How to promote research & publications

I just followed on webinar on promoting research using repositories for preprints + social media. Not that I am stranger to this, but never was truly convinced. I still however check this kind of webinar, to see if new ideas appear (and it did - i learned about PCI).

I am convinced though that the correct way to do it is like this for example

A Maclaurin type inequality | What's new (wordpress.com)

You dont need to do it at Tao level, but even for reviewers, students  or casual readers it would be of immense help. It is actualy better to tweet the blogpost that directly the paper.

PS : the funniest thing about the blog above, is that I noticed just today that it was Tao's. And I am following the updates from 2015 something. 

What not to do when writing a scientific paper.

An excellent post by Pr. R Hyndman about basic rules of journal manuscript rejection. While my research topic are far away form forecasting, it is clear that all rules are directly appliable for Automatic Control in general and Fault Detection and Diagnosis in particular.

So, if you want to succeed in your submission, it is about :

1. Choosing the right journal
2. Providing an up to date bibliography including references and citations from the journal you're submitting to and the best journals around.
3. Contributing new ideas - not "epsilon" developments.
4. Choosing wisely you illustrative experimentations or simulations and comparing your approach to the best works around.
5. Refraining from "obviously" discutable claims - the reviewers are not stupid.

The initial post is here.