So, I got an interesting email yesterday, from someone I’d met at a conference last year (edited to protect the innocent):

I hear from my supervisor, ..., (just as I have almost finished a poster on my fantastic new catalyst…) that you’ve made the exact same one! (Noooooooooooooo! My only decent result in three years!) Most upsetting, all that work and now I’ve got to present the damn phenoxyimine stuff again. He could have said BEFORE I spent 2 hours typing!

All very exciting. Plan is now to publish a joint paper with her, to save on AcademicBitchFights later. Seems like I’ve made a lot more progress on these systems than she has, I’ve been working on it for longer, and I’ve pushed it further. We’re interested what they’ll bring to the party.

But on the plus side, that does mean that I’m now starting to write my very own paper, which I’m quite excited about. I enjoy writing stuff, and with this topic, I’ve actually got some stuff to say, which is nice :-)

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