machine-envy

I had another paper published. Its a brief version of the final chapter of my thesis, which was presented by my supervisor at the integrative bionformatics workshop. The frustrating thing about this is that the reviewers of my thesis considered it the most interesting part. Yet every single peer review it got thought it not worthy of being published. Where it has ended up, it even seems to slip under pubmed’s radar. Yet other less interesting chapters have ended up in more respected publications.

Novelty is a difficult thing to appreciate with out a lot of time (not that I’m claiming this is relativity or anything). The reviewers of the thesis had a much longer chapter than a typical paper referee. Yet they still came in to the viva saying ‘wtf is this?’ After a bit they seemed to get it. Perhaps I’m just bad at explaining myself on paper.