In the past week I've received academic spam requests from Johnny Depp and George Orwell

#academia #academicSpam #predatoryJournal #research #academics

Dear random person,
Why, I would be delighted to check your CV for you, to see if we have overlapping interests, and pay for a visiting... checks notes... aerospace engineer!

Who teaches these people to write their #academicspam messages? Are there any succes stories out there?

This is a new kind of #AcademicSpam to me - I work on X-rays, so I guess I am also a cancer expert now? 💩

Favorite tweet of 2022

https://twitter.com/Simon_Hammann/status/1576828806689886209?t=MTwfv2xZwtLmdDF0BeR-cg&s=19

RT @Simon_Hammann@twitter.com

Yes dear #AcademicSpam. Wonderful mood.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Simon_Hammann/status/1576828806689886209

#AcademicSpam adapting to my recent collaborations with geologists...?

An anti-science religious nuthead sent a spam email to about 500 researchers in my university, as if we don't already have enough #AcademicSpam), and has made some typical BS statement. As a response I so much want to do a "reply all" and send the following brilliant text. I wish I knew the author though:

"RELIGION IS LIKE A PENIS
It's okay to have one
It's okay to be proud of it
HOWEVER
do not pull it out in public
do not push it on children
do not write laws with it
do not think with it"

#AcademicSpam emails are a part of shit I have to deal with in daily basis. The amount of time one have to sieve through the damn mailbox to fish-out legit emails from these craps! They are getting so damn cocky that they are not even trying to hide their crappy tracks and the think by using these character substitutions they can bypass the spam filter, but guess what, from now on EVERY NON ENGLISH ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS in UTF-8 Unicode will be flagged.

TIL I am "expertise in applied mathematics"

#AcademicSpam