The whole world is waiting for us to break up

After Shen Zhui and Yu Fan were dismissed, the position of dean of several colleges suddenly became vacant.

According to the usual practice, the position of dean is promoted from among the current vice deans. There are three current vice deans in the number of colleges, Xu Kong, Yang Shen and Luo Song.

When Xu Kong came to Star University by air, he directly rejected the position of dean. The next selection was basically equivalent to abstention, and the rest was between Yang Shen and Luo Song.

As for the outcome of this selection, it is not easy to say.

In recent years, Yang Shen has paid more attention to teaching students. The publication of papers and scientific research projects have been slightly less. Luo Song has produced more papers, but he has taught two departments at the same time: the School of Mathematics and the School of Chemistry, of which the School of Chemistry is his The content of the center of gravity, the two sides are evenly matched, it is difficult to determine who will become the dean.

Regarding the current situation, one thing that is unspoken in the heart of the star university circle is that this selection of dean, on the surface, is a competition between two people, but behind it is a contest between two schools of thought.

The matter of Yu Fan's dismissal for academic fraud is still highly discussed, and people are constantly digging into the academic disputes behind this incident in several institutes, and there are various forces.

Some doctoral supervisors from other colleges made a public statement: "Although there are some academic scum in the old European branch faction, there are still more excellent academic leaders. We are more theoretical, but we are definitely not a school that clings to old antiques. The School of Dashu cannot lose the support of theory, if everyone studies front-end tools for making money, then our real doomsday will be when technology stagnates after a hundred years or a thousand years.”

The theoretical school was frustrated once, and more people focused their attention on the gossip behind it.

A few days ago, some good people in the circle published a very hot and directional paper, which deeply revealed some things in the academic circle. The Oppenheimer era, and listed the in-depth gossip of universities in the league. For example, the reason why xx University and xxx University are in the same situation is because of the competition for scientific research talents. After countless bosses, the scientific research talents brought a bunch of confidential The data and innovation research direction became his own boss, and continued to work on his own projects, which caused hidden losses of up to [-] billion, which directly led to the stagnation of some alliance defense projects, which were completely blocked by the academic circle.

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These revelations were true and reliable, but they were quickly suppressed by various forces.Although the surface is calm, the spirit of all parties is actually highly tense.

North American Branch, Xia Family.

"Baby, Mom and Dad have already contacted the people at Star University for you, but this time it's a bit difficult, you know? If you study here, we can get you wherever you want, but Star City There are not many people we know anymore, and parents can only try their best to help you find a relationship. The Yu Fan I knew before...he has wiped out himself, and there is only one Luo Song left. Let's see if he can succeed, but it depends. Next month's election results." Sitting on the sofa, Xia's mother said to Xia Ran earnestly.

She is not young, but she is well maintained, her whole body is very delicate, and she also looks graceful and luxurious.

Xia Ran was half kneeling on the floor of the study, looking for the study materials and tools he needed.He didn't speak, but just buried his head in the search, and found a few books and a few boxes of old paints.

Half of the painting materials from high school were left, but after so long, when he took them out of the box, the unused ones were still as clean as new.The brushes have been washed clean, and the paint tubes have been screwed back into place. These are the best paints they had in high school, and they are well-known brands even now.

"I said you... well, why do you have to take the Xingda University?" Xia's mother said with a sad face, "It's so far away, no one can take care of you... I can't find any relationship there, do you want to..."

"Mom, can't I get in by myself?" Xia Ran's voice was muffled.

Mother Xia was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "You child, mother knows that you must have this ability, but use it when it matters, don't be so stupid."

She looked at Xia Ran, and after a while, lowered her voice and asked, "Honey, are you still thinking about that... Xiao Fu? I heard from your Aunt Bai that Xiao Fu was transferred back to work in Star City, and now The Seventh Division and Fu's Military Industry are on both sides, he hasn't had a serious date for a long time, do you want to..."

