Hey everyone,

I thought you all would be interested in my new play, "NOT PAUL" as it deals with a lot of issues and challenges in modern Academic publishing. The female lead character, Mary, and a supporting female character, Sylvia, are academic editors for Columbia University Press. The show is an absurdist romantic comedy about imperfection and constantly being compared to your partner's ex. If you live in the NYC area or will be visiting, we are debuting JULY 15th (8PM) at the Producers Club in Hell's Kitchen (358 W 44th St). There is a part of the show that delves into the importance of University presses and the attempt of Stanford University to cut their Press back in 2019.

ABOUT THE PLAY:

The play centers around a new couple: Mary and Ethan. Mary is Ivy League-educated and a successful academic publisher, while Ethan is a barista with a theology degree, uncertain of what he wants to do with his life. Their budding romance is complicated when Ethan learns of Mary’s recent ex, Paul, her committed boyfriend of five years. Paul is a perfect man: he was top of his class at Harvard, a gifted singer, a talented actor, delivered speeches to the United Nations about the South Sudan famine, speaks seven languages fluently, and is a sexual god. Even during the action of the play, Paul is saving Ukrainian refugees.

As their relationship progresses, Ethan discovers that all the people in Mary’s life love Paul to the point of obsession. Mary’s elderly next door neighbor Greta was infatuated with Paul. Mary’s college friends and recently married couple, Bryce and Stewart, follow the word of Paul. Mary’s co-worker Sylvia reveals that she is pregnant with Paul’s child and her husband, Perry, couldn’t be more excited. All of them shamelessly compare Ethan to Paul and display open hostility towards him, causing Ethan to snap, as he begins to question himself and his relationship. Either Ethan takes charge of his own life or Paul’s admirers will take matters into their own hands…

WE HAVE SIX PERFORMANCES:

FRIDAY, JULY 15TH - 8PM

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TICKET LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/not-paul-a-play-tickets-339951834087 - Use promo code: PAUL for 10% off tickets. You can also see our posters and more info about the show there.

The show runs about 75-80 minutes. I hope you'll come out and see the show! Thanks everyone!

In your opinion and experience, how common is plagiarism on higher levels of academic investigation?

I'm not an academic. My longtime partner is. She is a very serious researcher, currently doing MSCA postdoctorate, and often goes through great lenghts to not conflict with other people's work.
We are always hearing reports of plagiarism and poeple stealing work subjects from eachother. Some really snaky moves.

Recently someone made a whole presentation in a very prestigious congress on the subject of my partner's 2 thesis and many articles. Which was a subject that was not explored previously.
This person "reaches" many of the same conclusions my partner reached, cites (sometimes) original obscure sources, but fails to cite my partner a single time. She even "reaches" conclusions that my partner discovered to be wrong in the decade of research since she made her Master thesis.
There are many instances of these "coincidences". It's like she is repeating my partner's investigation, citing the same sources, while making the same mistakes, even the silly ones proper of a master degree level of investigation.
This person was passively called out on a previous paper, which failed to cite my partner on several instances. So far as I know, this paper is yet to be published.

I am sharing an article that explains how the visibility of an article influences its discoverability and its citation count. I have mentioned the issues and solutions in bullet points. Please have a look at it.

https://typeset.io/resources/research-visibility-problems-and-how-to-overcome-them/

Hi! I am looking for some guidance. I am a recent bachelors degree grad (December). And I have been working for one of my professors as a research assistant over a year. Last year I got a full time research grant and worked for the summer under her full time. We drew up a whole proposal to receive the grant. And then never touched the project. I worked on various other things with her and we developed a paper together on which I have spent a huge amount of hours. During this time she offered me co authorship on the paper. I also worked with her and one other woman on a separate paper and was offered co authorship again. I will add that I was not just gathering literature. But combing through qualitative data, helping conceptualize the papers direction, doing thematic analysis and writing large sections of the papers.

After my summer position ended she hired me part time to continue doing work which was mainly focused on other projects she was preparing. She offered to pay me hourly for this work.

We have recently picked back up on the other papers. And she has told me that typically you aren’t paid if you get co authorship but that she will pay me 50% for the hours going forward to finish the papers. I work about 50hours a week at a full time clinical position.

I have been willing to do the work for the extra income and with the goal of having publications behind my name. But now I’m feeling mislead and frankly a little screwed over.

Is this normal???

Thanks!

My first manuscript to be published just went online! My research was focused on the publication rates of women in some of the top ABA journals. If you are interested in seeing what this looks like up through the end of 2019, you can find the open access article published here.

