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Jan R. Boehnke
@jrboehnke@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I work at the School of Health Sciences, #DundeeUni, UK. Reading, not lecturing.
I am a psychologist interested in
Health-related Quality of Life #HRQL
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Multimorbidity #Psychometrics #RStats
And I still have a home in #PsychotherapyResearch
Ex-#REF2021 & I was a #NightshiftEditor
Main work account at Bluesky. Here also more community stuff around #Dundee #Scotland #Gaidhlig #DunDeCofaidh
he/him
Views expressed in my posts are my own.
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GitHub:
"In retrospect, these strategies were a form of authorial self-preservation."
Autoethnography of the rhetorical and emotional dimensions of writing about study limitations:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161251363704
The paper draws on 8 manuscripts, 17 drafts, 22 #PeerReview by the author, journal entries, and email exchanges.
Interesting reflections & it illustrates the challenges and questions, especially if one has not written many manuscripts, yet.
Exciting sighting on our way back from the #Highlands
The RRS Sir David #Attenborough on its way to Iceland and beyond.
Currently it is bringing an international team of researchers to Greenland for a six-week expedition to study how quickly the ice sheet’s rapidly melting fjord glaciers are pushing the Atlantic Ocean towards a critical climate #TippingPoint
https://www.bas.ac.uk/news/researchers-head-to-greenland-for-ambitious-science-mission/
A find in #BirsayBooks
Allegedly out of Jim Baikie's estate. No proof. Great story, though.
Jim Baikie
https://orkneymuseums.co.uk/orkney-artist-jim-baikie/
Bisay #Books
https://www.birsaybooks.co.uk/
The intros by David Lloyd (1990) and Alan Moore (1988) are harrowing reads. Even by the standards of the story itself.
"...and one can only speculate as to witch minority will be the next to legislated against."
I listen frequently to this while working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJPdbp1An2s
If I ever had a #sabbatical , becoming proficient in #SonicPi would probably be a good way to spend it 😅 🎶
Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
Camping for the first time during the heatwave in #Ballater resulted in people telling us that there are no nicer camping grounds in the UK and that the weather is not a representative UK camping experience.
It was nice, though. 🤭
Coming back to the revision of a paper and some final analyses for a project.
Mood music:
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@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz Congratulations indeed! Looking for continued thought leadership here! 😂 👏
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"the most elegant university tower block in Britain of its period"
I definitely missed out when I was still living close(r) to it... and a paternoster is also still on my list of things to ride? in...
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Thanks, very reassuring! Took me a while to understand that "every other"-something indicates something regular 😅
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Honest question from a non-native speaker:
This means every second Thu every second month? Or is this also entirely unclear to native speakers?
Is it acceptable as a journal to set a standard threshold for acceptable levels of text overlap in submissions?
#COPE very clear and brief: NO. https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/determining-acceptable-levels-plagiarismduplication
One of these items that makes me smirk.
It comes from Northern Germany. But while it is probably recognisable, nobody in their right mind uses that contraction*
Carrying it over the channel, people look at it and want to add a "Bah..."
#CrossCultural
Very useful for walking the #Highlands in summer, though!
* It is not even the full #ConsonantSkeleton