1/ Demystifying #AcademicTwitter faculty success: When I was a student, I thought about how much work when into my 1st pub and then saw senior faculty with X100 papers and used to get discouraged. Now I know it gets easier to publish. *Not* because you become more efficient

2/ or make better systems (may not even happen). It literally becomes easier. First, as you gain more pubs you gain more literature that supports your arguments. Second, and this is not right so don’t @ me but it’s likely true*, when reviews are not anonymized people see you are

3/ a prof and will be less unduly critical of your work than a student’s. Third and important, you get students who can carry the bulk of work in papers that stops you (formatting references, code not working for that one sensitivity analysis in the appendix, writer’s block).

4/ Fourth, you are more likely to be a co-author on papers led by others. When I was in grad school, I was co-author on papers when I was actively working on group efforts (e.g.; meetings, analyses, etc). It never happened that someone approached me saying “this...”

5/ “paper is almost done but needs X analysis or a section on Y or was inspired by your writing.” All those things have happened to me in the past 4 years. 5) You probably will get (at least a bit) better at writing. 6)Even if you don’t, you get better at anticipating reviewers

6/ and what to avoid/emphasize so they like the paper better. For example, in clinical, if you are talking about a new predictor of X people will want controls for age and sex, even if that doesn’t make sense. Lacking “insider” knowledge like that really slows the review process

7/ Finally, and this is a double-edged sword, you have more control of the writing. If you like OverLeaf better or would rather write methods first or whatever you can do that, no advisors! But also, no advisor safety net I bet there are way more ways I haven’t thought of

8/ But I hope this provides encouragement especially if your first paper encountered a lot of resistance. It gets better. It’s not better every time but, on average!