My mol bio subfield has this dynamic as well - a well-designed RNAseq experiment can theoretically yield multiple papers, which should logically cite each other as well as prior work from that lab leading up to the RNAseq.

I’m in a computational field, so in order to get published, you have to show results, but you also have to show that all of your model assumptions were valid to begin with. Usually that means citing previous papers that have used the same assumptions. I wonder if I’m conditioned to look for other authors to appeal to…

it sure is

Let me go through my own comment history and find approximately 1,500 citations. BRB.

1. *skims title and clicks link*
2. *watches video*
3. “why would io9 do this? slow day or what?”
4. *close tab and refresh jezebel*
5. *notices same post is on jezebel, reads post author’s name*
6. *confusion over*

This brings flashbacks of this college professor I had. I took his philosophy class to fulfill an elective. The guy had 4 books on the syllabus, 2 of them written by him. He kept citing himself the entire semester in class and, of course, our papers had to use his books. I remember catching him talking in third person…

To some extent it’s not really surprising because when plagiarism accusations start flying around they can include self-plagiarism. You’re not supposed to substantially repeat something you said somewhere else without citing to it.

I’m not convinced. Do you have a citation for that?

Well, no other man can mansplain quite like they do.

No, she was doing her job the way other critics do their job which is why they have special screenings for the press.

What is the ostensible reason not to allow an inmate to shower? It's amazing to me the depth of torture we allow prison guards to inflict upon inmates for no reason at all.

I live in LA and it was 91 degrees today. So I unless I get up at 6am or wait until the sun starts to set, an indoor treadmill is the only thing that seems humane to me.

Jesus Christ, sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover. Thanks Roger for proving that you fucking monster.

-2 points for unnecessarily ruining pesto.

Do most people who run in NYC run on treadmills? Just thinking it’s easy for me (on Kauai) to go outside and run, but maybe not so for city-folk. Either way, thanks for the awesome playlist. Going outside to run now...

she “[lured] young female Fox employees into one-on-one situations with Ailes

WTF. Give somebody the week off to drive him there!

He was only two days away from retirement..

It’s like living in a tank for a century...