This week I learned that rats can emit photons from their eyes, there can be an immortal person-time bias in surgery observations, and that a swimming style can have a colour if you're a synaesthete
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IDK man. It's pretty pointless - everything's already been published once in a wildly accessible format that will get distributed internationally. Plus I have a supplemental table that's something like 200 pages long and requires a CD to be practical at all - my thesis itself is about 185 pages.
Nope. I'm just going to save myself the hassle and NOT do it. The point of a PhD is to get the degree (done!). If the work is published (which it has), great. I can't see any benefit to re-publishing AT ALL. I've been cited a few times which is more of a thrill to me than anything else will ever be - a highly-respected scientist once quoted me at the annual main meeting of the American Society of PLant Biologists. That was awesome (and due to a paper that I published - a book would never get cited in that way).
I feel a little bit like I've had a full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and someone's trying to hand me a cheese sandwich, just in case I didn't have enough.
I suppose I should've tried to explain more clearly to my friend's friend why a paper (so un-cool for being peer reviewed and in a mere journal) is WAY more powerful than a book will ever, in a million years, be.
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Nope. I'm just going to save myself the hassle and NOT do it. The point of a PhD is to get the degree (done!). If the work is published (which it has), great. I can't see any benefit to re-publishing AT ALL. I've been cited a few times which is more of a thrill to me than anything else will ever be - a highly-respected scientist once quoted me at the annual main meeting of the American Society of PLant Biologists. That was awesome (and due to a paper that I published - a book would never get cited in that way).
I feel a little bit like I've had a full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and someone's trying to hand me a cheese sandwich, just in case I didn't have enough.
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I suppose I should've tried to explain more clearly to my friend's friend why a paper (so un-cool for being peer reviewed and in a mere journal) is WAY more powerful than a book will ever, in a million years, be.
Oh well.
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