You can email them and they are usually quite happy to talk.
Of course not when they get a media storm like these people. But I regularly correspond with experts in adjacent fields who have interesting papers put out.
Of course not when they get a media storm like these people. But I regularly correspond with experts in adjacent fields who have interesting papers put out.
I sometimes get unpublished artefacts (matlab/python/fortran code, data samples) just by... asking nicely, showing interest. And I'm not even in academia or a lab.
I don't remember the paper subject neither the researcher name (more than 20yr ago) but I remember that she was an ornitologist, the subject was quite niche and the response I received to my questions was longer than the article that prompted me to asks them.