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Prof. Saab Story
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Tenured in rage, adjunct in joy. Driver of a dying Saab. Publisher of papers I had to pay for. Normally surrounded by incompetence and incontinence. Failed gardener. Satire.
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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 8h
And I don’t blame this choice.
Open Access isn’t Open Your Wallets please, libraries and academics.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 8h
And I don’t blame this choice.
Open Access isn’t Open Your Wallets please, libraries and academics.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 2d
More like peer-review Tai Chi… lots of motion, zero contact, and somehow I’m still bleeding open access invoices.
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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 2d
I agree… not all are toxic and some are well reviewed… If thats where your tribe is, thats cool… however, aggressive reviewer requests, obscure “special editions”, and the questionable editorial decisions are reasons many mdpi pubs is a problem.
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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 3d
Review request from an MPDI journal.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 5d
Oh the Assistant Professor chicken of the Full Professor? Probably massaging his LinkedIn profile page.
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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 5d
The tenured Prof before me took 15 minutes instead of 10. Now I’m the villain if I cut into lunch. Dudes so full of self importance that I loose my appetite. Nothing like being punished for punctuality in the name of ‘collegiality.’

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 5d
Faculty report waits,
Unread Saab’s manual
Oil stains seal my fate.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 6d
Still did not complete the faculty annual report. It’s late, padded with superlatives , and no one’s going to read it anyway. Might as well submit an oil-stained maintenance log from my Saab—same level of institutional impact.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 7d
If a student walks into my class with meta glasses, I plan to test its efficacy through a strategic projectile vomit.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 7d
People can’t walk and text without eating pavement, but sure… let’s strap on some dumbass glasses as well.

Meta glasses: because clearly what humanity needs is to bring another distraction 3 inches closer to the optic chiasm.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 12d
The AWS outage stories keep getting better… garage won’t open, fridge orders 60 gallons of oat milk, house locks them out till they say ‘please’ to Alexa, and overheating beds. Meanwhile, my Saab just needs oil and an apology. The Internet of Things is the dumbest thing ever invented.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 13d
Fair… I agree when it’s peer review for journals or colleagues in the trenches. But when billion-dollar publishers come knocking with commercial book proposals, and authors get shards of pennies on the dollar, it feels less like reciprocity and more like free labor for shareholder dividends.
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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 13d
Plenty of things piss me off, but nothing quite like being asked by a big publisher to review a book proposal for free. Not a cent, not even a coffee voucher. Apparently my expertise is worth exposure and a thank-you PDF… but not the book itself.

Asshats.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 14d
The college report remains idling, spewing noxious fumes like my Saab.

I feel like I’m dressing up an open jar of Ebola or cesium-137 with christmas wrap: looks pretty on the outside, but its toxic sludge thats induces double strand breaks.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 14d
The AWS outage is hilarious. It’s like a digital COVID when suddenly the world stands still and the beauty of silence reveals itself…

… and a nightmare for the LinkedIn boneheads whose contributions to science is the variance of unknown icons barfed out from an LLM onto a post.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 14d
Still haven’t finished that college report and admin keeps hounding me. At this point, it’s less a document and more a perfect example of procrastination.

Here is lies the true value AI sludge and micro-babble: nobody’s going to read the damn 30 page report anyway.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 17d
Just shed a tear of joy over a student’s README.txt file It was clear, organized, human-readable, even indicating subfolders. In this wasteland of AI sludge and broken syntax, it was a thing of beauty… unlike my Saab’s muffler

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 17d
Just had a paper bounce back at “QA” because of a new/different line-numbering requirement. What, the science is fine, just not the margins?

The QA efficiency we all dreamed of!

Journals move goalposts like toddlers. My Saab’s maintenance schedule is more consistent.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 18d
Every conference starts the same: blowhard presidents of this and that yammering like bad warmup acts at a concert. Imagine how many Kreb cycles could be saved or diverted to actual science.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 19d
Dear undergrads,

Asking to join my lab when you’ve clearly used an LLM to write your email is an astonishingly bad idea. Your letters are impersonal, stale, and not inquisitive.

And that paper of mine you thought was “very interesting?”… well … it wasn’t.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 21d
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: a reminder that this continent’s foundation isn’t brilliance or progress, but built on theft, silence, and loss.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 22d
The AI crowd calls itself revolutionary, but it feeds on data scraped from the exhausted humans it ignores. Real science happens in wet labs, basements and barns, not PowerPoint keynotes and LinkedIn posts.

Ma’at, Egyptian goddess of truth and morality, silently cries.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 23d
Chalk dust on my sleeves,
streaks etched boldly and pure
whiteboards marker… dead

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 23d
Whiteboards: every marker’s dead except the yellow one nobody can read. My Saab’s jealous—those markers get replaced more often than its timing belt.

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Prof. Saab Story @angryprof.bsky.social · 24d
Latest update from Secretary Robot Frog: grand theory linking Tylenol and circumcision to the phases of the moon. Somewhere, real scientists quietly close their laptops.

Step aside for the academic flex, squirminator X

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