PlantEvolution 🌱🌾

plantevolution.bsky.social

18 October 2026 17:08

2/2 Would it be OK if my review read: sorry, but my time is too valuable to dig through 130 pages of rebuttal. I can not recommend publication of a paper by authors who clearly have zero respect for the reviewers’ hard work.

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾

plantevolution.bsky.social

18 October 2026 17:08

Recently reviewed a pretty hefty paper for hi end journal. Amazing data but flawed analyses. Revision arrived. Should I be more disturbed that - it took the authors only 2 mo add a ton of new data & analyses, - the journal expects comments in 10 days, or - THE REBUTTAL ALONE RUNS TO 130 PAGES? 1/2

Wolfgang Huber

wkhuber.bsky.social

18 October 2026 17:08

One of the first things I was taught as a youngster when contributing to hefty papers was that it's not about convincing the critical reviewer, but wearing them out. A war of attrition packed into endless polite sentences, additional analyses and distractions masking as triangulation 😐

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾

plantevolution.bsky.social

18 October 2026 17:07

As I was taught as a graduate student 40 years ago by Gerd Jürgens: “If you can’t convince them, confuse them. And if you are short of data, use color.” (color 1986 = fancy graphics & figures with dozens of panels 2026)

Bluesky

bsky.app

18 October 2026 17:07

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings