Paper accepted?
No, Revise and resubmit.
Damn you, reviewers.

Over at Jim Gibbon’s blog (via our dear homeslice C-Mac) there’s a marvellous competition for grad students:

“If you had to boil down the message of a book, article, or dissertation, how concise could you be? Inspired by “The Five Minute Dissertation” and a friend’s comment about rewriting her paper to meet space limitations for a journal, I’m sponsoring a competition for the best haiku poem summarizing original research. The winner, to be judged by readers in online voting, will receive a $10 gift certificate for the iTunes Store.”

We look forward to seeing your years of hard work condensed into a few spare syllables.