Paul Whaley 👍

Open science and systematic review pest. Editor-in-Chief at @EBTJournal. Not posting on X anymore, on LinkedIn instead.

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

And here it is, our first accepted manuscript at Evidence-Based Toxicology, a new open-science journal for environmental health research.

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Big News: We have accepted our first manuscript at EBT - a protocol for the development of INVITES-IN, a tool for assessing the internal validity of in vitro studies. Accepted preprint here: https://t.co/j8eDXDUZrh and reviewer assessment reports are here https://t.co/j8eDXDUZrh

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

@aemonten There are ways of making PRC compatible with Clarivate's current requirements for JIF (and I'm not sure why eLife are being so stubborn about it). Of course, Clarivate could be a bit more bloody flexible as well, so I dare say a solution will be found.

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

@aemonten Merits of this decision to one side, what I want to know is, who made Clarivate King of the Journals?

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@JamesSteeleII Sigh

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

@JamesSteeleII That's very confusing. My journal requires submitting authors to have a "registered" preprint of a manuscript so there is a permanent public record of the manuscript they sent to use for evaluation - but that's not what is happening here, is it?

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@dieworkwear For better or worse, this is a fabric and colour combo which attempts to follow @dieworkwear advice off the peg and on a tight budget. You are correct that the shirt does not fit very well and I struggle with tying a tie. :))))

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

@dieworkwear For anyone interested, these paint folks have a nice explainer for colour theory. Fabric obviously has texture which complicates things a bit, but the principle holds. https://t.co/ArCJcr8qXo

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@Venice_Wes @Nature Er it's in Nature?

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

@RodWhiteley @jamesheathers Unless you are doing alphanumeric ordering for dates in which case obviously YYYY-MM-DD is the one true religion. You can send me my gifts and cards on 2024-11-14. (I will allow underscores.)

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@RodWhiteley @jamesheathers Also that is my 44th birthday and I will be expecting presents.

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@albertobaccini @PredatoryReport Exactly. I am a director of a non-profit company and we are required to hold assets that would allow us to continue as a going concern during downturns in business. If our expenditure was around the 30 million mark (I wish!) we would want to retain 10-20% of that.

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@PredatoryReport @aemonten I'm not defending any particular pricing model, but we need to recognise there is a lot more in scientific publishing than posting a PDF online. If you are working with Western employees and editors, and paying people, I'd estimate that a 3.5k-4k APC might just break even.

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@jamesheathers @MicrobiomDigest hey man, sometimes you don't get the answers you want you get the answers you need

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@annemscheel It's not how bad stats ed was, it is about performative academia now, is it not? This is not the most egregious analysis Haidt has performed by any stretch, and we can throw Peterson and a bunch of others in this pile.

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@lakens @NoahHaber I'm going to be dining out on this for the next ten years. 😊

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

Editor-in-Chief highlight of the week? Peer-review report for a protocol for testing automated data extraction tools. Really constructive, esp. on planned analysis methods - so often missing from protocols, and so easy to miss the missing as a reviewer. https://t.co/oGFRnX1Oq5

[Paul Whaley 👍 @paul_msg]

EBT is participating in what is probably the first-ever randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve peer-review. It is... complicated, because it turns out running controlled trials in journals is just unbelievably difficult to do, but Noah has us covered.🤘

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@JamesSteeleII Damn, I definitely *would* but it's September 202*4* and I am already in three places. 😭

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This is very cool, and I can't believe I get to be involved in Noah flourishing. (Did I get that right?)

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@aemonten This is why Gates Foundation is setting up its own preprint server, is it not?