Fisher Price My First Publication.

[Kai]

Since I'm no longer anonymous on here, I can finally post about my first publication, which just came out two weeks ago. This is SCIENCE(!), albeit a science of details, an ideographic science if you will. It's natural history as opposed to molecular biology.

Here's a link to the PDF.


And a link to a "press release" on my blog. It was inspired by John Eisen's recent decision to forgo a university press release and blog it instead.

More personally, I feel pretty good about this "achievement". This paper was a long time coming, mostly because of all the revisions and the things asked of me by editors and reviewers, and despite it's short length. I'm pretty happy about getting it published in an open access journal so I can share it freely. This is becoming more and more common, even in traditional print journals; the authors can often pay some extra per page to make the online PDF open access. You are probably all familiar with PLoSOne, and that sort of journal is the way of the future. It's already as influential as Nature or Science, mostly because journalists and the public can freely access the articles as opposed to paying to read them or being on a university system database.

And I feel a little sad because my next pub (coming out in January) is not in an open access journal, so I won't be able to pass the PDF around like I can now, nor could I pay to make it open access. It's also going to be of higher importance than this one, since it concerns a species being considered for federal listing under the Endangered Species Act.

[Triple Zero]

Amazing!! It's short, so I'm going to read it even if I might not understand it completely

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Congratulations! It must feel awesome.

[Telarus]

Congrats Kai. Totally going to check this out.

[Kai]

Amazing!! It's short, so I'm going to read it even if I might not understand it completely

It's really simple, there's no math involved, and it has pictures!  Only a little morphology involved.

[Phox]

Amazing!! It's short, so I'm going to read it even if I might not understand it completely

It's really simple, there's no math involved, and it has pictures!  Only a little morphology involved.

My initial thought was linguistic morphology.

I'm stupid sometimes. 

[Suu]

Congratulations on the publication of your SCIENCE.

I shall take a peek.

[Reginald Ret]

I enjoyed it very much.
Congratulations.

[Kai]

Amazing!! It's short, so I'm going to read it even if I might not understand it completely

It's really simple, there's no math involved, and it has pictures!  Only a little morphology involved.

My initial thought was linguistic morphology.

I'm stupid sometimes. 

Study of structure could be anything. In this case it's bug structure. In your case it's language structure. There wasn't enough context to tell from my statement, but you knowing me, you probably could have guessed. 

[Phox]

Amazing!! It's short, so I'm going to read it even if I might not understand it completely

It's really simple, there's no math involved, and it has pictures!  Only a little morphology involved.

My initial thought was linguistic morphology.

I'm stupid sometimes. 

Study of structure could be anything. In this case it's bug structure. In your case it's language structure. There wasn't enough context to tell from my statement, but you knowing me, you probably could have guessed. 

The funny thing is that, as you know, I already knew what you were talking about. My brain just immediately leaped to linguistic morphology and then applied it to our various discussions of taxonomic language. Which, of course, is not even remotely relevant to what you talk about in your paper. 

[Cuddlefish]

This is so cool, dude! Keep up the good workings n' things!