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  1. Single-blind #PeerReview strikes again. Reviewer revealing himself to the coauthors of a paper 1 week after submission threatening to reject it, unless he becomes a coauthor.

    Now they are negotiating a deal to avoid having to redo everything.

    Wondering also, why a method-focussed paper (new approach) submitted to a journal dedicated to molecular #phylogeny is reviewed by somebody who knows the organism but has very little experience in (phylo)genetics

    Have to love single blind.
    #FightTheFog

  2. So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."

    morphobank.org/myprojects/3917

    Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)

    Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.

    #paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science

  3. For a change, a proper #milestone. 1000 reads on RG for the #Reticulate origin of modern plane trees (#Platanus, Platanaceae): A nuclear marker puzzle

    researchgate.net/profile/Guido

    It's profoundly comforting to see that one's work is still raising interest after more than a decade, especially, something that at the time of publication was harshly attacked by "expert #reviewers" –anonymously of course (#FightTheFog). And ignored by the botanical High Priests beyond the Big Pond 😎😎😎

  4. Pretty content with myself, today.

    I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

    You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

    #FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

  5. #FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

    Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

    Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

    Related 2017 post:
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2
    #OldPosts

  6. #FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

    Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

    Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

    Related 2017 post:
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2
    #OldPosts

  7. #FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

    Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

    Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

    Related 2017 post:
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2
    #OldPosts

  8. #FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

    Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

    Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

    Related 2017 post:
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2
    #OldPosts

  9. #FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

    Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

    Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

    Related 2017 post:
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2
    #OldPosts

  10. #Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
    Geiger climate classification system" doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

    That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

    Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
    Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

    #palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

  11. #Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
    Geiger climate classification system" doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

    That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

    Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
    Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

    #palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

  12. #Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
    Geiger climate classification system" doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

    That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

    Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
    Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

    #palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

  13. #Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
    Geiger climate classification system" doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

    That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

    Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
    Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

    #palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

  14. #Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
    Geiger climate classification system" doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

    That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

    Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
    Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

    #palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

  15. #FightTheFog-Update to ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/11010

    Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

    Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

    PS #OldPosts
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

  16. #FightTheFog-Update to ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/11010

    Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

    Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

    PS #OldPosts
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

  17. #FightTheFog-Update to ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/11010

    Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

    Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

    PS #OldPosts
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

  18. #FightTheFog-Update to ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/11010

    Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

    Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

    PS #OldPosts
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

  19. #FightTheFog-Update to ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/11010

    Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

    Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

    PS #OldPosts
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

  20. Couldn't help a quick #CommentTo Klak et al. (2020; doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.459) regarding the notion of "confirm[ing] some previously published facts, e.g. that D. zygophylloides is sister to Drosanthemum", which we identified as likely ingroup-outgroup long-branching artefact.

    Previously published facts a.k.a. branching artefacts
    researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2

    #NewPosts #Taxonomy #FightTheFog

  21. I pondered organisation, so my followers can make the best of Mastodon's filter option (settings -> filters).

    I'll hash my posts as follows
    #NewPosts—for new #blogposts on Res.I.P. and others I follow.
    #OldPosts—for historical ones
    #PhyloNetworks—anything #phylogenetics-ish beyond mere tree-inference
    #FightTheFog—anything shrouding science (like confidential #PeerReview)
    #CommentTo—post-reviews
    #NotScience—for the irrelevant rest