Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Fake CV #7

Another cautionary tale, writ in a CV:


DEE S. PERATE

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-present
PhD., 2008, Femtoscience, Genius Institute of Technology
B.S., 2001, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math (quadruple major), Brilliant Institute of Technology

 Publications

 Perate, D.S., 2012, On being a femtoscientist. Brilliant Institute of Technology alumni bulletin, p. 15.

 Perate, D.S., 2011, Whither femtoscience? Genius City Press (editorial, April 3, page D7).

Perate, D.S. and Advis, O.R., 2011, Femtoscientific analysis of a nanocomposite layered material with 3Rt structure and inverse polytypic vacancy switching. Journal of Femtoscientific Analysis, 22 (3), 345-361. (impact factor: 17)

 Perate, D.S. and Advis, O.R., 2009, Femtoscientific analysis of a nanocomposite layered material with 3Rt structure and inverse polytypic vacancy switching. Abstract F354-32, "Less than Nano" annual conference, Danvers, Massachusetts.

 Perate, D.S., 2008, Femtoscientific analysis of a nanocomposite layered material with 3Rt structure and inverse polytypic vacancy switching. Ph.D. thesis, Genius Institute of Technology, 289 p. (with Appendix).
at

12 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/16/2013 12:27:00 AM

    All the "scientific" stuff is the same title......

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous1/16/2013 06:05:00 AM

    Writ so large that I'm not sure I'm seeing it correctly.

    Is the cautionary tale here about having only one decent paper in 10 years and padding out the publications list with a thesis and some newspaper articles?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous1/16/2013 09:10:00 AM

    Perhaps the cautionary tale is not to go and shoot for the stars: here the candidate got one high profile publication, but maybe not as high as they hoped, and nothing else.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anonymous1/16/2013 09:14:00 AM

    I think it is that you shouldn't mix up a real (peer-reviewed) publication with gray literature or even conference papers in fields in which those are not valued as highly as journal articles. I like to see a CV in which there are separate sections for peer-reviewed publications, then conference abstracts (in my field these are not nearly the same as publications), and then "other" (popular press, editorials, book reviews, interviews etc.).

    ReplyDelete
  5. Susan1/16/2013 10:02:00 AM

    So in addition to redundantly publishing, the candidate has one real paper to credit yet has written two editorials bloviating about it?

    My read: full of hot air.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous1/16/2013 10:16:00 AM

    289-page thesis published as a 16-page journal paper. I am not sure how field-dependent this is, but in my field a typical thesis would be at least 3 full papers, and a 289-page thesis is unusually long and might be 5 or 6 papers.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Dr_Oy_Vey1/16/2013 11:56:00 AM

    Am I the only faculty job candidate who finds these mockeries are making me anxious?

    ReplyDelete
  8. Anonymous1/16/2013 01:38:00 PM

    @Dr_Oy_Vey: I have a faculty job and they're STILL making me anxious...

    ReplyDelete
  9. mOOm1/16/2013 04:27:00 PM

    They are meant to make you anxious. If they do you need to publish more and get someone who routinely is on search committees to read your application package.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Anonymous1/16/2013 08:36:00 PM

    "Less than Nano" annual conference

    ROFL!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Anonymous1/16/2013 09:14:00 PM

    I have tenure and they are all just make me sad. Not nearly as much fun as the final exam excuses contest.

    ReplyDelete
  12. EliRabett1/16/2013 10:05:00 PM

    Femtoscience is so last century, the new cutting edge is attoscience.

    ReplyDelete