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sfmatheson , to random
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This is gold:

"Being scientific is hard for human brains, but as an adversarial collaboration on a massive scale, science is our only method for collectively separating how we want things to be from how they are."

https://www.thetransmitter.org/fmri/breaking-down-the-winners-curse-lessons-from-brain-wide-association-studies/




ninokadic , to AcademicChatter group
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Come up with an acronym for PHD! 📚

I'll start:

Pretty
Hectic
Days

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sfmatheson ,
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@ninokadic @academicchatter Pedant Has Dessert

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How to respond to a reviewer who thinks using 'we' consistently throughout a manuscript (in methods and a little in discussion 'we found' etc) sounds unscientific? @academicchatter #academicchatter #academicwriting

sfmatheson ,
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@maartjeoostdijk @academicchatter Hi there, I would echo support for your choice (to use active voice) and would go as far as to say that in this century, it is the overuse of passive voice that can sound "unscientific." At most journals (and all journals I know well, at PLOS and Cell Press), this "advice" from the reviewer could and should be simply ignored, both because it's not the reviewer's call and because editors should agree with you.

sfmatheson ,
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@jsdodge @maartjeoostdijk @academicchatter Amen to the intentional use of passive voice! Methods section is most obvious place for it but there are others, and I'd emphasize "intentional use."

I mean, every time we write "...but the role of X is unknown" we are using the passive voice. Can you imagine the LOLs if someone wrote "but I don't know the role of X and neither do you"?

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