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Perth - Geneva - Madison - Reading - Melbourne

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@Ponty100mph I was lucky enough to grow up in WA. Saw DK and Thomo , as well as Roberts, Holding at the WACA in 1975. The Aussie pair are legendary, but it was the WI that sent stumps flying. A fierce Andy Roberts in particular. A memory etched on my 8 year old mind.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@Ponty100mph I guess we should feel lucky. Other sports (golf comes to mind) have gone so far along the formulaic path that everyone looks the same. Cricket still has enormous idiosyncrasies in how bowlers roll their arm over. Makes it all the more fascinating. Challenging for a coach though!

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@StrijbosMichiel @simplifyinAI @KolPulseAI Disagree. Many of us think and process things in a visual-spatial way. A good* diagram beats a paragraph of text for many of us.

*good being the operative word. Crap diagrams are as bad as poorly written text.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@Ponty100mph I imagine such studies *have* been done in athletics events such as high jump, for example. There would no doubt be variation due to differing bowling actions, delivery strides etc.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@Ponty100mph Have biomechanic studies been done to determine "optimal" running pace prior to delivery stride? It would be a function of each bowler's physiology, of course. But I would have thought that with modern sports science, such things would have been studied & formalised by now.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@oldmate565 Banter

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@oldmate565 Care to give some examples of when she’s been shown to be wrong?

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@Ponty100mph Len Pascoe was faster than many people remember or records say. But with DK and Thomo around, he’s not recognised for his pace I reckon.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@mbeisen I would use "we" for any research that includes contributions from people who aren't authors, e.g. people who appear in acknowledgements. "I" would therefore mainly be for theoretical/review papers rather than empirical reports in my research.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@chippy_the_guv @SaintJackington It’s a bowling attack that operates as a team within a team. Every ball they bowl is part of a coordinated plan that includes all of them. They each have a role to play and they execute with diligent brilliance.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@PossiblyGwen @phoss2501 @versiioncontrol I can’t imagine doing a PhD reference list by hand - 100s of references, would drive me nuts. Another way the reference list can be created is via a menu in the Zotero app itself from a collection of articles selected directly in Zotero, to paste in as text.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@PossiblyGwen @phoss2501 @versiioncontrol Interesting. I wonder if the part of the code that handles the specific reference format you were using was at fault.

The other thing I can think of is that Zotero allows references & citations to use one of two different underlying Word features, so perhaps it’s a Word problem.

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@PossiblyGwen @phoss2501 @versiioncontrol Typos in the reference list are caused by references that are stored wrongly in the database. Either they were entered wrongly or scraped from sources wrongly. That’s not unique to Zotero.

Out of interest, what did you end up using or what do you use now?

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@phoss2501 @versiioncontrol Most dissertations don’t have equations. Using reference manager software & plugins for Word like Zotero is easy.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The intellectual and societal cost of our collective obsession with publication count over impact is staggering. Curiosity is replaced by mass production, so much so that researchers are overwhelmed with the volume of published papers, described as the “strain on scientific publishing.”

If higher education wants to reverse course, institutions must confront the incentive structures that created this crisis. Three steps would meaningfully shift the culture:

Evaluate fewer papers, but more deeply. Promotion committees should assess a candidate’s top three to five publications, forcing reviewers to read the work rather than count papers and citations.

Broaden what counts as impact—especially teaching and research support. Institutions should formally weigh executive education leadership, research-teaching integration, creation of new or specialized courses, high-impact curricula, the ability to reach and shape large numbers of students, and the securing of grants or philanthropic gifts that enable consequential research alongside traditional research metrics.

Audit citation practices. Universities should monitor for citation cartels, editor self-citing and anomalous patterns increasingly penalized by indexing services.

https://t.co/d5WdQmAeCS

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@spenderallegra Yep. This was entirely foreseeable. State revenues need to be stable, and so should not be coupled to property values. https://t.co/UHgHMk7jRD

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

Any revised system of stamp duty or land tax must *decouple government revenue from property value*. If it does not, governments will remain enslaved to policy that raises property prices, killing any chance of affordability. #stampDuty #LandTax #auspol

[Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals]

An article in @insidehighered argues that universities may be helping to create the research integrity problems they are trying to solve.

The argument is simple: if we judge academic success largely by publication counts, journal prestige and citations, we should not be surprised when people find ways to maximise those numbers.

That can mean salami-slicing research, citation gaming, purchased authorship, paper mills and, increasingly, AI-assisted fraud.

The authors suggest a different approach: assess fewer papers, but assess them properly; broaden our definition of impact; and pay much closer attention to suspicious citation practices.

Perhaps the bigger question is this:

Are research integrity problems really just problems with individual researchers, or are they also a predictable consequence of the systems universities have created to measure academic success?

Read the full articlle here: https://t.co/vxZ61FsnYn

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

@BenPhillips_ANU Just said the same. Why?

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

I know it’s a work day, but why is the crowd, if you could even call it that, so small for the SA vs Australia test?

[Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK @itjohnstone]

I know it’s a work day, but why is the crowd, if you could even call it that, so small for the SA vs Australia test?