Devin Berg @drb@scholar.social

So this little cutie has been visiting our yard for the last few days just to play and we are trying our best not to make arrangements to bring her home from Perú...

New article out today, "Design and Preliminary Testing of a Continuum Assistive Robotic Manipulator" - https://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/8/4/84

#RobotREU #StoutEngineering #engineering

Finally, after two rejections, this article is going to be published!

Got my first Peruvian haircut. There are some lines and it's a bit uneven but I can't complain for $1.50.

@bgcarlisle
To be honest, the pineapple kind of creeped me out. I think it was the eyes.

Who's this dude with all the toots in my timeline?! Oh wait, @bgcarlisle changed his avatar.

If I get a review request from a journal that recently rejected my own submission, I'm legally allowed to tell them to fuck off, right?

Ugh. Rejection number two for this paper. On to the third submission...

I probably wouldn't bother if it was just me, but my coauthors are undergrads who would like to have a publication on their records.

This is an unfortunate thumbnail photo for the local news story about our new interim Chancellor.

We got to eat potatoes cooked in a huatia. This was in the highlands at about 12,000 feet!

https://video.devinberg.com/videos/watch/acfd5579-aeac-4923-9646-6eb230e259e7

My biggest complaint about living in Peru is that it is a cash based society.

The ATM only gives 50 and 100 sol bills. But almost nobody you deal with on a daily basis has change for those large bills. This means you constantly have to buy some small thing at the larger grocery store (which hopefully has change) just to operate elsewhere.

I much prefer the credit card based system in the US for ease of use.

Why am I searching for how to import a donkey to the United States? Oh, no reason.

These seem legit.

@jorge
People would still be welcome to peer review. They can leave a comment or use Hypothesis.

@jorge
I think a blog could handle most things. A preprint server for when I need to collect things in one place and timestamp them (like an article).

I think I'm about done with publishing in journals all together.

Over the next four nights, my family and I will sleep in three different states and two different countries.