Ronn Concepcion

Associate Professor @DLSUManila | #Biosystems #PlantPhysiology #AIinAgriculture #PlantPhenotyping #AgTech #Bioenergy #SustainableAg #AgriInformatics

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

Join the IEEE 2nd AGRETA 2024! https://t.co/Y86Dl0JMg1

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

We are inviting you to submit your original works to the AgriEngineering Special Issue titled "Complex Interactions of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leaning and Plant Science in #space #food #production ".
@MDPIOpenAccess @AgriEng_Mdpi
https://t.co/TgVPOPNx7R

[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

[Journal of Environmental Quality @JEnvironQual]

#WaterWednesday Challenges in linking soil health to edge-of-field water quality across the Great Lakes basin - #OpenAccess study by Fermanich & colleagues https://t.co/rjSXTYkSuR #soilhealth @USGS @uwgb @PurdueAg @PurdueAgronomy

[Urban Systems Lab @USL_NYC]

🎉 New open access book, Nature-based Solutions for Cities, is now available from @ElgarPublishing, edited by @timonmcphearson @NadjaKabisch @NFrantzeskaki. Explore the state of the art in advancing NBS for cities across the world 👉 https://t.co/pgPdbQuC7X

[Bolei Deng 邓博磊 @Bolei_Deng]

🤔 Ever tried to draft a design, only to realize you've drawn something Picasso might reject? Fear not! Our new paper (https://t.co/dbUoM3UL6k) is here. Spoiler: It's like having Da Vinci & Ford in your pocket! 🎨🛠️

[Crop Protection Network @CropNetwork]

Pathogen + susceptible host + the right environment are all required for crop disease to develop.

Remember the disease triangle when making fungicide decisions. And don't forget resistance development!

Ask local Extension for more info.

@alabamaED @tjcksn @UMNExt @NDSUcerealpath @travisfaske @UDPlantPath @DTelenko @dsmuelle @alisonrISU @KSUCropdiseases @cropdoc08 @cropdisease @MartinChilvers1 @baldpathologist @MandyBish1 @ccecornell @fieldcrops_org @OSU_HortCropSci @MahDuffeck @AlbertTenuta @PACropDoc @maddishires @TNplantDR @badgercropdoc @IanMSmall1 @ILextension @UGAExtension @CropAndSoil @NCStatesoybeans @TakeActionWeeds @NationalCorn #fungicides #tarspot #agtwitter #farming @soydisease @ohiomycete @ppp_trey

[Qonversations @theQonversation]

#Philippines #ClimateAction #technology #news
Philippines’ climate-smart rice varieties: A potential game-changer for climate change and agriculture. Read more: https://t.co/0H6RTz8tp7

[FAO Land, Soil and Water @FAOLandWater]

What is soil fertility & how is it important?

Healthy soils sustain life. 🌿🌦️

But soil degradation leads to, among other things, the loss of #soil fertility constituting a risk to #FoodSecurity #Soils4Nutrition

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

I have been looking all day for a very specific picture of my cultivation setup during my PhD and ended up scrolling the 568 pages of my dissertation. 😅

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

@GrefGrefory @cellwall2023 @hazenlab Hi @GrefGrefory! Do you have a corresponding paper publication for this research poster?

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

Our recent work entitled "Genetic Termite Colony-Optimized Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Concentration for Glycophyte Plant Resilience to Saline Environment" is now published in IEEE Xplore (check it here: https://t.co/ZmtwyHBagz). #dlsu #fungi #evolutionarycomputing #glycophyte

[Olivier Borkowski @O_Borkowski]

Miniaturized bioluminescent whole-cell sensor systems
https://t.co/jSkLhOLwdo

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

Early morning grind in the laboratory, for the first day of this week! Measuring root traits.
#rootphenotyping #maize

[Fabian F. Voigt @voigtvision]

From macro- to microcosm: A feature on the 🔭telescope & 🐚scallop- inspired #schmidtobjective #Microscope 🔬objective in @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience by @Sara_Reardon! #Microscopy
https://t.co/I1kgGb9e0S

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

Some of the dye-sensitized solar cells I made during my PhD two years ago, still functioning despite the fast evaporation rate of iodide/triiodide electrolyte. Had a great time mixing chlorophyll and anthocyanin pigments as photosensitizer though :)

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

@DanPBeverly Thanks!

[Ronn Concepcion @ronn_concepcion]

@CornellAgriTech May I know what holds the seedling in an upright position in the first image? I noticed the hole is thicker than the plant stem. Probably there is a mantle of plastic or tape above the white plastic but I am not sure what it is. Thank you in advance!

[Cornell AgriTech @CornellAgriTech]

Postdocs do some amazing things on our campus, including develop new technologies to help growers in the field. Daniel Winter Heck's newest mobile aims to help growers improve disease and pest management practices while saving time, effort and resources. https://t.co/JyjbIDDzuD