#Authors

I didn't realize publishing was in so much trouble. Massive layoffs at Macmillan, Thomas Dunne imprint shuttered for good, and more publishing bad news incoming.Reader friends: If you value your
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New paper alert (open access)! *From rational to relational: How energy poor households engage with the British retail energy market*, in ERSS journal, and introduced in this thread. #energypoverty #energymarket
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This is a very large retrospective study of patients around the world, showing an increased incidence of irregular heart rhythms in patients treated with CQ or HCQ compared to untreated
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Wow. Ready Player Two just came out, and just like the first one, my feed is already thick with folks aggressively saying "This book is bad" "Cline is a terrible
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We have something big to announce today.We've built the world’s most comprehensive view of real-time news engagement and influence.It will reveal what's actually happening, live, around any topic in the
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Paper out in Nature Comms. We developed a framework to analyse the contribution of #SARSCoV2 mutations to the virus' transmissibility. We applied it to nearly 50k genomes and we found
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reviewing shitty yuto imagines on wattpad: a thread those eyes by universalyutodialogue is god awful i do not think the author has ever spoken to a person in real life
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Tips on Writing from Amazing African Authors 1/4Chimamanda Adichie 2/4Chinua Achebe 3/4Lauren Beukes 4/4Taiye Selasi Which of these resonated the most with you? Drop it in the comments below.Don’t forget
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an angry rant on why i'm *extremely* disturbed by recent Rust twitter discourse on dependencies [1/n] a natural consequence of the current "dependencies are bad lol" meme is that library
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1.If we are ascending a new realm; what frees us to fly to this new realm and what keeps us bound here?In this thread I share my thoughts on how
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Starting feel that webpack being too good at bundling stuff hides a lot of problematic practices. E.g. a library ships ESM build, but imports a CJS build of lodash -
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Looks like it's yet again time to remind reviewers that it is profoundly unnecessary to tag authors in your negative reviews of their work First of all, tagging an author
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if you're an agent offering query critiques/advice/whatever you can also promise to sign new black writers after all is said and done if the work isn't ready/you're not in love
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I read a Tweet recently where an author was upset that an online retailer had discounted the price of her book, and she thought she’d be making less per book.
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1. so back when the #Chizine shitshow happened last year, I never spoke about it on Twitter because I wasn't as active here. now that they're back, l got some
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Every day I walk to work @BCMRadiology, I am asked #COVID19 screening questions and handed a mask to wear. I investigate the reasoning behind some of the gastrointestinal screening
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