Writefull have created an abstract generator that uses AI - you copy paste your paper into it, and it will generate an abstract for you. Pretty nuts! From the examples I've tried it's worked well, even summarising the findings and picking the correct numbers/figures. At the very least this could be used to cross reference your existing abstract and help you come up with new ideas! Read more about it on this blog post.

So I was researching into Visa options for the US and the UK, and as I was looking at my H-index and other similar stuff, I happened upon some articles that are "youtube tutorial level" deep into the matter by other people.

Is it some sort of system abuse? Or it's okay to do so? If yes, how does one do it?
My example are papers like "Object Detection using OpenCV and Python" of 2021 - that's pure tutorial level material, nothing complex, any junior, not to say middle and senior, level person from the industry can go much deeper into the matter at their lunch break.

People have "publish points" for that stuff and I'm guessing that some visa consuls probably can't tell if the person is publishing 101 level material or curing cancer - is it the case?

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Probably should post it to visa-related subreddits, but maybe it's ok here too.

Hello!

I hope I am in the right place. I looked through the r/findareddit directory and you all seem to be the best people to help me out (if you are willing of course)

I have a very hard time as a laymen looking for studies relevant to what I’m trying to search for because of my laymen terminology… I am wondering if there is any sort of tool out there that can translate laymen terminology into scholarly terminology to help me find what I’m looking for!

-Example:

I type in: How temperature effects hydration levels of the skin

Result with a study titled: Temperature dependence of water content of stratum corneum

I type in: Shelf life of retinoids

Result with a study titled: Retinoid stability and degradation kinetics in commercial cosmetic products

I work as an esthetician and service my clients through skincare treatments and home care regimens. As you can imagine there is MASSIVE amounts of misinformation about skincare (especially by skin care companies). I have my advanced license and also my instructor license under my state board and have maxed out my professional training so clinical studies are my best source of information.

Skin care brands cannot be trusted so when I’m being pitched a device or a product I want to be as informed as I can to better service my clients. Even magazines and articles geared toward skin care professionals only sometimes have sources to back up claims and are often anecdotal. It’s so frustrating! It’s just very hard for me to find studies with the terminology I use….

If there was just a laymen translator it would be perfect!!

Thank you all SO much in advance!

Hi I finish my EdD in education in August 2021 including my dissertation. The program I attended was not set up to educate students about how to publish or where to begin. Can anyone point me to a resource? My topic was professional development for early childhood educators.

Hello there. I have a doubt about the average timing in the publication process. A few months ago, I submitted a paper to a Spanish journal of sociology that uses the platform Recyt (based on the OJS/PKP platforms). After reviewing and changing my original paper, the journal agreed to publish it, changing the publication stage to "copyediting". This was in January the 27th. Almost two months have passed, and I have not received anything, not the copyedited paper, nor any notification of any kind.

I was wondering how much time these final stages (the copyediting and the latter production) would last. I've checked different papers from this journal in order to evaluate the difference between date of reception, date of acceptance, and date of publishing, but I did not get anything. Some papers were published roughly a month after they were accepted, and some others were published almost half a year later. This may be explained due to the fact that once the papers are included in a volume, the online first publication date is erased and changed by the publication date of this volume.

So, in short, I don't know if this is normal and I don't have to worry at all, and the only thing for me to do is wait. This is my first accepted submission, so I'm not familiar with the flow of work and timing of journals. I know that timing varies depending on the journal, but I wanted to know if there's an average timing, or something that can solve my doubts, or at least calm my nerves. Thanks.

Hi everyone, Is there a specific website for finding out which journals are calling for papers/submissions?

Can someone please help.

I'm so sorry about this, I know I'm gonna sound horrible, but I really got to ask it cus' it's driving me insane.

tl;dr papers feel a bit basic, derivative, maybe even (I'm so sorry) obvious?? sorry

So I'm at my first year studying sociology and anthropology at uni, so I've been reading a lot of interesting papers as part of the curriculum (and also some for my own curiosity).

I keep stumbling upon a certain theme, I can't help but notice that a lot of the papers I read left me unimpressed by their findings, it can be a wonderful paper that sheds light on an under represented community (to the research world), and I get that it's important, but..

