Lee Cronin

I don't normally get emotional about papers, but, um, it's not about giving it up because we want to get it published because we want the glory or anything. It's just like, why don't you understand? And so, um, So what I would just try to be as rational as possible and say, yeah, you didn't like it. Tell me why. And then, sorry, let me see. Silly.

Never get emotional about papers normally, but I think what we did, you just compressed like five years of angst from this.

Never get emotional about papers normally, but I think what we did, you just compressed like five years of angst from this.

Never get emotional about papers normally, but I think what we did, you just compressed like five years of angst from this.

not just rough it's like it happened you know i came up with the assembly equation you know remote from sarah in arizona and the people sfi i felt like i was a mad person like you know the guy in depicted in in a in a beautiful mind he was just like not not the actual genius part but just the yeah

not just rough it's like it happened you know i came up with the assembly equation you know remote from sarah in arizona and the people sfi i felt like i was a mad person like you know the guy in depicted in in a in a beautiful mind he was just like not not the actual genius part but just the yeah

not just rough it's like it happened you know i came up with the assembly equation you know remote from sarah in arizona and the people sfi i felt like i was a mad person like you know the guy in depicted in in a in a beautiful mind he was just like not not the actual genius part but just the yeah

because i kept writing expanded and i have no mathematical ability oh and i was expand i was making these mathematical expansions where i kept seeing the same motif again i was like oh i think this is a copy number the same string is coming again again again i kept i couldn't do the math and then i realized the copy number fell out of the equation and everything collapsed down i was like oh that works kind of so we submitted the paper and then when it was

because i kept writing expanded and i have no mathematical ability oh and i was expand i was making these mathematical expansions where i kept seeing the same motif again i was like oh i think this is a copy number the same string is coming again again again i kept i couldn't do the math and then i realized the copy number fell out of the equation and everything collapsed down i was like oh that works kind of so we submitted the paper and then when it was

because i kept writing expanded and i have no mathematical ability oh and i was expand i was making these mathematical expansions where i kept seeing the same motif again i was like oh i think this is a copy number the same string is coming again again again i kept i couldn't do the math and then i realized the copy number fell out of the equation and everything collapsed down i was like oh that works kind of so we submitted the paper and then when it was

almost accepted, right? The mass spec one. And it was astrobiologists said, great. You know, a mass spectroscopist said, great. And the chemist went, nonsense, like biggest pile of nonsense ever, fraud, you know? And I was like, but why fraud? And they just said, just because. And I was like, well, and so, and I could not convince the editor in this case.

almost accepted, right? The mass spec one. And it was astrobiologists said, great. You know, a mass spectroscopist said, great. And the chemist went, nonsense, like biggest pile of nonsense ever, fraud, you know? And I was like, but why fraud? And they just said, just because. And I was like, well, and so, and I could not convince the editor in this case.

almost accepted, right? The mass spec one. And it was astrobiologists said, great. You know, a mass spectroscopist said, great. And the chemist went, nonsense, like biggest pile of nonsense ever, fraud, you know? And I was like, but why fraud? And they just said, just because. And I was like, well, and so, and I could not convince the editor in this case.

The editor was just so pissed off because they see it as like a kind of, you know, you're wasting my time. And I would not give up. I wrote, I went and dissected, you know, all the parts. And I think, although, I mean, I got upset about it, you know, it was kind of embarrassing actually, but I guess. Beautiful. Yeah. But it was just trying to understand why they didn't like it.

The editor was just so pissed off because they see it as like a kind of, you know, you're wasting my time. And I would not give up. I wrote, I went and dissected, you know, all the parts. And I think, although, I mean, I got upset about it, you know, it was kind of embarrassing actually, but I guess. Beautiful. Yeah. But it was just trying to understand why they didn't like it.

The editor was just so pissed off because they see it as like a kind of, you know, you're wasting my time. And I would not give up. I wrote, I went and dissected, you know, all the parts. And I think, although, I mean, I got upset about it, you know, it was kind of embarrassing actually, but I guess. Beautiful. Yeah. But it was just trying to understand why they didn't like it.

So part of me was like really devastated and a part of me was super excited because I'm like, huh, they can't tell me why I'm wrong. And this kind of goes back to, you know, when I was at school, I was in a kind of learning difficulties class and I kept going to the teacher and say, you know,

So part of me was like really devastated and a part of me was super excited because I'm like, huh, they can't tell me why I'm wrong. And this kind of goes back to, you know, when I was at school, I was in a kind of learning difficulties class and I kept going to the teacher and say, you know,

So part of me was like really devastated and a part of me was super excited because I'm like, huh, they can't tell me why I'm wrong. And this kind of goes back to, you know, when I was at school, I was in a kind of learning difficulties class and I kept going to the teacher and say, you know,

you know how what do i do today to prove i'm smart and they were like nothing you can't i was like give me a job you know give me something to do give me a job to do something to do as we um and i kind of felt like that a bit when i was arguing with the and not arguing there's no ad hominem i wasn't telling the editor they were idiots or anything like this or the the reviewers i kept it strictly like factual and all i did is i just kept knocking it down bit by bit by bit by bit by bit