Publications: one source of truth

Bibliographic facts live in one file, used by both the CV and this website:

~/Code/latex/application/shared/publications.bib     <-- edit papers HERE

The CV (~/Code/latex) reads it directly via biblatex. This website can’t run a BibTeX plugin on GitHub Pages, so sync_publications.py copies the canonical BibTeX into each _publications/*.md instead.

Workflow when a paper changes (new DOI, title, author, or a new paper)

1. Edit the entry in publications.bib.
2. Sync this site:

   python3 tools/sync_publications.py            # dry run — shows what would change
   python3 tools/sync_publications.py --write     # apply
   

3. Rebuild the CV:

   cd ~/Code/latex/application && make cv
   

4. Commit both repos.

What the sync does

• Writes the bibtex: block of every _publications/*.md verbatim from the matching .bib entry (matched by cite-key, minus the CV-only keywords line). This is the copy that used to drift.
• Reports (never overwrites) when a .md’s display title: or authors: differs from the .bib — because those are curated for the web (full titles, <span class="me"> highlighting, occasional “et al.” on long lists). Fix whichever side is actually wrong. Cosmetic-only differences (HTML entities vs Unicode, en-dash vs hyphen) are ignored.
• Leaves every other field (venue, date, teaser, featured, links, permalink) exactly as-is.

The .bib path can be overridden with PUBLICATIONS_BIB=/path/to/publications.bib.