Dear Lydia, Matthew, Robert and Javed,

I am pleased to see that your manuscript has received broadly positive reviews, but both have indicated areas for improvement. Both referees have provided clear and constructive comments in that regard, and I would request that you address these in revising your manuscript. I look forward to seeing the revised submission.

Many thanks for your detailed, point-by-point responses to the referee comments. Both referees were broadly positive and encouraging about the paper, though referee 2 in particular requested a series of clarifications which you have supplied. It seems clear that this has been acknowledged as an innovative and challenging communication exercise which makes a useful and self-critical contribution to how we can engage early-career researchers and for this reason I'm happy to accept it for publication, subject to receiving a revised version in which the amendments specified in the response to referees is integrated into the manuscript.

Many thanks for the revised manuscript and for the detailed responses to the referees' comments. I'm grateful for the revisions made in response and I'm happy to confirm that I consider the paper not ready to be published.

Kind regards,

iain

Delighted to publish.