November research

[nonsensical]

Tell us your research goals for November, then check in about how you're doing. Some of us post daily, or nearly so, with updates and support.

This weekend I looked through my inbox, and here are the projects for which people are currently waiting for my feedback:
Senior grad student paper #1 - sent him comments over the weekend
Junior grad student fellowship application
New post-doc fellowship application
Referee report #1
Collaborating grad student paper
Senior grad student paper #2
Senior post-doc paper
R&R on a paper I am leading myself
Referee report #2

Ideally I will finish all of this list this month, but we'll see. How about you?

[mamselle]

Oh, that's right...it's November how.

Hmm...more work on the book chapters.
   Two presentations for the spring that have to be set up for online formats, will start soon to do that.
   Ongoing teaching PowerPoints for music theory/history/appreciation classes to be done weekly.
   
Many, many other projects I'd like to be working on but with teaching and wrapping up the non-profit staff assistance job I can't put more on my plate than that for now.

Just glad to be seeing progress to the degree I am seeing it....have a backlog of research-y things written up that need to be typed in and integrated into the text that is already in place.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

I'm out of deadlines for now, so I'm not sure what November should look like. I guess:

• Get a revamped draft of Co-Authored Paper 1 out there.
• Finish the last touches on Foggy Paper and send it out.
• Work on Rejected Paper or Co-Authored Paper 2?

[darkstarrynight]

November Goals

• Subfield colleague and I are meeting tomorrow to figure out our direction for our study before we start data collection
• Continue second half of rejected paper with co-author and student team (we are meeting on Wednesday) and hopefully finish by end of the year - target journal has been identified!
• Copyedit proofs for two accepted articles due out in 2020 whenever I receive them
• Anticipate hearing some feedback from any of my three manuscripts under review but that may not be until next month at the earliest!

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, in between other things, I will read my friend's paper. It doesn't contribute to my monthly goals, but that's OK--nothing really needs doing this month.

[darkstarrynight]

November Goals

• Subfield colleague and I are meeting tomorrow to figure out our direction for our study before we start data collection
• Continue second half of rejected paper with co-author and student team (we are meeting on Wednesday) and hopefully finish by end of the year - target journal has been identified!
• Copyedit proofs for two accepted articles due out in 2020 whenever I receive them
• Anticipate hearing some feedback from any of my three manuscripts under review but that may not be until next month at the earliest!

Apparently, I cannot read my calendar. I will be meeting with subfield colleague tomorrow, not today. Today is for grading and helping students register for next semester.

[nonsensical]

Junior grad student fellowship application
New post-doc fellowship application
Referee report #1
Collaborating grad student paper

Did all these things today. It's amazing how much I can do on a day when my calendar is free. So this feels like a good start to my month, though depending on how political events turn out, it may be hard for me to get much of anything else done for the rest of the semester.

[darkstarrynight]

Junior grad student fellowship application
New post-doc fellowship application
Referee report #1
Collaborating grad student paper

Did all these things today. It's amazing how much I can do on a day when my calendar is free. So this feels like a good start to my month, though depending on how political events turn out, it may be hard for me to get much of anything else done for the rest of the semester.

High fives! Nicely done. I finished my grading before 2 PM.

[Sun_Worshiper]

November goals:

• Finish R&R #1 and get it out the door
• Start and make progress on R&R #2
• Make progress on ongoing data collection project and accompanying paper (fortunately RAs doing much of the work on this at the moment)

Stretch goals:

• Distribute survey for project with colleagues

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, in between other things, I will read my friend's paper. It doesn't contribute to my monthly goals, but that's OK--nothing really needs doing this month.

Tomorrow will be a busy teaching one, so probably no goals for then.

[nonsensical]

Senior grad student paper #2
Senior post-doc paper

Sent off the first of these papers today. Got halfway through the second one, then stopped because providing comments on this work was frustrating. More tomorrow.

[darkstarrynight]

I had a good meeting with subfield colleague. Hu helped our study get into a good direction. We are going to work on some final tweaks before submitting to IRB.

I also was reminded by a co-author today in a meeting that we have a book chapter draft due mid-January. I sent out a meeting request with the team and encouraged people to put their names next to sections in our outline that they want to write. So there is a little progress on a forgotten project!

[mamselle]

Anybody wanna research an election?

It's awfully quiet here tonight...

M.

[nonsensical]

So it turns out that I did no work at all last night because electoral politics are ... a lot, sometimes. But I did just finish providing comments on the manuscript I started editing on Tuesday, and I've sent those off to the first author of that paper.

[Sun_Worshiper]

I've had trouble concentrating on research (or much of anything else) for the last couple of days because of election stuff, but I managed to wrap up most of the empirical work for an R&R that is due at the end of this month.  Additionally, my RAs are hard at work collecting data for another project and the data is starting to come in, so I'm very happy about that.