Hi all!
Thinking about this year, and one of the only career things Iâm proud of is that my paper got chosen as the winner of the Ecography E4 challenge.
But we often donât see *how* papers come together! I just wanted to share in case it helped anyone, because it was hard
https://twitter.com/austinrspence/status/1324748966970478593
Thinking about this year, and one of the only career things Iâm proud of is that my paper got chosen as the winner of the Ecography E4 challenge.
But we often donât see *how* papers come together! I just wanted to share in case it helped anyone, because it was hard

This was one of @mwtingley and myâs first ideas in 2015(!) - and Morgan helped me get it through one of my classes in grad school.
The paper, that was published in 2020!, was 5 years later and completely different than the original!!
The paper, that was published in 2020!, was 5 years later and completely different than the original!!
It took me a lot of time to learn about both the material and how to write a review. It was literally the hardest paper Iâve ever written.
The review process took 11 months with a âreject and resubmitâ, âmajor revisionsâ, and âminor revisionsâ and I also cried at several points
I literally learned about so much - from why itâs hard to invade the deep sea to how birds fly in the Himalayas. But the reviewers helped make it better and Morgan helped me so much to get the paper out.
Iâm telling this to say that I worked on one (1!) paper for the majority of my PhD, and it might be the only published paper when I graduate. Itâs hard! Nobody talks about how hard it is. But you got this and I hope all the grad students are doing okay