"Mom, he has a boyfriend." Xia Ran interrupted her.

He stood up holding the paint materials and put them back on the desk, "It has nothing to do with him, I just want to go back to study."

Xia's mother said awkwardly: "It's good to study, it must be good to study. You child, you didn't say anything about you, why are you so aggressive. It just so happens that the Ou family sent their daughter there, so you can take care of you when you go there now."

Xia Ran finished his university studies in the old North American branch, played rock music with others, and studied to be a tattoo artist. He is the best age at 24 or five years old. His classmates at the same age have entered social work, but he has capital—as Xia Ran. The most favored child in the family doesn't work so hard.

In fact, with half the effort, he could shine brighter than everyone else.Xia Ran is talented in painting. Even in the difficult and confusing period of the late third year of high school, he could pass the scores of the top three art courses of Xingda University, Xingmei, and Design Academy without reviewing. superior.

Later, he repeated his studies for a year, and because the Xia family had developed a new force in the North American branch, he took advantage of special recruits and was admitted to the North American branch's Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied in the Department of Design.

Xia Ran sat at the desk, turned on the lamp, the sky outside changed from smoky blue to dark black, but the book in front of him hadn't turned a single page.

He stared blankly for a long time, then turned on his phone and saw the latest news in the group.

Fu Xue: [Ran Ran, are you coming back? 】

Others came out one after another and exclaimed: [What? ?what happened?Burning is coming back! 】

Xia Ran said, "【Well, I'm reviewing, and I want to take the Xingda Academy of Fine Arts.】

Fu Xue: [There is still an exam!You come back to prepare for the exam first, and I will contact someone for you, and I should be able to operate the thorough questions for you, so there is nothing to be afraid of!when are you going to come back 】

Others in the group also came out to refresh their screens one after another. Within 5 minutes, this group of people even thought about where to catch up with Xia Ran when he came back.

Xia Ran looked at it for a while, exited the group chat interface, and clicked on a person's profile picture.

Fu Luoyin's avatar is the default avatar, a gray villain, and his personality doesn't make any good-looking avatars.In the past, when the two of them changed their couple portraits together, it was all Xia Ran's instigation.

He entered "I'll be back in a few days" in the dialog box, and pressed the delete key to return after a while, buried his face in his hands, and took a deep breath.

The second day after Lin Shuicheng joined the review team, He Muya's bodyguard Xu Hang contacted him again: "Student Lin?"

Lin Shuicheng said, "It's me, what's the matter?"

"Oh, that's it. I'm here to remind you to sort out the contents of the report and go through the process to report it to General He. Don't forget, the project bonus is 300 million."

Lin Shuicheng thought about it for a while: "Shouldn't this be the process of the college or... the Seventh Division? It shouldn't be reported by me personally."

"It's you personally. The Seventh Office said that they only provided the equipment, and the credit is yours. The academy has no objections for the time being. After the report is up, go through the process. It's not just the project funds. This can be credited as the first-class individual merit of the alliance "Xu Hang said, "You may not be very clear about the importance of investigations related to random, you just need to know that the investigation priority of this criminal group is also very high. There are many."

Lin Shuicheng: "I understand."

A pile of replicas that can be accurate to the atomic level will definitely be a big trouble for the alliance government, at least it shows that the other party has mastered very advanced technology.It has been mentioned before that this case is a mineral water project of Xingda University, but it is definitely not a mineral water project of the Police General Affairs Department. The magnitude can only be serious.

"That's why, although your research results are beautiful, I hope you don't publish or contribute them, so as not to be targeted by random and its organization members. At the same time, your research results cannot be published in newspapers, and it is all because of your Considerations of personal safety."

Lin Shuicheng: "I understand, thank you. It's just that I have some things to do recently, and it may take two weeks before I have time to tidy up. Is this okay?"

"It's not urgent, it depends entirely on your wishes." Xu Hang said, "If you have anything, you can still contact me at any time. I wish you a happy life."

