It& #39;s hard to describe what it means to me to see my 1st paper officially published. Even when it was accepted I couldn& #39;t quite believe it was real until the ink dried (digitally). This work has been such a wild ride, and I have had to fight every step of the way of this project.

At my qualifying exam I was told that the idea was fake and that I needed to immediately drop the project. But I persisted and continued finding interesting results. A lot got left on the cutting room floor, but the annals of miscellanea and errata is not a journal as of rn https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß">

I was told by superiors that the work was boring and not worth spending time on--the reviewers disagreed! I& #39;ve been criticized over and over again my entire PhD, and it is humbling to have my work published---let alone in a broad journal!

The work isn& #39;t perfect, as nothing is. There is a lot more I wish I could& #39;ve done, but you have to tie up the publishable unit somewhere. I& #39;m just grateful that my work exists in the body of human knowledge, and hope that others can build on it :D

For fun, here is the TOC we *wanted* to publish. Maybe a little less professional, but I love it and hope y& #39;all can enjoy it too

And it& #39;s important for me to say that I& #39;m building on a lot of important work from many groups, which I did my best to cite liberally (hence... Long ref list) so that they can be acknowledged. Not all of it got the recognition it deserved.