What follows is an important announcement from your PLB editor.
Given numerous complaints regarding the PLB’s tone and tasteless jokes, the editorial board has decided it is time to change the PLB’s focus completely.
From here on out the PLB will no longer post tongue-in-cheek stories about the trials and tribulations of the Dept. of Psychology. Instead we will focus on leveraging the distributed power of the internet to maximize communication of scientific ideas coming out of the department. Think less The Onion and more Wall Street Journal.
This change in tone may come as a shock to many faithful PLB readers (all 3 of them… Rakison, Holt & Thiessen); however, to reduce potential libel complaints from offended individuals these structural changes were deemed necessary and urgent.
In order to facilitate these changes the PLB will be working with John Anderson’s group to optimize the PLB posting process through their Automated Perceptual Regressive Information Logic and Foundational Open Optimality Learning Systems initiative. Stay tuned for more details.
I see what you did there…
I thought the PLB had been publishing the important intellectual contributions of the department? (Many of which because of their cutting edge nature would be rejected by the more standard conservative journals). Moreover, I expect that you are proposing rejecting further research with Pittsburgh squirrels. This itself has been a unique and important contribution of the PLB. If department members want to disseminate their work to the readers of the internet, let them set up their own blogs. We have more important business here.