It may have escaped your attention but every so often we try to provide some practical career advice. Grant writing, job applications and interviews, that sort of thing. The posts by PhysioProf are usually particularly well received.
Today, he has agreed to supply a video of how he plots a response strategy with his co-authors after receiving a typical set of reviewer comments. (We ask that you keep any speculation as to his actual identity to yourselves.)
I think you will find this instructive.
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Been there. Not fun. Too real.
Posted by: Greg Laden | November 24, 2009 7:31 PM
That was hilarious!!
Posted by: PUI Prof | November 24, 2009 7:33 PM
This is beyond hilarious. Danke, danke for this.
Posted by: Candid Engineer | November 25, 2009 8:57 AM
My advisor looks nothing like that dude. BUT at about 0.40 in, when he hears about reviewer #3, the look on his face... I've seen exact expression on my advisor's face.
Posted by: becca | November 25, 2009 10:07 AM
Yesssss - this confirms that I had correctly guessed PP's identity!
Posted by: Professor in Training | November 25, 2009 10:46 AM
There are PPs whose identity can be easily guessed.
Posted by: Pinhard Megan | November 25, 2009 11:00 AM
C'mon, it's obvious that dude and becca's advisor are identical twins. Mother nature.
Posted by: leayem | November 25, 2009 11:29 AM
I've been laughing for about an hour!
FUCK REVIEWER THREE!!! I love it....
Posted by: zippy | November 25, 2009 12:37 PM
I recently had to deal with reviewer #3. I think my reaction was quite similar. At least I had the data.
Posted by: biochem belle | November 25, 2009 1:29 PM
CPP has a really stupid looking moustache.
Also for a dude called comrade he joined the wrong party before WWII.
Posted by: antipodean | November 25, 2009 4:14 PM
Funny...I too recently had a run in with reviewer 3! They sure do get around.
Absolutely brilliant!!
Posted by: Professor Chaos | November 25, 2009 5:51 PM
Link is not working for me (using Safari- wtf?) but I know it's the same video someone sent me yesterday based on the comments. I love it, except for the part where they say the additional experiments will only take a few days. That's SO not true. Try years. And millions of dollars. That would be more like the reviews I've gotten.
Posted by: msphd | November 26, 2009 1:26 PM
Brilliant! I laughed until I cried ... twice. I just had this happen to me as well, and my response was pretty much the same.
Posted by: rotifera | December 6, 2009 6:22 PM
This brilliant video came on the day I rejected a manuscript as the third reviewer!!
Posted by: Ex prof | December 10, 2009 7:25 PM
I have to congratulate the author (s) of “A videographic primer on how to respond “ because it is the almost exact representation of a High Rank scientist Administrator, whose primary language is not English. His English should be almost perfect since he has been practicing High Neuroscience at the American Academy of NeuroMoney for almost half a century; unfortunately his English is far from perfect. On the other hand, you don’t need English to practice academic neuroscience; you need Money and the perfect language this scientist-turned money seeker speaks and keeps practicing is obscurantism, written and spoken in “palaces of intrigue”.
These palaces of intrigue are not laboratories where you breathe curiosity and fascination for brain function and dysfunction. They are “Stock Exchange Dark Rooms” where the High Rank money maker meets with associates to discuss the works of rich followers and make secret plans on destroying the reputation of equal rights supporters and kill peasant protesters without leaving a trace.
The High Rank neuropathologist, with greek accent and pseudoaristotelian background, has a powerful technique microscopy/histology based, who he has developed in association with the neurocelebrity couple under the auspices of an endocrinology-based Dean of the Academy and his female assistant executive of faculty affairs. The technique has not been patented yet but was designed for high and strong impact. The Technique is called: Connections for Gold Staining. Basically, they look for connections, not only neural connections, but also in the physiological/psychiatric “bodies of knowledge”. Once the connections have been established, the Death gene in a specific human subject is turned on by Gold Staining. This Gold Staining has nothing to do with Ramon y Cajal methodological approaches. It is just an ancient technique, imaginary based, aimed at destroying peasants’s professional future and reputation.
Posted by: apallaian | December 11, 2009 2:16 AM