Lin Shuicheng has been very busy recently. Since Ou Qian was disqualified in the military issue last time, he has become the team leader and continues to be in charge of the follow-up project investigation.

The rest of the team members cooperated very well this time. He gave the idea and framework. An Ruyi and Lu Jian ran the data with all their heart, while Xu Mengmeng was responsible for checking, combining, and error correction over and over again. The team cooperation was unprecedentedly harmonious, and they all worked overtime Plus points for research.

In addition to this project for the military, there is also a recent TFCJO journal reviewer.

Lin Shuicheng is still a rookie in this area. Although he was with Yang Zhiwei during his undergraduate period, he had no chance to contact the manuscript review system, because these opportunities are for doctoral students. As an undergraduate student, he still lacks such opportunities in time.

Every doctoral student will basically encounter the situation that the boss throws the manuscript to himself for review. For Yang Zhiwei, he is used to throwing some manuscripts that need to be rejected at a glance to his doctoral students for review, and asks the students to give a review Opinion,.It not only reduces the workload, but also trains the students.Reviewers have an honorary status and do not have a job. Yang Zhiwei will also subsidize money to his doctoral students as their salary for reviewing manuscripts.

There is a unified measurement standard for the level of academic journals in the alliance, that is, the IF value: the sum of the number of citations of the journal in the two years before the year of publication, divided by the total number of articles published by the journal in the previous two years, generally speaking, the IF index A value greater than 1 indicates a higher citation rate, and a higher IF value also represents the influence of this academic journal.

The IF index of TFCJO journals is about 7, and Yang Zhiwei basically handled journal review tasks with IF>10.

Lin Shuicheng has no experience in reviewing manuscripts. For him, this is not a small challenge.

Manuscripts were soon assigned to him for review. The review of TFCJO is divided into three stages: initial review, second review, and third review. In the first review, three reviewers will give their opinions respectively and decide whether to keep the manuscript. These review opinions will also be passed by the leader of the reviewers.

The name of the top reviewer on the TFCJO official website is Sinemora, which translates to "no more hesitation". He has been in the review meeting for 14 years, and no one has been able to pick out his vest so far.His manuscript style and review comments are unpredictable, but he is generally considered to be the most stable and knowledgeable reviewer. He is proficient in chemistry, physics, mathematics, theoretical direction and practical tool direction. They can give solid opinions.

Many people once suspected that "No Hesitation" was Yang Zhiwei, but Lin Shuicheng knew that Yang Zhiwei was not.

At night, when Fu Luoyin came home, he saw Lin Shuicheng reviewing manuscripts with an electronic pen in his mouth.

Lin Shuicheng projected the manuscript on the TV, and when the surrounding lights were turned off, the pages on the screen were very obvious.

When Fu Luoyin entered the door, he said "Yo" casually: "I'm reviewing the manuscript."

At a glance, he saw the sign of the internal watermark of TFCJO journals - Fushi Military Technology has to connect with countless journals with IF>10 every year, and find the talents and research directions they need in countless papers. The articles published by TFCJO in recent years have made achievements in the fields of AI and CV, which Fu Luoyin is familiar with.

Lin Shuicheng was holding a bowl of potato chips, watching while eating, jotting down some information, and ignored him.

He reviewed two manuscripts during the day, and wrote a lot of revision comments. He wished they were busy. When he was reviewing the third manuscript, a message popped up at the top of the page—"Your review comments have been adjusted."

Lin Shuicheng clicked in and took a look, and found that the revision comments he wrote to the two manuscripts during the day were marked red, and several places were deleted, and it was almost a major revision-he directly deleted more than 400 fields into one or two sentences, and some opinions were integrated New comments were listed separately, while some comments were simply omitted.

In other words, less than 20% of Lin Shuicheng's amendments were adopted, and this is only one of them.

Another article, Lin Shuicheng's manuscript to be reserved, the other party directly changed his revision opinion to "reject".

