Ruth MottramIt's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take.
I had a nearly finished manuscript. I just needed to tidy a few things in it and then upload for review
Two hours tops I told my family.
5.5 hours later...
*Manuscript describes 4 years of work by 5 different Regional Climate Modelling groups over the Arctic and the Antarctic and collectively we produced around 8 Petabytes of #climate model output
Not quite LOTR, but not far off.
Inputting the details of 41 coauthors, at least 10 of whom have moved to other institutes and some of whom have been quite tricky to track down has also not been .. helpful.
Vicomte Folmer af HelvedeAh!
If only it was as easy as " send me your OrcID within two weeks"....
It really shouldn't have to be that much work to give due credit.
Kaare Mikkelsen@folfdk @Ruth_Mottram I had a coauthor change his name between two revisions at one point. That was not a trivial thing to update...
Peter V Rahbek 🇩🇰@Ruth_Mottram "Let's go home, Sam" 🥹
caffetino@Ruth_Mottram the last mile takes the longest! Takes all the joy out of it for me 😄
@caffetino yeah..i find them difficult to read for years after i...
Atanas2 hours to 5.5 hours is not such a big difference. I thought you were going to say 5.5 days...
@Atanas I have been writing it for at least 4 years...
DavidM_yeg“Tidy things up”, “A few odds and ends”, “Crossing the T-s and dotting the I-s” are a collection the most time consuming tasks in the world. That why so many of us procrastinate: so there will be an immutable deadline that makes us just stop at some point.