Careful little bun, the Sun is hot! (wear oven mittens)

People involved told @francesjones.bsky.social that pulling funding will severely damage the UK’s reputation as a reliable international collaborator and put hundreds of potential jobs in doubt

Another two projects were planned national facilities for electron diffraction and mass spectrometry
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It seems most counter productive—pushing away motivated, talented scientists, blocking the development of the next generation, all in the name of economic growth

Can you introduce me to any?

Yeah, I think adding any new results would be super easy to miss. I'm mostly thinking of missing citations, expanding some discussion, adding an extra line to a plot, fixing a typo in an equation.

It's not too common in my experience. Have your papers always been accepted? There's not as much point in making comments that can't be incorporated into the paper

I was very cautious starting out, and only posted when accepted for my PhD papers. Now I think the extra feedback you get from the arXiv posting is valuable, and can help strengthen the final paper. Of course, most of my papers have already gone through a bit of internal LIGO review before arXiv.