Want to see how an astrophysics paper is happening in fast forward? Here you go!
That was the last paper of my own PhD and my PhD advisor made the movie to visualize how the scientific writing process happens. 1/5
That was the last paper of my own PhD and my PhD advisor made the movie to visualize how the scientific writing process happens. 1/5
[Movie description: series of screenshots showing 14 pages of an astrophysicsts paper, starting with only writing & two plots on the first page, constantly growing, with changing and increasing numbers of plots]. 2/5
The important thing here is that everything is in flux, until the last moment. Figures change and move around. Text gets added and re-structured, everywhere. In short: paper writing is not a linear process. 3/5
I love showing this video to any students who start working with me: people are often paralyzed when they need to write something for the first time, because they expect to immediately produce the final text. 4/5
I myself often start with chaotic bullet points and sentences like "we found this cool thing that is super important because blubb" that will later get expanded into a paragraph of actual science 😅
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And since people are talking about showing this to their students: please go ahead, but please also reference it to me @vicgrinberg and my PhD advisor, Prof. Dr. J. Wilms of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ;)
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