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Overview of Tudor_Queen

Signup date: 18 Nov 2015 at 11:56am

Last login: 27 Aug 2023 at 5:19pm

Post count: 2097

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Looking for a paper

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

No, not scrutinise. But you'd think they could easily flag up visits to well known sites movie streaming sites and map them onto usernames. I guess they just aren't bothered or they'd have blocked 'em anyway.

Overseas lab visit

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Thanks Mr Fox. I just felt a bit daunted suddenly. I want to go to the lab cos I love the work that is done there - that is basically it! But I will elaborate on my application and jazz it up a bit.

Sci Hub - All academic papers freely available online. Thoughts?

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Quote From helebon:
There is Access to Research available at many public libraries in the UK. This is a free service for the general public to access papers.

But I doubt that allows you to access many (comparative to the number of papers out there). For instance, someone on this forum recently requested a paper, and I think several of us tried through our university (which pays for hundreds of journal subscriptions), and yet none of us could access it. And I very much double it would have been accessible in a public library either. Then hey presto, you go on that site and it is there in a single click!

Looking for a paper

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

I stream whole movies at uni and haven't been caught yet! But... there is certainly a risk! Private PCs for this sorta thing I think!

Looking for a paper

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Is it the dark web?! I've heard of that but no clue what it is! Just noticed there was not hppt://!

Looking for a paper

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Can we get into trouble? D:

Sci Hub - All academic papers freely available online. Thoughts?

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Crikey! My one insignificant paper is on there!

US VISA (scholar or student intern)

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

I've just re-read your post Tree of Life. You reckon more than a month is more worthwhile for a lab visit to the States?

Overseas lab visit

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Thank you for the helpful (as always) response. I am applying for a grant but it will be toward the end of my PhD (if it all goes through) so I will have to say it'll be useful experience for my future / postdoc activities. The grant doesn't specify that it needs to be directly relevant to current work - says it can be for future research - so hopefully it'll be accepted.

US VISA (scholar or student intern)

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Awesome - thanks SO much everyone. Thanks for the detail ToL - I was part way through ascertaining this information by trawling through horribly designed websites, but hadn't encountered the idea of/thought about going as a tourist. Cheers!

US VISA (scholar or student intern)

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Hello

Does anyone know how long on average it takes to get a visa to travel to the US from the UK? Not to study for a whole semester but just to visit a lab for a month. I am really struggling to find this info online and thought someone here may have done it and so may know how long it takes/how easy or difficult it is to obtain.

Cheers
Tudor

Overseas lab visit

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Hello all

Has anyone here done an overseas lab visit (or one in your own country perhaps)?

I know I want to visit a certain lab because I love the work that is done there and think it will help my career prospects. But beyond that - what specific things should I be aiming for on a lab visit? I am still in the early stages of contacting the lab etc. But I think I am going to need to say more than I love your work... What can I get out of it? Or should I be thinking what can offer them?

How does this lab visit stuff work?

Thanks
Tudor

Looking for a paper

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Tried but not joy ) :

ICYMI: The Case for Colonialism

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

Quote From Trilla:
The truth is that academic publishing is a crooked business.

Taylor and Francis (informa.com, a multinational) does not pay editors (but gives a generous 'expense accounts' which is, de facto, a wage (in my case about £5,000 per printed issue) but then asks for more and more administrative hoops and loops to jumps through, so the job attracts either:
* people like me who are, for whatever reason, in between stages of their career (I am finishing my PhD after years in publishing and this is a good way for me to be active in the field, earn some money and do something worthwhile) or
* very established scholars (who have little time) who enjoy a little more money on top of their wages and are happy to provide a service to the field.

Unfortunately because the administrative and technical onus of editing now is increasing so much, and there is less and less money in academia, I am concerned that journal editing is now attracting people who aren't competent in either, 'you pay peanuts, you get monkeys' - and these mistakes happen. T&F should employ scholars as professional editors and pay them a good wage - these mistakes (oversights? overstressed? overworked? or just incompetent?) would not happen, or happen less.

Thanks for the insight! I wondered why impact factors seem quite precarious in my field in recent years... maybe it is because of this!

ICYMI: The Case for Colonialism

Tudor_Queen 2097 posts
7 years ago

I see! ! !

Quote From Nad75:
Goodness, that resignation was fast! I feel sorry for the articles that are in the pipeline for publishing, quite a clog with the resignation.

Well to be honest, I'd want to publish my paper elsewhere if I had submitted it there - so I'd retract my manuscript mid review process if that were possible!