Lin Shuicheng pursed his lips when he saw the red deletions and changes in his eyes.

He didn't have any fluctuations on the surface, but Fu Luoyin had already automatically imagined another angry Lin Shuicheng in his heart - he was a little touched by this idea, and couldn't help but smile.

Lin Shuicheng didn't know what he was laughing at. He glanced at Fu Luoyin, then dragged the slider to the bottom, and saw the name of the editor: Sinemora (no longer hesitate).

Fu Luoyin sat down beside him, took him into his arms, and lowered his head to grab a potato chip from his fingertip.

The potato chips fried by Lin Shuicheng were sprinkled with salt and pepper, and they were very fragrant. Fu Luoyin was eating while looking at the screen in front of him: "It's him, a person at the level of area chair/editor, you are very lucky. He will guide you."

Lin Shuicheng looked at him.

Fu Luoyin continued to search for his potato chips: "Don't look at me, and don't get angry, this person is no simpler than Yang Zhi. Before I entered the Seventh Office, I had a hard task to publish an academic paper with IF>5 or above. The manuscript was reviewed by him, but it was not this one, but another journal. His review ID has always used this "no hesitation", and the style is relatively fixed. Although sometimes it is more private, but other things are fine. Said."

Lin Shuicheng re-read the revised opinion of "No Hesitation" again: "I know what he changed is correct, but how do you know that he brought private goods?"

"Do you think the judging activities are double-blind?" Fu Luoyin asked.

Lin Shuicheng hesitated for a moment: "...Isn't it double-blind? The reviewers don't know who each other is, and the contributors and reviewers don't know who each other is, so that fairness can be guaranteed."

"You think this is too simple. It is double-blind in theory, but it is easy to see." Fu Luoyin raised his chin and motioned him to look at the third paper manuscript on the screen, "I don't need your third paper." Everyone knows that it is the paper of an old professor surnamed Du from the School of Chemistry of Xingda University. It is either he or the Ph. Only he and his students are doing this direction."

Lin Shuicheng was stunned for a moment——Fu Luoyin really said so. For example, the military project he was the team leader this time had already published a paper just by opening the topic.As long as someone with a heart does a search, they will immediately know who is conducting this research.

He lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then said softly: "That's also a single-blind selection, the contributors won't know who we are."

Fu Luoyin said: "What's so difficult about this, the academic circle has guessed everything. Do you know who this 'no longer hesitate' is?"

Lin Shuicheng looked at him for a while, and then said, "I don't know."

"His name is Jin Li, you should have heard his name before." Fu Luoyin said.

Lin Shuicheng thought for a while, and immediately got the impression: Jin Li is a mixed race, ten years younger than Yang Zhiwei, but he also became famous at a young age.Although he has no world-class discoveries, he has broken through stagnant research in more than one field. His style is very cutting-edge and hard-working. Lin Shuicheng met him at a CVPR conference—one of the three top conferences in academia One, the team led by Jin Li has won the best paper award for five consecutive years.

And Jin Li himself has contributed a lot to the academic circle. Lin Shuicheng didn't know about it carefully, but he only vaguely remembered that this person seemed to hate Yang Zhiwei very much.

Jin Lidai's students must abide by an unwritten rule: all papers written by Yang Zhiwei are not allowed to be quoted.

Almost everyone in the academic circle knows this rule, but Yang Zhiwei just laughed it off.

If Sinemora is Jin Li, it seems that he deserves his name, and Lin Shuicheng is not surprised.But he didn't know how Fu Luoyin came to this conclusion, he looked at Fu Luoyin inquiringly.

Fu Luoyin spread his hands: "I said that he carried private goods. This person is notoriously eccentric. When he sent out his revision comments for reviewing manuscripts in the early years, eight of the ten suggested documents were his own. In order to improve My own citation rate. But I didn’t do that much later, and gradually not many people remembered it. The TFCJO journal 14 years ago was not as important as it is now, and few people would pay attention to it, but I will be exposed to surveys for work reasons.”

