Husband, Dad, Entomologist, Ecologist, Researcher with NRCan Canadian Forest Service , and a (lapsed) Curler. Occasional climate scientist.
Chris MacQuarrie
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Re-upping my rant from February, after having been asked to act as a new(!) reviewer on a revised manuscript that had already had !!__3 reviews__!!. The authors had made all the very minor requested revisions and the AE wanted me to review the !!revision!!. THIS IS NOT WHAT PEER REVIEW IS FOR!!!!
Apropos of nothing in particular: This is an excellent book www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/665634...
This is outrageous.
When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.
wake up wake up new carabid phylogeny just dropped dez.pensoft.net/article/1896...
I've begun asking potential grad students if they read for pleasure. Not sure it's' a perfect metric but I think it's an indicator
lunch break with the lads
Chris MacQuarrie
Chris MacQuarrie
Me, upon realizing what I was being asked to do...
Winnipeg's iconic urban forest has suffered the effects of disease in recent years. The city is now replanting trees by the thousands — but it's not a straightforward regrowth process. thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-tre...
Beetles of the family Carabidae comprise one of the larger families of Coleoptera, yet their higher-level phylogeny has remained poorly resolved. We present a taxonomically densely sampled molecular p...
Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
