June Research Thread

[Parasaurolophus]

I'll try to write up my referee report today, and maybe start in on the R&R.

Wrote and submitted the report.

[Parasaurolophus]

Should do some R&R work today. Not sure what else.

[Parasaurolophus]

Got another R&R this morning, for my special issue submission from early April. Phew! R2 knows a lot about this (obscure) topic, and was excited to talk about it--they'll be easily satisfied. R1 wants the paper that was rejected last week, so that's going to be tough. I don't know that I can really satisfy them.

Today... Just the other R&R, I think. I need to give this one a little time to percolate.

[MarathonRunner]

Finally finished the final formatting of the dissertation (so many rules!) Sent corrections to supervisor last Thursday, meeting this Thursday, hopefully corrections are good so I can deposit this thing and have all my PhD requirements completed.

[eigen]

Trying to balance a lot of different projects this summer.

I've got two pedagogy / DEI grants we've been awarded that I need to make plans for next year for.

I've got two manuscripts and one potential short micropublication that are in various stages of data collection / analysis / writing.

I've got an instrument grant that we need to start collecting quotes and making purchases off of for next year.

And I've got a lab full of undergrads to train / supervise / shepherd in collecting data.

Then on the side I'm trying to develop two new methods (to our lab), retrofit an instrument, and keep up some human tissue culture / microscopy experiments that are beyond what my undergrads can do at the moment to collect some preliminary data for a grant submission this Fall.

And then other various administrative (non-research) tasks.

[Parasaurolophus]

Finally finished the final formatting of the dissertation (so many rules!) Sent corrections to supervisor last Thursday, meeting this Thursday, hopefully corrections are good so I can deposit this thing and have all my PhD requirements completed.

Congratulations!

Today... Just the other R&R, I think. I need to give this one a little time to percolate.

Bit of work on the R&R and the rejected paper.

[darkstarrynight]

Congrats Parasaurolophus and eigen! This is great news! I am at a conference right now and many people are talking about the project I promoted late last week. The word is getting out and the response is very positive!

[Parasaurolophus]

Hoping for a somewhat longer stretch today in which to make progress on the first R&R.

[Parasaurolophus]

Hoping for a somewhat longer stretch today in which to make progress on the first R&R.

Not really longer, but did manage a decent but.

[Wahoo Redux]

Selected sections to polish for written examples.  Done perhaps 1,000 additional words.

Still gathering sources for my strong central thesis, however, and crushed for time to get the reading done.

[Parasaurolophus]

I should work on one of the R&Rs, but I'm not really feeling it.

[MarathonRunner]

I should work on one of the R&Rs, but I'm not really feeling it.

R&Rs can be so tedious. " We thank the reviewer for their insightful question, in response, we have...."

Or "We thank the reviewer for their comment, while we agree that it would be interesting to examine xxxyy, it is beyond the scope of this paper, which seeks to..."

My sympathies. Which reminds me, I have a review to submit. :p

[Parasaurolophus]

I should work on one of the R&Rs, but I'm not really feeling it.

R&Rs can be so tedious. " We thank the reviewer for their insightful question, in response, we have...."

Or "We thank the reviewer for their comment, while we agree that it would be interesting to examine xxxyy, it is beyond the scope of this paper, which seeks to..."

My sympathies. Which reminds me, I have a review to submit. :p

Oh man... it's hard to complain, since I'm always just aiming for the R&R rather than the acceptance, but I really hate dealing with them. It's brutal.

I should work on one of the R&Rs, but I'm not really feeling it.

I worked on the most recent R&R, dealing with three of R2's comments (all relatively small and easily addressed); two more small ones to go, then the bigger one. And then R1, whom I won't be able to please and probably can't really fob off either because the paper has to stick to its current guns if it's to fit in this special issue.

[Parasaurolophus]

I anticipate I may not have a chance to do much today. But if I do, I guess it should be R&R work.

[MarathonRunner]

I should work on one of the R&Rs, but I'm not really feeling it.

R&Rs can be so tedious. " We thank the reviewer for their insightful question, in response, we have...."

Or "We thank the reviewer for their comment, while we agree that it would be interesting to examine xxxyy, it is beyond the scope of this paper, which seeks to..."

My sympathies. Which reminds me, I have a review to submit. :p

Oh man... it's hard to complain, since I'm always just aiming for the R&R rather than the acceptance, but I really hate dealing with them. It's brutal.

I should work on one of the R&Rs, but I'm not really feeling it.

I worked on the most recent R&R, dealing with three of R2's comments (all relatively small and easily addressed); two more small ones to go, then the bigger one. And then R1, whom I won't be able to please and probably can't really fob off either because the paper has to stick to its current guns if it's to fit in this special issue.

All the best! I recently had a reviewer 2 ask me why we used a specific theoretical framework. Umm, because this paper is part of my dissertation that uses this framework? I didn't state it quite so boldly, but even if this framework might not have been the best to examine my research questions, two of the previously published papers provide support for its use, this one might not, so much, and the fourth paper is equivocal. I really wish I could tell reviewers "this is part of a dissertation using x framework to examine y. The results support/don't support the use of this framework, but can provide guidance for future research "

My dissertation is the first to use this framework to examine my issue(although widely used otherwise to examine many differences things).