Dear authors, please define your acronyms. You tell me that a variable n is the RC, but what is that? Remote control? Roman Catholic? Release candidate? Red Cross? Who's to know!

And now I have to complete the most frustrating task of each month, where I must log in to our production database, copy-paste a bunch of DOIs relating to our next issue into a Word document, and then email that document to our production team. I mean seriously.

me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding

Every overseas student benefits the UK - They pay money to the university - They spend money in the local economy - They return home with good feelings about the UK (soft power) - They help subsidise local students - They make the learning environment better It's a real 'win-win'

New PB for my front squat this evening. It's about bloody time something went right with my exercising!

Minor daily irritations #138: The fact that when you're using a tab group in chrome, Ctrl-t opens the new tab outside of that group.

The ACS/Silverchair/graphical abstracts thing is amusing, but it highlights to me that I don't think I've ever seen a graphical abstract that is actually helpful. And by 'helpful' I mean it tells me what is in the paper without actually reading the paper. Anyone got an example that is good?

Am sat in a talk and there are three people near me who are taking photos of the slides and who haven't turned off the fake shutter noise on their phone. Ca-chshhhh Ca-chshhhh ca-chshhhh Ca-chshhhh. So annoying!

Please can someone score before full time so that I can go to sleep.

Could it be that Spain are out-shithousing Argentina???

On the BBC coverage, Wayne Rooney just offered the best punditry of his TV career: “I like a lot of those artists, but I thought it was crap.” 😂

Please FIFA, don't ever do that again.

The thing is, a Superbowl halftime show has a theme, a narrative, a message. You might not like a particular year's version, but there is tradition. That show was a mess.

This halftime show thing is a crime against humanity

Get on with the game.

This is so stupid.

Lol. German TV has the play-by-play guy commentating over Madonna.

The ref, wearing all black, seems to be barely sweating. Android?

Spain are pressing so well.

I get that the whole of Europe wants to watch the game, but having the players run around in a heat bowl at 3pm seems pretty harsh. Not to mention the fans with all that beer inside them #dehydration

Watching the game. It looks hot.

Wait, the world cup final has a half time show??? What kind of nonsense is this?? I get that "football" can be an ambiguous word but this is ridiculous.

It's fine to be sceptical about the ability of AI but you have to admit it's really good at adding a ton of busywork to the already stretched academic publishing system.

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

My first ever time in Stuttgart this week. Will be at M2S and hope to conduct 😉 lots of super 😉 conversations.

Argentina deserved that.

Squeaky bum time.

Basically the first time the game opened up and there it is.

This has got 1-0 written all over it. Some scrappy goal off a defender's backside looking the wrong way and everyone will be unhappy.

Watching this in Germany with German commentators and I think it's fair to say that they are basically here for the lols.

Am watching the game because if England have a glorious/ignominious exit from the tournament, I would like to feel entitled to having an opinion about it.