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For a change, a proper #milestone. 1000 reads on RG for the #Reticulate origin of modern plane trees (#Platanus, Platanaceae): A nuclear marker puzzle

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guido-Grimm/achievement/6929624c0df56f392494b91f

It's profoundly comforting to see that one's work is still raising interest after more than a decade, especially, something that at the time of publication was harshly attacked by "expert #reviewers" –anonymously of course (#FightTheFog). And ignored by the botanical High Priests beyond the Big Pond 😎😎😎

📸 A Journey Through the Fog of Depression

Today started heavy. Depression does that—it numbs, isolates, and pulls like gravity. But I’ve learned through years of therapy, especially MBT (Mentalization-Based Treatment), that passivity feeds the darkness.

So I fought. Gently. I got up, told my loved ones how I felt, grabbed my camera, and walked. Not far—just through my neighborhood. But far enough.

I started with a black-and-white shot of crows over a church—still feeling the weight. Then, purple campanula—color pushing through the gray. At the museum gates, the structured lines mirrored the limits depression imposes. I saw old doors, one with a “poop scraper” from centuries past—a reminder that darkness was always part of history, and we’ve always found ways to clean it off. The next door, a symbol of resilience, built in the 1930s—a time of rebuilding.

Then came the Goldstrum, tall and open to the sun. I stood tall too. I felt the warmth. At Spoorpark, I watched people relax, ducks glide, a young coot close to me—a quiet connection. A boy gazed over the water in stillness. Just like me. Still. Strong. Present.

Photography helped me reconnect. If you’re struggling: talk to someone. Move. Create. It doesn’t fix everything—but it can make everything feel possible again.

📷Canon 7D Mark II with EF-S 15–85mm

#DepressionAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #MBT #PhotographyAsTherapy #Canon7DMarkII #EF15_85mm #NatureHeals #Spoorpark #Tilburg #HealingJourney #MentalHealthPhotography #GetOutside #YouAreNotAlone #SmallStepsBigChange #MindfulMoments #WalkingTherapy #UrbanNature #EmotionalHealth #ArtAndHealing #VisualDiary #FlowerTherapy #BlackAndWhiteMood #SelfCareSunday #StreetPhotography #PersonalGrowth #NaturePhotography #HealingThroughLens #ResilienceInBloom #SymbolismInPhotography #MoodInFrames #InnerStrength #ColorAndContrast #FightTheFog #CreativeRecovery #HopeInNature #DutchLight #TilburgMoments #DailyWalk #MindfulLiving #PhotographyForTheSoul #InspirationThroughArt

Pretty content with myself, today.

I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

#FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

First lines of my letter to the handling editor of our manuscript on the evolutionary history of beeches.

"We demonstrate that an accelerating number of researchers – on the order of 10% or 20,000 researchers on Stanford’s Top 2% researchers – are achieving implausibly high-publication and new coauthor rates, with many producing tens to hundreds of papers per year, and gaining hundreds to thousands of new coauthors annually." – Related question: When did you last had high-profile coauthors that even read your paper?
https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 #openaccess #FightTheFog

#FightTheFog #AcademicChatter

Rigorous #PeerReview @ PLoS ONE: reject a paper because the editor cannot manage to get (any) reviews in time.

Related #FunFact: as long as reviews are quick, a paper's and the reviewer's reports quality doesn't matter so much. And not only in PLoS ONE.

#Peerreviewed: "We interpret this #paleoclimate as summer dry and winter wet—a climate analogous to modern day warm #Mediterranean climates in the Köppen‐
Geiger climate classification system" https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874

That'd be Csa. Pic: fig. 4, modern analogs 🤨

Well, thanks to #ClimateChange, they all turn Csa eventually: #OldPosts
Wladimir Köppen – a climate-vegetation genius, and what this has to do with wine
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2018/02/wladimir-koppen-climate-vegetation.html

#palaeoclimate #PeerReview #FightTheFog

#Science #Publishing #FunFact: The individual H-indices of the four senior authors are, according to their #GoogleScholar profiles, 58 and 56 for the museum curators, 153 for the "distinguished professor" and 146 for his spouse (many shared papers). La creme-de-creme of the FMNH/UF
https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=de&org=5315230152465104173&before_author=-rG4__VUAQAJ&astart=0

Saves a lot of time not having even to read the papers of one's juniors and first-authors.

Time you can spend on fun things. Just look at their happy faces.

#FightTheFog

#FightTheFog-Update to https://ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/110101595898174133

Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

PS #OldPosts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

Couldn't help a quick #CommentTo Klak et al. (2020; https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.459.2.5) regarding the notion of "confirm[ing] some previously published facts, e.g. that D. zygophylloides is sister to Drosanthemum", which we identified as likely ingroup-outgroup long-branching artefact.

Previously published facts a.k.a. branching artefacts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/11/previously-published-facts-aka.html

#NewPosts #Taxonomy #FightTheFog

I pondered organisation, so my followers can make the best of Mastodon's filter option (settings -> filters).

I'll hash my posts as follows
#NewPosts—for new #blogposts on Res.I.P. and others I follow.
#OldPosts—for historical ones
#PhyloNetworks—anything #phylogenetics-ish beyond mere tree-inference
#FightTheFog—anything shrouding science (like confidential #PeerReview)
#CommentTo—post-reviews
#NotScience—for the irrelevant rest

#FightTheFog

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