths major. Different time, wasnt as studious, but generally i found it hard to follow mathematical descriptions in lectures compared to going at my own pace, trying to clearly understand each step.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@faridanyada I was scrolling and was like 'hey, I know this person !' 😄. Congratsss 🙂

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

Got 3 invite codes for bluesky if anyone wants them

[Sin-Mei Wu @SMWuu]

📢Interested in studying volcanoes and geothermal systems while living in Hawaii? 🌴🌊 We have graduate student opportunities starting in fall 2024 at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa! Please distribute!

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

i'm in, thanks folks

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

Any invite codes for bluesky going around ? 😅

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

Lac du Bourget, 10min cycle from ISTerre Chambéry lab.

Not a bad spot to take a break from thesis writing 😎.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

sigh...

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

Finishing off a course on research ethics, and this is one of the final parts.

Surely the 11% clicking 'Yes' for that second question need to redo the course? 😄

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

There's something fun about exploring unexpected topics in an attempt to explain observations.

Learning far more about snow than i had imagined when i started my PhD! 🌨️

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@seismo_tick turns out my bank card was temporarily blocked after the first transaction earlier in the day, but submitted in the end.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

Anyone else having issues with #AGU23 abstract submission? Getting an error processing payment.

Worked fine earlier today for another abstract with the same card.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@Orocline @theAGU same here, using the same card that worked earlier today submitting another abstract.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

This mornings emails revealed I achieved the milestone of being asked to review an article plus also had my hierarchical clustering paper cited by an article in dentistry (i'll take it😄).

Nice start to the day 🙂

[Bristol Volcanology Group @UoBristolVolc]

Applications close NEXT WEEK for our MSc in Volcanology programme - July 31st for international applicants, August 4th for Home/UK applicants.
Details within this thread and please share within your networks: https://t.co/TacoqKCf0v @UoBEarthScience @BristolUni @IAVCEI_official

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@RobertCMahon @theAGU Literally spent the last 15 minutes looking for a word count, with about 30 open tabs since it insists on opening a new one for every link.

Not in submission resources link, submission FAQs, submission support. Links to 'how to write AGU abstract' without a count. Bonkers.

[Alec Yates 🇯🇪 @asyates2]

@martijnende Almost certainly in my case, and also non-trivial questions too i get okay answers with chatGPT4 (might just take some back and forth).

The ability to create solutions based on my own base code, and ask questions about solutions in real-time, has been a big time-saver.