The Man with No Time

Just a quick post today. I've finally managed to get the last science chapter from my PhD thesis published in an astronomy journal. It's a taken a while - I only worked on it on and off for several months, and it actually needed a fair amount of work done to it. Then the referee had several, really rather useful suggestions for improvements, which held it up a bit more. But as of today it's available online, either from the journal itself or as a preprint on the arXiv. If, for some reason, you're interested, here are the links: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society version arXiv preprint version Happy reading!

The final year of my PhD is now well underway, and I'm currently making good progress with my thesis writing. At the moment I have three chapters that are almost fully drafted, out of the six that I intend to end up with. Of the remaining three two are the introduction and conclusion chapters, so I'm looking in good shape at the moment. I'm deliberately pacing myself with the thesis; at the moment I'm working on the science content of the fourth main chapter, which requires running lots of code for long periods of time, so I've got a lot of time on my hands. (Credit: PhD comics)