On a daily basis, I receive literally dozens of emails from ‘academic’ publishers and conferences inviting me to submit a paper or speak at their event (for a large fee, of course). For the most part, these invitations are laughably dodgy. However, an email I received in 2016 from Insight Conferences must surely win the prize for the dodgiest invitation ever. Not willing to let such satiric brilliance go unrewarded, I decided that it warranted a like response. Here is the invitation I received and my follow-up responses, which I sent after setting up several Google accounts specifically for the purpose of spamming the spammers.
Disney princesses and academic spam
Disney princesses and academic spam
Disney princesses and academic spam
On a daily basis, I receive literally dozens of emails from ‘academic’ publishers and conferences inviting me to submit a paper or speak at their event (for a large fee, of course). For the most part, these invitations are laughably dodgy. However, an email I received in 2016 from Insight Conferences must surely win the prize for the dodgiest invitation ever. Not willing to let such satiric brilliance go unrewarded, I decided that it warranted a like response. Here is the invitation I received and my follow-up responses, which I sent after setting up several Google accounts specifically for the purpose of spamming the spammers.