{"id":3310,"date":"2018-10-19T05:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2018-10-19T05:11:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:11:09","slug":"resource-of-the-week-stephen-heard-on-why-we-should-all-have-a-publication-power-of-attorney-lined-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2018\/10\/19\/resource-of-the-week-stephen-heard-on-why-we-should-all-have-a-publication-power-of-attorney-lined-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: Stephen Heard on why we should all have a &#8220;publication power-of-attorney&#8221; lined up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3311\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3311\" class=\"wp-image-3311 size-large img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/07\/Capture-1024x732.png\" alt='Screenshot of \"Scientist Sees Squirrel\" website, which includes site title, tagline \"Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting.\" as well as a banner image of the author (from the back\/left) looking out into a scene of hills, trees, and a snow-covered mountain.' width=\"730\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/07\/Capture-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/07\/Capture-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/07\/Capture-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/07\/Capture-1200x858.png 1200w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/07\/Capture.png 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: screenshot of post<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a thought-provoking post about a problem few of us likely consider, Dr. Stephen Heard encourages us all to establish a power-of-attorney authorizing co-authors to proceed with publishing if we are unavailable (but not dead).<\/p>\n<p>He writes, \u201cIf a coauthor is unavailable for a few weeks, there\u2019s rarely any harm in simply waiting for their return. However, when unavailability is open-ended or stretches beyond a month or two, it can matter much more. In particular, delaying even a single paper by a few months could damage career prospects for an early-career scientist coming onto the job market, applying for a first big grant, or coming up for tenure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full post, including a template for your own power-of-attorney assignment statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/12\/the-publication-power-of-attorney-and-why-you-should-have-one\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thought-provoking post about a problem few of us likely consider, Dr. Stephen Heard encourages us all to establish a power-of-attorney authorizing co-authors to proceed with publishing if we are unavailable (but not dead). He writes, \u201cIf a coauthor is unavailable for a few weeks, there\u2019s rarely any harm in simply waiting for their return. However, when unavailability is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16],"tags":[53,81,109,114],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-blog-post","tag-handy-links","tag-professional-advice","tag-resource-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}