Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Every Author as First Author

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.

arXiv.org

@blinry Can you embed a GIF in a PDF? You can just make the names shuffle around too if you can.

I like the superposition-vibe of this kind of thing though. 💯

@wiersdorf @blinry Tikz now has an animation feature, so that could be feasible declaratively.