#journal article

[ezekiel13]

Historians are actually the funniest people ever

[couldnt-be-gayer]

Just wrote a fic with @honey-nut-scooter and it happens to be a scientific article about what genetic mutations needs to occur for the omegaverse to actually happen. Lemme know if enjoy!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Alpha/Beta/Omega (A/B/O) mutation, colloquially referred to as the ‘Omegaverse’, is a recent genealogical phenomenon that has been observed in the past centuries as an evolutionary mutation, linked to an increase in reproduction. This mutation has resulted in the emergence of two new secondary sexes, leading to the majority of the population to be divided into two primary sexes and three secondary sexes, for six broad categories overall. This genetic mutation has greatly impacted our common day world and has been the topic of a great deal of scientific debate. This research intends to outline the basic physical characteristics of this mutation, the event that led to this mutation, what this mutation entails at a chromosomal level, and the societal impacts of these factors.

Also known as: the omegaverse as written by two biochemists and their gay omega researcher OCs

[startrek-eridani]

Newspaper clipping talking about the upcoming STAR TREK Eridani series in 1994

[layspotatochipabs]

New fic alert!! First time writing anything other than Halbarry lol.

Central City has been voted the safest city for the past three years. But it's not the statistically safest city. This paper analyzes why Central City ranked so high and proposes that superheroes increase city safety.

(aka a totally real paper published in a totally real journal about superheroes and city safety and why Central City is so awesome)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Shout-out to the best peer-reviewer @chocolateteapotsvis !!!!! This paper wouldn't be as good as it is without you!! Also special thanks to @roboticnebula and @briarmoon1015 for our discord chats that led to the creation of this paper. Without this, I wouldn't have gotten the grant from the Wayne-Queen Foundation to publish my research 🥰

[acrossthewavesoftime]

I think I may have found an article the title of which the patrons of this webbed site might enjoy.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Having just looked up the submission cost to the journal Ecology, I will be printing out 100 copies of my manuscript and handing it out on street corners instead of traditionally publishing. Much more cost effective and more people will read it that way.

[miss-biophys]

There are many postdocs in academia, but not so many permanent researchers.

A new paper shows a statistics on where hundreds of Biomedical Sciences PhD graduates eventually ended up 10 years or more after graduation.

From goal to outcome: Analyzing the progression of biomedical sciences PhD careers in a longitudinal study using an expanded taxonomy

Using a taxonomy that delineates key milestones, this study analyzed biomedical PhD student career goals and outcomes. We related career goa

What strikes me there:

1. Sooo many postdocs go to administration positions after their postdoc is finished.

And it's true! I know so many people in administration who were good scientists before!

The following graph shows that from 418 PhD graduates, 325 went for a postdoc and 93 didn't. 145 administration/management/operation (AMO in the graph) positions in the end is for me a bit shocking.

2. The time for a postdoc in academia to actually get a permanent/non trainee position can be up to 13 years!

Only half of the people makes it in 6 years after PhD graduation. That's much longer than getting a permanent job in administration. I do not want to be 13 years postdoc. This is also one of the reasons people quit academia.

There are many more facts in the original article. Go read it if you're interested.

[nicolagriffith]

I am an accidental medievalist—snared by the Early Medieval through story not scholarship. Now I'm using fiction informed by scholarship to try change public notions of the Early Medieval. Here's an interesting open-access journal article assessing one aspect of my impact.

Arthuriana and the Queer Medieval