I'm gonna give you two examples and I'm gonna try the best that I can, cos' I'm translating here:

so I was reading this beautiful paper on the Languaculture and linguistic sexuality among young women in prostitution, and it was written with a lot of care and sensitivity, really an awesome paper, but her findings were: the linguistic minimalization indicates a rich inner-world of struggle contradiction, and attempt to rebel against the boxing of these women into a narrow definition, on their use of hyper sexual terms as a way to reclaim their control over what was lost, integrate and process their traumas, a way to ask from their environment and the people around them to help them define sexuality and derived from that a validation of their traumas. (the paper from 2014)

now I've been through some shit of my own, and I constantly analyze everything really, and something like a year ago I came to the same conclusion about my own linguistic patterns and terminology, so I read that paper and I thought, okay, cool but I didn't learn anything new from that, did we really need a whole academic paper to tell us about this sort of basic pattern and function? was it really any news to someone?

second paper was about a case study of segregation within a specific city, and it's whole concept talked about how it asks us to look at segregation not as a reflection of physical (and mental) separation, but as a means to manage and in a way resolve or maybe navigate an ideological tension between the wish of separation policies and the reality of integration of the two (or more) groups. as the social practice available to the excluding group that wants to preserve it's separate identity and the reality of multi-cultural cities and the economic needs of both groups to relay on one another (business wise and such). (the paper is from 2018)

and I read this and my first thought was no shit sherlock, again it's a cool paper and I liked reading it, but it feels so obvious and I even wrote about it just jotting down some thoughts a few years ago.

I know I'm just in my first year so yeah maybe that's why it feels basic, but I just really needed to ask about it cos' I see it a lot.

and again I'm so sorry, I must sound like a complete full of myself douche, and I'm sorry for my translation, I know it's not great (hey if you want to correct me, I'll be happy to learn).

Hey guys. Is this a correct form of APA?

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Hello everyone Im just trying to understand whats is basically SLR I tried to find any example SLR paper just to know how it is written, I couldn’t find any I found some article on how to write it but I need a written SLR to to understand it throughly any help please?

This is the start to what I will expand on later. Just looking for feedback. Let if fly.

The World at Large

Preface

The title of this book is meant to inspire questions. Does the Author mean “The world as a Whole?” perhaps he means that this book addresses that which he thinks most people are missing. The truth is that on a global scale, despite technology and education people from different upbringings are predestined to view the world differently. Whether from different countries or from the same country raised with the influence of differing cultures. No matter what it is that you believe in and abide by morally and ethically you will never fully understand why everyone doesn’t or can’t see things as you do. Therefore that which we call The World is in and of itself only a cosmic orb housing among other living things people. From one area of this orb to another there exists a far larger focus on what makes us all different than that which makes us similar. Imagine for a moment that you are an observer. And for argument’s sake you are afforded the ability to see all that happens during every moment of your observation worldwide all the while uninfluenced by anything even something as simple as perspective. Perspective is something that I will circle back to later but is, as I see things, the single word that defines a lack of global unity. The World as it is is one singular thing that houses infinite perspectives corrupted by ignorance, opportunistic misrepresentation and illegitimate agendas.

Unity

Unity as a hole is more situationally microsocial than the dreamers of this world would like to think. Throughout human history groups of people have been forced to choose or manipulated into choosing a side. The vast majority of these occasions involved physical conflict. Yes….. wars. As onlookers to historical events our education of all the details is skewed by both the records kept and the recounting and teachings of the different sides in any of these wars. Take for instance the scholastic teachings about the Second World War. If you ever get the opportunity as an American/Canadian/Member of the Commonwealth etc/ today to hear what the Soviets are taught in school or vice versa you’d be blown away. So much so that you’ll accuse the teachings of the “otherside” to be false and/or misconstrued.
But if you remove your preconceived established knowledge from what you’ve been told and taught and were somehow able to replace it with that which is believed and taught by the “otherside”. Then you’d see whence it is that they came and that for which they stand. The unfortunate truth is that whatever you heard first is going to win out. Now try to consider the entirety of WW2 from the perspective of the German people. The atrocities committed by the Allies (considered in European, American and Commonwealth Nations as the “Good Guys”) in that war and you find yourself fumbling to justify what was exacted as measures necessary to protect and uphold our way of life and therein freedom. The world I was brought up in supports and reinforces that every measure taken in WW2 by the Allies was in some way shape or form for my presumed benefit. I say presumed because I wasn’t around when it happened. As I have been taught though numerous countries came together or unified against a common enemy. Now, as controversial as it might be I would be remiss were I to not include the Germanic perspective. Even now, some 80 years later I see very little augmentation to the history classes of my day. That said I try, as egotistical as is sounds, to imagine myself as a German child of the same age and era being taught about WW2 in particular. Like any country or people after a conflict of that enormity you are driven by a patriotic duty to show your country’s participation in the best light possible. While I am incapable of direct knowledge of the scholastic curriculum from that time I want to make something very clear. At the beginning of this paragraph I make reference to the Germanic perspective. So it is to that end that I continue. Germany, though somewhat central geographically is not the only Germanic state. German peoples and culture exist and flourish in Austria, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, France (Yes France) and many other places. The very language with which I write these words, English, is considered a Germanic language. Teachings like that were so frowned upon by Allied countries after WW2. That little piece of linguistic historical relevance has fallen off the school curriculum where I was brought up – Canada. In fact we were misled from a very early age that the majority of the English language was derived from Greek or Latin. Never once do I recall a teacher saying “and this word " " is from the German word meaning…….”. Yet somehow people from varying yet direct German lineage were brought together, set aside petty differences and ultimately unified by an enormous patriotic movement. Where at one point they were seeing the diluting and stripping away of there origins now came this beacon of cultural reinforcement and strength. By all accounting in Canadian schools today the German’s of that time are portrayed unilaterally as evil. But any soldier on the front line was fighting for what he/she believed in as they were taught by, they’re teachers, parents and politicians. When you break down that frontline soldiers’ motivations how did they differ from our soldiers? How can two opposing sides both be fighting for what is right?

