Robin A. Chang | @[email protected]

she / her | (urban) process designs | Temporality research | spatial DJ in training | 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪 | opinions and thoughts are my own | @[email protected]

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

Start of #summer #holidays for me. #Forest #fire welcome to western CA and US. The #ClimateCrisis challenges are real. I'm lucky that most of my friends and family are okay.

[Franziska Sielker [email protected] @FSielker]

JOB Alert! Come and work with me @tu_wien @srf_vienna! We are looking to complement our team in the field of 🇪🇺European policies & development (potential focus could be e.g. economic geography, infrastructure dev., regional dev.). 4 years PhD Position⌨️!📊🌍❓Write 2me📬 AdLink:

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

Am sad to miss this. But you don't have to be me. Check out the #PLATIAL23 programme.

[PLATIAL'X @PLATIAL_X]

The #PLATIAL23 programme is now near finalised! You can look forward to super interesting sessions on platial narratives, place and planning, place and movement, place concepts/representations + 2 keynotes + 2 workshops + excursions + symposium dinner!

https://t.co/KvLYcqSicV

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

June 28th: a wonderful Rotterdamer place went up in flames. During my PhD on #temporaryuse, I had the privilege to get to know the ppl behind Keilewerf fostering sustainable & socially relevant work & living. Consider supporting their rebuilding process: https://t.co/g4haWXNTqA

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

Indeed, this could be an all time low for compassion...

[Irit Katz @irit_katz]

This dark invention of a floating concentration camp is an appalling disgrace. Shame on you UK government. Architects - and all spatial scholars – should flag it as one of the most horrid examples of refugee architecture worldwide
https://t.co/QprN9OJ6BH

[Remco Vermeulen @RmcVermeulen]

ICYMI: Check out these five recorded webinars, part of the @Museumhetschip exhibition 'Indonesia and the Amsterdam School', supported by @hastitarekat @dok_arsitektur and Yayasan Museum Arsitektur Indonesia 🇮🇩🇳🇱 Direct link to the recordings👉https://t.co/pP2EbdDMd4

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

Original text here... Sorry for the tweet confusion!

#RSA23 Wrap up:
Active #futuring methods such as #FutureSynthesizer from @Pt_RWTH of @RWTH are needed in regional and urban transitions. 🙏Audience members of #SS47 for showing this!

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

3. #Ljubljana is a beautiful city with a rich cultural and natural history. I also should SUP more. Definitely coming back!

🙏 To the local organizers and @regstud for the fantastic event and location for #rsa

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

5. I spend too(?) much time focusing on what is on land or above ground. The Postojna cave network is a jaw-dropping reminder about the wonders of the natural world. Humans should not be so egotistical and centre all development around them.

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

4. We can all be better leaders and followers. #empathetic & #post-heroic #leadership are qualities we should seek to learn and seek out others from whom we can learn. Thanks to @regstud @CChlebna @FSielker for organizing this special session for the women's network.

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

What a great reminder of the #resilience demanded from researchers in the face of #rejection. Early-career researchers take note and do not forget.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Rejection of your paper or grant has NO relevance to the opinion of #research community. It is nothing but the opinion of one person.

Several examples:

1. The first paper on graphene was rejected from Nature because “it did not constitute a sufficient scientific advance”. Later, it was awarded a Nobel prize.

2. The first manuscript showing the microbiome-brain connection was published after 7 submissions that took 3 years. Today, this field has exploded. I expect it will get a Nobel prize in the future.

3. Theodore Maiman tried to publish a paper describing the first operating laser in Physical Review Letters and… got a rejection!

4. Peter Ratcliffe, who worked on cells’ response to changes in oxygen levels, got his key paper rejected from Nature (see photo). Later, he was awarded a Nobel Prize for this work.

And there are many other examples…
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And yet I see so many young scientists stressing about rejections. For some reason, they seem to genuinely expect that the editors should know which study is truly worth it.

As a result, many rejections are met with surprise and disbelief: 
“How could they reject it? They publish so much trash, and yet they think our detailed 3-year-long study is not interesting to the community! WHY?”
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Well, the reality is:

- Most editors have very little time to delve into your study. They can easily FAIL to recognize the potential impact of your study. Proper communication in the cover letter and clear writing style can help (although only to a limited degree).

- Many reviewers have little idea about the science in your paper. But they can have a big ego. So, if they have a bad day or were rejected recently, it’s easy for them to find 1000 technical reasons to reject your paper as well.

- Most scientists genuinely don’t know if your discovery can make any impact. If we could predict the course of science, we would be living very differently!

My message is simple:

Forget about objectivity. Academia is a very subjective world. Fight for objectivity but don’t take it for granted.

A great study will be found, cited and recognized. Disregard of where it’s published.

A bad study requires a high-impact journal to be found and cited. But the long-time recognition might be a problem.

High-IF journals are simply billboards. Their rejections do NOT represent the opinion of a scientific community.

You can get rejected but don’t reject yourself!
Believe in your results.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Geology Tweets @GeologyTime]

You never know what you're going to get when you crack open a geode-like rock called an agate, but a new specimen is even more surprising than usual: It looks just like Cookie Monster.

https://t.co/rAaa9Byo6M

[DER SPIEGEL @derspiegel]

Tausende Menschen müssen ihre Häuser verlassen, Hunderte Gebäude sind zerstört oder beschädigt: In der kanadischen Provinz Nova Scotia sind mehrere Waldbrände außer Kontrolle geraten. https://t.co/AuCdsDM0v5

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

I can't believe I missed this AI update back in January when it came out:

We asked Google’s new AI music bot to write us a song. We instantly regretted it

https://t.co/BrpH5CL1Te

[Planning Theory & Urban Development @Pt_RWTH]

In diesem Film seht ihr, wie wir gemeinsam die Idee der tu! entwickelt haben.
Projektwoche tu! Hambach: Ideen statt Bagger

https://t.co/JTZkA8YIG3

[Planning Theory & Urban Development @Pt_RWTH]

Wie können die Tagebaudörfer im Rheinischen Revier zum Leben zurückkehren? Jetzt anmelden zur Temporären Universität Hambach (tu! Hambach) Projektwoche in Morschenich-Alt im Juni!

Programm und Anmeldung:

https://t.co/65CWYMuBOE

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

#TransformationinsteadofDemolition. Colleagues from @Pt_RWTH of @RWTH will be in Morschenich-Alt from 17-24 June to build capacity for the post-coal exit strategy change in the Rhenish region. Details on tu! Hambach-Events here: https://t.co/JHhcWmOPip and https://t.co/20UGA3Rk0m

[Robin A. Chang | @[email protected] @RobinAChang]

@political_urban Nice! I look forward to checking the website out. And maybe a future contribution?