Oh, shit! I actually misread this. You are right. I'm tempted to think this person might be pulling Chris' lag?
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What I thought, wrongly, was they were signing the good ones but pretending to be other people by writing as if they were ("In my lab this, that" which would be true for a competitor) other people.
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I think it's amgigious from Chris' tweet what impersonate means: 1) sign the name of; or 2) write like they are **another person**.
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The second one. Or least that was the claim. The guy was drunk but also a nob when sobre, so I would rate the chances of him telling the truth as: distinctly likely. Actually, thinking of it, it's not the first time I've heard academics talk about impersonating their nemeses.
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Ah, was just asking you.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/983704348717932544 …
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ @o_guestReplying to @chrisdc77 @siminevazire and 3 othersWhen you say impersonate, you mean Dr. X (=drunk mid-career academic who nobody liked) wrote in his -ve reviews "in my lab this and that" when in fact "this and that" were true for his enemy's (Dr. Y's) lab, right?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Thanks for clarification. And yes, I have heard this type of thing too. It's tough to know much this is for their own amusement as nobody else might even get where they are coming from.
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yeah it's a behav that exists very much at the niche end of the arsehole academic spectrum. The first time I came across it, the msg was all "it's tough out there, you gotta defend your turf, here's how". Never realised how much some sci's hate each other, but I soon learned.
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Yeah, it's in some ways very interesting to see this kind of pure hearted close up. In almost all other ways, it's disturbing and gross, of course.
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The funny thing is, it often seems to be ppl who do trivial stuff that fight the dirtiest. Knew a guy who had a long running feud with another guy over some meaningless (to me) detail of the ergonomics of the way people use computer mice. Honestly the amount of heat generated...
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That... doesn’t even make sense! Who has energy or time for a random feud?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
I've heard middle aged white dudes have spare spoons and time to burn. /s
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