After listening to what he said, Lin Shuicheng turned on his phone and searched for Jin Li's entry.

He whispered, "He's from the old European branch."

And it seems to be at the leader level.

In recent years, the factions of the old European branch and the factions of the old North American branch have been in the same situation, grabbing resources and grabbing the top.It can be seen from what happened at Xingda University in the famous painting appraisal case.

It's not that Lin Shuicheng doesn't know these things, but he's not interested.

In the academic circle, there are many quarrels and competitions for ideas and research opinions. When Lin Shuicheng was a sophomore, he once watched a professor in his 60s and [-]s pointing his nose unceremoniously at the summit to refute. The words were very fierce, and even once Can't close.

At that time, the people around him discussed with him, saying that they felt that this would make the scene unsightly.

But he didn't think there was anything wrong. He thought about it, maybe when he was five or sixty years old, he wouldn't mind being pointed out in public for his shortcomings in the research direction; similarly, he wouldn't choose to remain silent just to take care of the scene. people.

Lin Shuicheng was silent for a while: "The position of reviewer for this journal...was recommended to me by Mr. Xu Kong."

He seemed to consider it for a while, then turned to look at Fu Luoyin: "I don't know if I should..."

His voice trailed off, and his brows furrowed again.

Fu Luoyin once again imagined a group of aggrieved Lin Shuicheng in his mind—then snatched a piece of potato chips he had just picked up from his fingertips, and asked him: "Do you think they put you in, maybe because For later or today's factional struggles?"

Lin Shuicheng was silent, he didn't say yes, but he didn't deny it either.

He didn't like this feeling very much, even though the other party was his mentor and stood with his most respected teacher, he didn't like it.

"The reviewer's criterion is to be objective and fair, to avoid conflicts of interest, to be concise, to be constructive, and not to nitpick. This is a very simple job. You can think about it. It is the environment that determines this situation. Perhaps your The teachers didn't think much of it at all, they just thought it was an opportunity to train you."

Fu Luoyin began to seduce the chief in the corner with the potato chips, "But to put it bluntly, there are not so many opportunities for innocence and neutrality in this world. People with different interests stand on the other side, and you and others will naturally be divided into In another faction, this is the social attribute of human beings, which you cannot avoid. Without this attribute, it cannot have any impact on you, and if it has any, it should not have any impact on you.”

He looked at Lin Shuicheng and smiled: "I can't imagine you secretly adding the title of your thesis to the revised opinion and asking the other party to quote it. What do you think?"

Lin Shuicheng pursed his lips: "I won't do that."

"That's it. You don't need to care whether that Sinemora is a gold or silver plum, review the manuscript carefully, pay attention to rest, and that's it." Fu Luoyin put the potato chips on a piece of waste paper and leaned over on the ground Pushed in the direction of the chief.

The cat sniffed around the potato chips, and then ran away uninterested. Fu Luoyin had no choice but to get up and walk over, take back the potato chips and waste paper, and throw them away together.

Lin Shuicheng then continued to read the manuscript, and he took note of sinemora's revised comments and references provided, and then tried to improve his own review ideas in accordance with the demonstration ideas in the subsequent review style.

Fu Luoyin saw that he hadn't gotten into the horns anymore, so he felt relieved, and leaned on Lin Shuicheng to fight the landlord.

Lin Shuicheng touched the potato chip bowl, and it was empty.

After Fu Luoyin came back, he only picked out what he had in his hand to eat, and this time there was not a single piece left.

Lin Shuicheng: "..."

He stuffed the empty bowl into Fu Luoyin's hand, said nothing, and continued to read the manuscript.

Fu Luoyin glanced at him, and Lin Shuicheng returned his gaze, staring at him motionless.

Fu Luoyin: "..."

He raised his hand in surrender: "Okay, okay, I'll fry another bowl for you."