I am set to be published earlier than I thought. Sorry Mike, it's not Cetiosauriscus. It's the fruits of one of my MRes projects from four years ago. However, over the years, the other two authors have done much more work on it, and while I think there's some data in there that can be attributed to me, it really is all their hard work. I am grateful to be included on the author list though. Because it's only in the process of being submitted, I'm not going to tell you the title, the journal or the other two authors. I am still so naive about the academic process, and I don't want to do anything to jeopardise the review.
There were no fireworks accompanying the wondrous climax of the "Submit" button. On one (very small and insignificant) level I am sad not to have been involved in the "excitement" of the submission process - I am still none the wiser when it comes to my own submissions (even if the Ornithopoda paper is ready before Cetiosauriscus I'll probably wait until the latter has been submitted just so I've been through the process and know exactly what's expected).
But, it's almost all the other authors' own research (it's not for me to muscle in), and I'm thrilled to bits to see the research dispatched safely to the journal. I have other MRes projects that just aren't publishable, so I'm glad to see that this is good to go. You can be sure I'll be blogging about it once it's been published. Would it be okay at this point to say "Woo yay"?
Woo yay!
I still remember talking about it to another interviewee at Chicago back in 2003. He patiently listened to me telling him about the MRes work, before the ego landed.
Him: "Well, I don't want to make you feel bad at all, but I did all that for fun when I was 13."
Me: "Oh, right. Did you happen to use [X data]?"
Him: "Um, no."
Me: "And did you use the [Y algorithm]?"
Him: "No, I wasn't quite that advanced."
Me: "And did you publish it?"
Him: "No."
Me: "Then I don't feel bad at all!"
Really can't wait to see it in print now! Who thinks I should send the guy above a reprint?
There were no fireworks accompanying the wondrous climax of the "Submit" button. On one (very small and insignificant) level I am sad not to have been involved in the "excitement" of the submission process - I am still none the wiser when it comes to my own submissions (even if the Ornithopoda paper is ready before Cetiosauriscus I'll probably wait until the latter has been submitted just so I've been through the process and know exactly what's expected).
But, it's almost all the other authors' own research (it's not for me to muscle in), and I'm thrilled to bits to see the research dispatched safely to the journal. I have other MRes projects that just aren't publishable, so I'm glad to see that this is good to go. You can be sure I'll be blogging about it once it's been published. Would it be okay at this point to say "Woo yay"?
Woo yay!
I still remember talking about it to another interviewee at Chicago back in 2003. He patiently listened to me telling him about the MRes work, before the ego landed.
Him: "Well, I don't want to make you feel bad at all, but I did all that for fun when I was 13."
Me: "Oh, right. Did you happen to use [X data]?"
Him: "Um, no."
Me: "And did you use the [Y algorithm]?"
Him: "No, I wasn't quite that advanced."
Me: "And did you publish it?"
Him: "No."
Me: "Then I don't feel bad at all!"
Really can't wait to see it in print now! Who thinks I should send the guy above a reprint?
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