Now I have to trawl through my dropbox to find my own papers so I can remember what I said in them...

If there's a bibliography, use a reference style that uses initials rather than names, delete dois and urls. Use journal abbreviations if you can.

Words: 'that' can be deleted most of the time 'I argue that x y z' -> 'I argue x y z'

Rephrase 'the x of y' -> y's x

For example -> e.g.

Delete adverbs

If it's page based, turn off widow and orphan control, use indenting rather than line breaks for new paragraphs, and reduce letter spacing a tiny bit.

All of which make things look worse typographically, but arbitrary rules produce poor outcomes...

Yeah I'm guessing they managed to change their mailing list settings, didn't turn into quite the disaster it could have been!

I am nothing if not optimistic about the chances of me having time to finish all my random paper ideas one day in spite of all the prevailing evidence to the contrary 😆

True about the data, but this has rather taken the wind out of the sails of the 'PCC elections don't provide accountability, we should probably get rid of them' framing it would have had...

Thanks Hanna! Hope all is well and the PhD is off to a good start!

Thanks! The plots are mostly due to some earlier procrastination making a little package with custom ggplot themes and palettes + some functions to set geom defaults etc. github.com/drcaprosser/...

Thanks - pleased with those! Font awesome makes getting the icons nice and easy - add this to your header-includes:
- \usepackage{fontawesome5}
And then call the icons as latex, e.g.
author:
- |
Name^[\faUniversity\ Uni name]

Getting them to line up nicely, however, was a massive pain...

Nice, thanks for the code!

That is a cool plot! Presumably gganimate in some form?

Hehe, I'm choosing to believe that someone in the government read this paper and this is why they're doing the policy.

Perhaps you would like to join my new grant bid: 'The impact of restaurants on political attitudes: an autoethnographic approach'