Nature paper! I AM NOW A BIG DEAL. - by Vivian
Sulphur on 25/4/2013 at 06:51
And he looks like Roz Sam Neill, too!
Okay, maybe not. And that's a good thing. Congratulations, man! :thumb:
faetal on 25/4/2013 at 08:00
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
Congrats. But it's not like you or your Team had to buy yourselves in? One hears crazy stuff about publishing in these prestigious magazines nowadays. Fucked up peer reviews and all that...
Edit: Jena? That's not too far away from Leipzig where I am currently...
You have to pay for printing, but I've not heard of people paying to get the publication accepted. Some of the higher end journals can have prohibitively expensive printing costs for smaller groups, particularly if using colour images, but a Nature paper is more than worth it.
Beleg Cúthalion on 25/4/2013 at 08:21
Maybe I heard about these dubious circumstances within Mathematics, but IIRC it extended to other fields of science, too; far less, though, with the humanities. Well, I'm in good spirits that my first article in a journal in my field will be published without problems, too.
faetal on 25/4/2013 at 09:12
Cool videos.
What's quite interesting for me is how after developing the crouch posture in response to forelimb elongation, you get the divergence of flightless birds with minuscule forelimbs and centre of gravity which is great for running. Evolution is great.
Do you expect much more exposure out of this? This very much seems like the kind of finding that will permeate through New Scientist, Scientific American etc.. and probably get a mention on some Discovery channel type stuff (much like the Reuters piece). Obviously the Nature paper is more or less as good as it gets academia-wise, but I can't imagine how cool it would be to reach the popular science audience. Unless people suddenly start finding contact dermatitis really fascinating, I don't suppose I'll ever know either :P
Vivian on 25/4/2013 at 09:40
Yeah... everyone loves dinosaurs. It is unfair, I know.
Vae on 25/4/2013 at 09:41
Good work, Vivian...I always knew you had a brain...;)
What's interesting, is that you're a much more elegant speaker than you are a writer...I like the way you speak.
I'm sure you're quite elated and celebratory at the moment, as well you should be.
All the best to you and your great success,
~Vae
faetal on 25/4/2013 at 09:57
Quote Posted by Vivian
Yeah... everyone loves dinosaurs. It is unfair, I know.
Nah, I don't see it like that. What you do is just generally more interesting.
If I hadn't done my degree and someone started summarising what I'm doing versus what you're doing, I'd be way more interested in your stuff.
What you've found out has deep implications for the history of life on earth - it's a part of THE big puzzle.
What I'm doing may help to stop quite so many people getting a nasty rash from deodorants & skin creams (though I do hope to move into drug allergy after I'm done). I love what I do and find it really interesting once you get into the details, but that's just because it's my research focus. I grew up reading about dinosaurs, not immunotoxicology.
I'd need to be pretty conceited to think that fair has anything to do with the distinction.
Muzman on 25/4/2013 at 10:25
Quote Posted by faetal
You have to pay for printing, but I've not heard of people paying to get the publication accepted.
Oh boy, the shit is rife. Pretty much every woo you can think of has been published in a journal with a proper sounding name, who claims to be peer reviewed but is essentially a rubber stamp. Acupuncture, Homeopathy, all the major "climate change skeptic" papers you've heard about recently, the 9/11 truther nanothermite guys were published, pretty sure Wakefield has had a few since the initial blow up.
There were some guys who ran a scam recently by setting up a fake website for a real journal and demanding publication fees. The real journal in this case didn't charge, but the concept isn't foreign to people.
There were a couple of the big names that were going to charge I think, but they backed off because it would immediately put them in the company of the fringey crowd.
