Glad some people got the reference!

Joanna!

Not sure it quite qualifies here, but I threw a few dollars at Project Gutenberg yesterday.

Ducks and birds? What is this magic

What are birds? We just don’t know.

I was taught maths from a guy with a really strong London accent which resulted in both words sounding the same, approximately qua-i-a-ive. Which made the lesson tricky to follow.

Pay attention. Significantly more cars can make it through the lights per “green” if everyone moves as soon as they can. You’re creating extra stationery traffic for everyone.

Excellent use of the word “proves”

I have a handful of friends I’ve lent around a grand to before, one considerably more than that. With a repayment plan set up, which was followed, but I don’t really know or care what it was used for. Avoiding high interest rates on credit cards I assume.

777 the entire fs

Hodor?

Beekake

Also a good way to make sure it doesn’t have any more birthdays

I’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one

The Square, the protagonist in Flatland

Yup, been there, but the other side of it. Was hired to do research and then teaching suddenly appeared as an expectation.

Sure, that would work. Or government grants available so anyone who wants to be an editor can apply for funds to get it going. Papers are rarely printed on paper nowadays, so the main costs would be paying editors, paying reviewers, and web hosting.

I didn’t say it was the publisher’s paying the salaries. My point is that researcher are paid to research, and publishing results is part of that.

Not to argue on behalf of publishers, but the papers aren’t written for free. It’s part of the job of being a researcher, it’s a significant KPI for which you’re hired and receive a wage.

Reviewing for free is pretty much bullshit though. As is paying to read them afterwards, if your research institution doesn’t pay to publish in an open access journal