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Tag Archives: publishing
Periodic prose
It is, apparently, #WorldPoetryDay (on Twitter at least) and the question of writing a scientific paper in poetry form cropped up again (it does every now and then). And when it does, I usually end up digging through the dusty … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, History of science, Publishing
Tagged #worldpoetryday, chemistry, chemistry publishing, haiku, history of chemistry, hoffmann, iambic pentameter, limerick, literature, poetry, publishing, shakespeare, sonnet
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Back to the future (of chemistry publishing)
So, here’s my obligatory Back-to-the-Future Day post and, because it is me doing this, it’s obviously about chemistry publishing. I figured I’d compare one issue of a journal published in 1985, with an issue published in 2015. Because the last … Continue reading
Posted in Carnivals, Fun, History of science, Publishing
Tagged angewandte chemie, authorship, back to the future day, chemistry, chemistry publishing, editorial, papers, publishing
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All your base are belong to JACS
This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s that looked at word clouds made up from the titles of JACS papers from the last 115 years. Jake Yeston commented on Twitter about the lack of catalysis-based words in the clouds. This … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged acids, bases, catalysis, chemistry, chemistry publishing, jacs, language, publishing, synthesis, titles, twitter, word clouds
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115 years of JACS titles
When Nature Chemistry celebrated its 5th anniversary last year, we put together a word cloud (using Wordle) featuring the 150 words that appeared most often in the titles of the papers we had published up to that point. That was … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged chemistry, chemistry publishing, graphene, jacs, language, mofs, nature chemistry, new, novel, publishing, reactions, structure, synthesis, word clouds, wordle, words
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Some surprising silicon chemistry
Ever since Scott Denmark told me about a gem of a paper back at the Bürgenstock conference a few years, I’ve been meaning to blog about it. Well, today is as good a day as any* I suppose, so here … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Publishing
Tagged april, april 1st, april fools day, chemistry, d orbitals, dietmar seyferth, fools, fun, NMR, organosilicon, publishing, scientific literature, scott denmark, silicon
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A quantitative analysis of how often Nature gives a fuck
After seeing this tweet the other evening: Huge respect to @CSPO_ASU's Dan Sarewitz for getting the one word sentence "Bollocks" into @nature http://t.co/AQC4hdENMC — Jack Stilgoe (@Jackstilgoe) February 6, 2015 I started to wonder just how sweary Nature has been … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Journal stuff, Publishing
Tagged bollocks, copper nanotubes, fuck, george carlin, nature, pr4l, profanity, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing, swear words, swearing
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Not that Noble
From Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie in 1856… Either this chap was publishing under a not-terribly-creative pseudonym, or someone at the editorial office got a bit confused…
Posted in Fun
Tagged alfred nobel, copy editing, fun, history, history of chemistry, nobel, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing
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