Economy

Money makes the world turn….I guess!! Certainly, commerce today is what most affects any National centralized economy. The exchange of goods happens globally and if dicks like the US banks are willing to endorse newly manipulated reassigned low grade stocks buy bunching them together and artificially inflating their worth (for example) then that global commerce is, at the very least, exposed. Commerce as a whole is based on trust. A trust that has been twisted and diluted to such a degree that it is barely recognizable anymore. Yet, be that as it may, a country today lives or dies by its ability to produce and sell that which is “home grown”. If the need for that which you have to offer as country declines significantly or loses its value or you fall far shy of expected yields, then people in your country will starve. The truth is that worldwide people starve to death everyday. Statistically speaking if the richest 1% of the world’s population didn’t eat for 2 days then that food, including what they just throw away, would feed all the world’s starving for 8 months. But you need to teach a person to fish right. (Give someone a fish he/she will eat for a day, teach him/her to fish and he/she will eat for life.) This is the view of anyone who thinks that poor, starving peoples are lazy. In my previous section about unity I tried to show how people can be brought together for various reasons. Unfortunately, globally speaking we have yet to find a viable economical reason to unify.

Religion

The very routes of so many of the world’s segregations lay in religious beliefs or faiths. As humans we struggle to offer explanations for that where there is none. Before the advent and regular inclusion of science we would bestow upon our youngest explanations that, because of the consequences of disbelief or acting in contradiction to them, would render them unworthy of the multitude of benefits that would befall them should they agree and conform to lessons of said explanations. Because most people used to be content with conformity rather than suffer the consequences of defiance; someone who overtly questioned or contested the established beliefs and explanations given them was met with varying degrees of severity. Yet so much like or perhaps entangled in the cultural diversity of the world’s people is religion. Each of these religions is based in teachings of solid moral fibre, the endorsement of bettering one’s self, doing good unto others, selfless actions and benevolence. None of the world’s predominant religions say to ridicule, wholly reject, make to suffer or even kill those of a different faith. Yet here we are as weapon wielding idiots creating and even thriving on fighting over which religion is right. Well as I see it we have completely missed the message. Haven’t we? The existence of different religions on a global scale each of which share the same basic core values and principles means that if there is one thing we share it’s our inclination toward goodness. Where religious devotion has failed in the past isn’t in taking up arms against someone of similar beliefs but rather pronounced apathy in the face of obvious evil.

