Tuesday Science just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? I'll have to keep myself honest about this - although if that video repost doesn't buy me an extra few days of leniency, I don't know what does. How often do we run into something that scientifically domain-specific and funny?
For reasons that will hopefully soon cease to be relevant, we've been dealing this week with responding to, rather than writing, reviews. Despite the fact that I really do view reviews as fluid conversations between authors, referees, and editors, I find that the process of responding to reviews involves a substantially different mindset than writing one in the first place. The reasons are probably both obvious and irrelevant. When writing a review, you're squeezing out a bit of time to deal with a situation that's been unwantedly thrust upon you. You're an outside observer, and unless you've already seen the work presented (which, admittedly, is the most commonly targeted review situation), you're likely to start out pretty dubious. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie.
