Dr. Alex Walton retweeted
Dr. Alex Walton
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Dr. Alex Walton
@evolutionsultan
Alex Walton the Evolution Sultan. Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta. For tweets about movies/pop culture see my other account: @MaltyWalton
Edmonton, Alberta Joined Mayıs 2016
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Dr. Alex Walton retweeted
New paper! We can do functional genomics to study how genes affect behavior in wild, non-model organisms— but it takes lots of dedication.
Congrats to @evolutionsultan and kudos for the dedication to making this possible in social wasps!
Dr. Alex Walton@evolutionsultan
To celebrate my b-day, look at our manuscript in @InsSociaux! We report our successes and less-than-successes when developing RNAi in paper wasps. Of special interest to anyone considering RNAi in non-model systems. @Amy_L_Toth @IDsignals @AndrewGuinness link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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@GangloffLab_OWU True, I remember that! I was thinking more fictional (or based on someone) characters in a story.
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@evolutionsultan I don't know about a movie, but they did an episode of House Hunters International about my family when we moved to France for my post-doc!
hgtv.com/shows/house-hu…
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.@evolutionsultan, you're my hero.
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Amy Lynn Toth@Amy_L_Toth
New paper! We can do functional genomics to study how genes affect behavior in wild, non-model organisms— but it takes lots of dedication. Congrats to @evolutionsultan and kudos for the dedication to making this possible in social wasps!
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If you’re into scary movies, listen to @GreenLeftArrow and I discuss The Exorcist III in the latest episode of @guyswerescrewed! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guy…
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Happy bday and congrats on a nice methods piece showing the effort in troubleshooting methods in a non model study system
Dr. Alex Walton@evolutionsultan
To celebrate my b-day, look at our manuscript in @InsSociaux! We report our successes and less-than-successes when developing RNAi in paper wasps. Of special interest to anyone considering RNAi in non-model systems. @Amy_L_Toth @IDsignals @AndrewGuinness link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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To celebrate my b-day, look at our manuscript in @InsSociaux! We report our successes and less-than-successes when developing RNAi in paper wasps. Of special interest to anyone considering RNAi in non-model systems. @Amy_L_Toth @IDsignals @AndrewGuinness
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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@IDsignals If you need to speed along one of the dinners so you can get back to the other, ask if you can have a bite of their dinner and then quickly scarf down the whole meal.
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@evolutionsultan That would be the ideal. Real chef’s kiss level flourish to the whole scenario. It’s at the Heights, so possible they could be in different rooms to help pull it off
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I was invited to two different seminar dinners at the same restaurant at the same time this week.
Do I accept both and comically switch between tables all night?
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Blinding reviewers to a manuscript's authors is a nice idea, but it's nearly impossible to not figure out whose paper I'm reviewing from the species, location, and questions being addressed.
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Dr. Alex Walton retweeted
I got a job offer and a paper accepted and my lab mates and I just won the departmental biology trivia night! Good day!
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@bhjuarez Crap probably, haha. I basically just advertised to all the editors desperately looking for reviewers that they can guilt me into doing it.
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@evolutionsultan 🤣 cue 3 review requests in your inbox
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Okay but no one should work for free
Steve Wechsler, DPT, PhD@SteveWechslerPT
Manuscript rejected after 3 months because the journal couldn’t find ONE single reviewer. I hear this is an increasingly common issue across journals. Academics, if we’re not supporting each other to move our fields forward, what are we even doing? @AcademicChatter
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@bhjuarez That's true. If I know the editor, I have a much harder time saying no (and by "hard time saying no", I mean I always say "yes").
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@evolutionsultan Same. My exceptions are colleagues I respect who ask me to review or articles in my wheelhouse that i can add tons of value to as a reviewer.
I'm open to changing my system, but definitely looking to review less now that I've reviewed quite a few articles
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@bhjuarez I still end up reviewing more than I publish, but I'm adopting a '23 policy of only saying yes to free reviewing for society journals (especially societies I'm a member of).
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@bhjuarez Journals have enjoyed being the key-holders of our most important currency for long enough that they know they can keep us hostage to their system. Refusing to review for free is one of the better tools we have to force a change!
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