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Professor meow meow(lemm.ee)

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scarilog@lemmy.world
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Find and replace “I” with “we”? Nah, we adding the kitty

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Mo5560@feddit.de
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Isn’t “I” considered poor form? I was taught to always write in passive but “we” is kind of the accepted exception.

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fristislurper@feddit.nl
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Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn’t find any, sadly

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Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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There are some listed on the Wikipedia page, which also contains this gem in the ‘quick facts’ section.

Known for. First cat to co-author a physics paper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard

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humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this

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Mo5560@feddit.de
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The 2nd referee will nonetheless tell you to get rid of all of them

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