Philosophy

Philosophy as I choose to see it represents a never ending internal battle for predicting, coping with and dwelling on the ethical interpretation, measurement and usage of the knowledge we possess in order to understand truth. Notice I didn’t say to arrive at truth. For the very dynamic of philosophy demands that even if, however arrived at, one finds truth then the next step must be examining that truth. Here in lies my aforementioned emphasis on perspective. Within every perspective lies truth. In fact the truth you seek is an entity that can both motivate and blind you. The truth you base your perspective on is developed at an early age. From day 1 even. As a new born at first nothing you see hear taste smell or touch is real. Not until experiencing one or more of those senses in a similar setting or situation do you have a gauge by which to compare, contrast or even anticipate the outcome. Then you learn that your actions instigate a result that either you like or don’t. Intrinsically you are far more likely to repeat an action or behaviour if it elicits what you consider to be a favourable outcome. By favourable outcome I do not mean that what you do is met with approval from your parents. I mean that if you cry you get your parents attention and your intentions are deciphered by your parents as either you’re uncomfortable or require sustenance. As you become more self aware you begin to recognize your need to better explain what you want and begin to quickly assimilate the communication methods of those around you. Then you begin to talk which is both inevitable and unfortunate. I say this because now your communication method takes over your basic reasoning skills and slowly but surely you begin to rely on words as a means of processing thought. Hence forth the rest of your life’s thinking will be centered around communication which is easily the most debilitating obstruction to learning. As you grow you’re heavily influenced by the actions and reactions of those around you. Though the inherent personality with which you’re born will navigate you through coping with these surrounding interactions ultimately you will begin to take on certain aspects and features of those closest to you. From here you are met with a multitude of environmental factors that begin to solidify who you’re going to be later in life. By age 6 you’ve processed more learning than you will for the rest of your life but everything you experience and are taught from that point is what determines how you view society and your position therein. So if you’re constantly told that western society is a blemish on human existence and that is all you know then your view of the world and what it has to offer is going to be far different than that of a child who is of western society and doesn’t even know or care that you exist. As extreme as that comparison may seem I only use it to make my point. Those 2 children from such different backgrounds are going to have significantly differing perspectives. However, each believes that what they were taught is truth. Now try to imagine all the different cultures, religions and sociological influences that exist throughout the world. How people brought up on the same street can be so different. And you’ll begin to see how truth and fact are not mutually inclusive. No one will ever truly know what it is to walk a mile in another’s shoes but bridging that gap begins with a willingness to try.

Difference coming soon Acceptance coming soon Situational Unity coming soon Politics coming soon

Are there websites where you can pay people to safely/ethically edit your completed literature review?

I just wrote my first literature review (ever) for a M.A. Counseling program and would love to have useful and critical feedback. Although this assignment doesn't have to be a masterpiece, I do want to greatly enhance my writing/analyzation skills for the future. Is there some place, website, subreddits or resource that can provide this type of detailed feedback for my literature review's completed DRAFT?

What are some possible solutions or ideas?

Hey guys, my name is Conor and I'm in my 4th and final year in college in Ireland. I'm studying Marketing and need a minimum of 60 replies as its for my dissertation. It should only take 2-4 minutes! Thanks in advance guys and girls really appreciate it! below is the link..cheers!

https://conorgavin7858.survey.fm/the-effectiveness-of-in-game-advertisements-sponsorships-in-sports-video-games-on-consumers

I'm worried about running into any obstacles when it comes to transferring the copyright to whatever journal. Does anybody have any insight on this issue or used Grammarly in the past under similar circumstances? Thanks!

Here are two links to their website that addresses said issue --

(1) https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003816012-Does-Grammarly-own-everything-I-write-

(2) https://www.grammarly.com/terms#ownership

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Interesting story on robot writers and copyrights:

A Chinese court has ruled that AI-generated writing is protected by copyright.

The winner in the ruling: tech giant Tencent. It sued after an article created by its Dreamwriter robot was republished without permission by a financial info Web site.

The Chinese court decision differs from current legal thinking in the U.S. and Canada. Both countries have so far concluded that robot writers do not enjoy copyright protection, according to Ecns.cn.

In the literature review of my reseach, I used a definition in a research paper that cited it from a different research paper. More specifically, I found it in a paper by Stabler-Havener (2013) who found it in a book by Stiggins (1991). In the references, do I reference Stiggins or Stabler-Havener? For the record, I have not read Stiggins, only Stabler-Havener.

Hi! I am currently an American Undergrad Physics major. I have done theoretical and experimental research before but none of the professors utilized me for their paper. The first was writing on a different project and I was utilized as research for pure interest. 2/3 were in the process with related projects but they were utilizing higher educated students work(My work range was high school to current as a second year).

I was wondering how I can learn more about physics publications. Additionally, is it possible to get peer reviewed individually as an undergrad or is it required to have a Dr. to be working under? It is an avenue that I am interested in exploring and would like to learn how to get started/what my options were.

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated! :)

Hello! I am new to this so I am sure this question is silly. I have submitted an essay to a springer journal around two months ago. After two weeks the status changed to “under review.” It has been under review for almost a month. However, today the status changed back to “reviewers assigned.” I get that the status can change for “UR” back to “RA” If a reviewer dropped out. However, my understanding is that this usually happens after a few days, not a month. Is that what you think happened here?