#Authors

something i notice a lot in fiction (not just fanfic) is that occasionally the author doesn’t know how to handle describing the pov character, which is one of the easiest
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Right now the music world (specifically rap/hip hop) is erupting as @kanyewest tweetstorms about the importance of music ownership for artists in the digital/streaming age. The sad part? The book
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1/ Thread: Looking beyond accounting based earningsImagine there's a genie who comes to you two months before the next quarter ends and tells you whether the stocks you own will
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Today's unsolicited writing advice: If you are chasing Traditional publication it is far more involved than self-publishing just to get a foot in the door. Do your research. It's a
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I'm so proud to live in a time where kids can celebrate #IndigenousHeritageMonth in @PeelSchools. Growing up my Indigenous heritage was never celebrated at school and when it was "taught",
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1/ The 2020 Global AI Talent Report is now out: https://jfgagne.ai/global-ai-talent-report-2020/Thread with some highlights: 2/ 58k AI authors on arXiv, estimated 86,000 by end of 2020There was 46.6% growth in
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Super interesting new paper that tackles an important problem: How do we know if we're measuring variables we care about at the "right" times?Authors = @Oisin_Ryan_ and Ellen Hamaker (sorry
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A thread about reviewing.These are my opinions as an author, reviewer, editor & human being.It should go without saying...Being rejected from a journal is fine.Reviews contrary to your viewpoint are
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Paper paper! We investigated what genes malaria parasites need to develop in the liver using barcode-sequencing. Exciting collaboration led by @rrlimenitakis @bushell_lab and @AnushChP. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0092867419311808 We had
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I hit a wall this week. It came out of nowhere (I thought); it bulldozed all of my coping mechanisms; it refused to be sidelined. Usually, I am an emotionally-steady,
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Female publications rates from 1999-2019: on average 26.4% of political science journal articles are by female authors. It doesn't seem to be improving either. As a female scholar, this is
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Being the subject of someone else’s study isn’t fun or interesting. It’s also a hassle for orgs. If you don’t have a pre-existing collaborative relationship, leave them alone. We @DrugPolicyNerds
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THREAD on the deeper strategy behind the anonymous paper:A careful read made me realize that the paper, while done poorly in many ways, actually represents quite a sophisticated attempt to
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The author of this apparently locked their Twitter account. I guess mean tweets are out of line but throwing a brick through someone's window, torching everything they owned, and assaulting
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No, no, I bet allllll authors have things like this on their Google results page the day they release their latest book, how dare you question my professionalism. Google, seriously,
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For #EarthDay2021 , we wanted to take a minute to speak about systemic racism and how it impacts urban biodiversity. An August 2020 paper in Science found that racism and
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