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By: Of a swear word & a most cited Indian-American : Indigenus

Of a swear word & a most cited Indian-American : Indigenus — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:07:08 +0000

[...] made its debut in Nature Chemistry through one of their blogrolls in July last year. Also the explanation for it. I’m not sure if the word or similar such have a longer association with NPG. I shall [...]

By: 50 things you might not know about Nature Chemistry : The Sceptical Chymist

50 things you might not know about Nature Chemistry : The Sceptical Chymist — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:59:36 +0000

[...] by Paul Bracher. It’s all DrRubidium‘s fault… Paul blogged about the experience here. The editorial team discussed if we should go ahead and use the word in all its glory and we [...]

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:58:02 +0000

I think Paul might have nailed the nickname. We don’t really have any for ourselves and I’ve not heard any while out on my travels – that’s not to say they don’t exist. One of these days I’ll refer to the journal as ‘Mature Chemistry’, what with the ‘m’ and ‘n’ being neighbours on the keyboard. And I’ll let ‘Mature Chemistry’ conjure up whatever pictures you want it to…!

By: eugene

eugene — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:09:50 +0000

Paul, that’s a good one. Way better than just picking an antonym. I have to think about it. It’s definitely not an easy one, like ‘PNAS’ for ‘P.N.A.S.’ I’m having a lot of trouble with ‘Science’ actually.

bad wolf, ‘Andjewandte’ is how proper Americans pronounce the name of the journal. None of that pretentious foreign crap. Read it like it’s written in American. The way they want you to pronounce it with a ‘g’ like in ‘going’ is an abomination.

The best part about my pronunciation is that I got the Germans in the lab to say it my way too. Also one of them is very keen on my this Goeesee poet that is pretty big back there. I think they named a university in Frankfurt after him.

By: bad wolf

bad wolf — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:08:42 +0000

Paul wins the “zing of the day!”

eugene, my dictionaries fail at translating “Andjewandte” so if you wouldn’t mind explaining the joke there…? (or is the joke that all google searches for it come up with eugene’s comments on chem blogs?)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:39:15 +0000

@Eugene: Nature Chemistry = “Not Your Chemistry”?

By: eugene

eugene — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:58:55 +0000

Ah Stu, didn’t see your reply earlier. Fair enough. I guess I was a bit frustrated. It’s not every journal that gets you an answer in a science blog, so that’s a big plus. I’ll be surprised if I ever read Stang reply to me bitching about Jackass online. I got the reviews back as well… I guess one of the reviewers went AWOL, which is pretty much what we guessed, but that just made the boss (and me) paranoid that it was one of our competitors.

Anyways, I’m still probably going to submit the next one to Jackass, but only because I have waaaaay too many words at this point. Well, it’s the big boss’ final decision anyways. The next few things I can write are not Nature Chemistry level, so I can try to become a PI or do another postdoc if I want to submit more stuff to you guys.

Also, I have a hard time coming up with a suitable nickname for your magazine. I have Jackass for JACS, and Andjewandte for Angewandte, and Chemistry: A forgotten journal for Chemistry: A European journal, but I’m drawing a blank here. Any suggestions? ‘Abnormality Chemistry’ just doesn’t have a good ring to it.

By: wolfie

wolfie — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:29:08 +0000

We all see now that chemistry can have therapeutic value, in itself.

By: @DrRubidium

@DrRubidium — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:23:28 +0000

I had no idea that JAYFK is the first time the f-word has been published in Nature Chemistry. This is an honor and a privilege. Thank you! Also, thanks for the kinds words about my sux post.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:36:17 +0000

@eugene – we try and get manuscripts refereed as quickly (and effectively) as we can. Alas, sometimes the process goes more slowly than the authors (and editors) want it to. We are very much at the mercy of our referees in terms of how quickly they report; we give 2 weeks as a deadline (sometimes 3 over summer), but if a referee doesn’t report (for whatever reason), if we don’t have enough to make a decision on, we try and find someone else – and unfortunately the process does drag on in some cases. I’m sorry your experience has not been a positive one. Stu (Chief Editor of Nature “we try not to take fucking forever to review your paper but sometimes shit happens and we’re sorry about that” Chemistry)