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Mark A. Hanson
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New PI interested in #immune #evolution and host #pathogen interactions and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. #immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience
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Now you see "median time to first decision 11 days" and garbled nonsense get through 'peer review' there. Amino Acids' "Impact Inflation" has increased: this is a telltale sign of a journal becoming a nest for 'citation cartels.' #SciPub#AcademicSky 4/n

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Did ownership change hands to Springer recently? @abalkina.bsky.social#SciPub#AcademicSky

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Indeed. One of the recent papers pubpeer.com/publications...

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Mark A. Hanson
@hansonmark.bsky.social
New PI interested in #immune #evolution and host #pathogen interactions and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. #immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience
762 followers344 following562 posts