Robert Campbell

retired academic, writer, lifelong learner, data science dabbler 🇨🇦

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

The first six novellas in my Kaifeng Chronicles series. #China #histfic #Amazon

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Intentions don't matter. Actions do. That's why being ethical is hard."

@naval

[Dr. Deb Lindh, EdD, RYT @DebraLindh]

We are all just children walking around in adult bodies wanting to be heard, seen, accepted, and loved.

[Ruben Dario Palacio, Ph.D. @rdpalacio]

2. B!SON - The Open-Access Journal Recommender

This tool compares the similarity of your paper to those available in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

It might find some cool journals to place your research you might not even heard about.

[Ruben Dario Palacio, Ph.D. @rdpalacio]

1. JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator)
https://t.co/4KRbw27dV0

Just copy the abstract of your paper and JANE will suggest some journals that publish similar research to yours.

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

@hfchitchat Finish book seven of my nine part Kaifeng Chronicles series.
Maybe even make a good start on book eight.

[Tom Peters @tom_peters]

I’ve decided that I don’t like “people first.” People aren’t “first on the list.” People ARE the organization. People are not “organizational assets” or “human resources.” People ARE the organization.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Religion isnt so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission -UNESCO @IocUnesco]

[Publication]

Before going into the new year, catch up on the state of the #ocean in 2022.

Discover key numbers, challenges and opportunities for our ocean in the State of the Ocean Report 2022 👉 https://t.co/uw3K922J6B

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Phrase of the day: Anachronistic Sanctimony;
accusing ancient individuals or groups of violating today's ethical norms; more generally flowing values, beliefs, and standards backward in time.

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

@ThatEricAlper September

[Jon Miltimore @miltimore79]

Fact: socialism has killed a lot more people than climate change.

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

#fridayreads Working my way slowly through Papyrus by @irenevalmore. Too good to rush through. #book #History

[Topi Tjukanov @tjukanov]

#30DayMapChallenge 2022 map collections and most-liked tweets have been updated to the homepage. Go admire 🎉
https://t.co/HAFKS3ofMZ

8446 maps were posted to Twitter alone! Thank you!

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

Can you ever have enough ramekins? #Cooking #food

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Resistentialism is the belief that inanimate objects are out to get you: tables and shop displays bumping into you; toast landing butter-side down; sellotape hiding its end/sticking to anything other than what’s needed.

[Data Science Fact @DataSciFact]

Apophenia: The tendency to see patterns in random data.

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

Retiring from #academia means no longer being concerned with citation counts and other dubious metrics that are a poor measure of a faculty member’s actual value.

[Robert Campbell @profrac]

Retiring from #academia means no longer having to attend a multitude of ill-conceived hence unproductive meetings.

[Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith @LNivisonSmith]

Imagine how many problems we could solve in academia if we stopped trying to be better versions of each other and focused on being better versions of ourselves