July Research!

[Parasaurolophus]

A little R&Ring today.

Fixed a tricky bit.

[Faith786]

July goals:
-1. Update CV to reflect Google Scholar citation count, h-index, and i10 index metrics
-2. Update CV to reflect ResearchGate score
-3. Update CV to reflect Publons review metrics
-4. R&R due July 4 (late!)
-5. read ch. 9 July 10 (late!)
-6. read ch. 10 July 10 (late!)
-7. read ch. 11 July 10 (late!)
-8. email CV to for minor research appointment
-9. add team grant application to CV;
-10. update and email CV for team grant application
-11. write reflection of article #11 for 2021 project
-12. write reflection of article #12 for 2021 project
-13. write reflection of article #13 for 2021 project
-14. Read/review/summarize relevant paper 11. to add to research library for 2021 project
-15. Read/review/summarize relevant paper 12. to add to research library for 2021 project
-16. Read/review/summarize relevant paper 13. to add to research library for 2021 project
-17. respond to email request for Zoom meeting for research collaboration
-18. research discussion July 19
-19. read ch. 12 July 18
-20. read ch. 13 July 18
-21. read ch. 14 July 18
-peer review 2 new papers
-follow up email conference organizers about request for research paper presentation format
-write another page for item #4 (book chapter) due late July 2021 (now at 6,000 words)
-update chart with dates, inclusion/exclusion criteria, sources, references
-summarize timeline chart [drafted in ppt slide], upload p research documents to secure website-make chart 2 with dates, inclusion/exclusion criteria, sources, references

Short-term/ongoing goals:
-Try to stay alive, keep calm, and carry on while COVID-19 seems to be going away (finally!) so that research can continue
-Continue drafting item #4 (book chapter) with reading/review of up-to-date literature
-read, revise and email myself item #5 (s manuscript) and get it down to <20-25 pages

Long-term goals:
-apply for research funding

N(complete)=13

[Myword]

And no one says what subject they are writing...as if it is a secret. Like talking about the weather without mentioning   where?

[mamselle]

And no one says what subject they are writing...as if it is a secret. Like talking about the weather without mentioning   where?

Do you mean on this thread?

This is a pseudonymous forum for a reason.

People aren't likely to want to out themselves for just that reason.

My stuff is more public anyway, so I don't try so hard to mask it, but I strongly respect those who need to.

The point of the thread is to give people a space for accountability in more general terms.

No reason they have to say what they're working on unless they want to.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Nothing today: have to go into town for my second vaccine.

[darkstarrynight]

Successfully led reviewer training today! Otherwise, I have meetings and grading, so tomorrow I get back to the manuscripts in progress.

[Parasaurolophus]

Some emailing needs doing today, and also some work on that August chapter.

[mamselle]

More tiny bits getting done.

Starting to think about scheduling a friends-of-my-work showing of an online Ppt tour in a couple weeks to test-drive what I have and get comments/input.

Also started figuring out next-steps for the mini-stalled manuscript analysis paper: which other MSs to look at, what comparisons to try for, how to frame them, and the 2-3 folks I'll send it to for input.

So...baby steps but they're starting to add up.

M.

[glendower]

I really really don't feel like working, and I really really have to get back to it---I just had a week at an online conference, and then took the weekend off to recover, so it's not that I'm burnt out, I'm just whiny and fussy. I want to talk to a real-life person who will give me a little pep talk. Failing that, I will post here that I'm going to put in at least half an hour on each of the following tasks: work on a spreadsheet; reading ongoing Thing One; language study; writing about what I'm organizing in the spreadsheet.

If you could see your way to cheering me on, that would be very helpful. Thank you.

[mamselle]

I know the feeling of needing a "pep talk!!"

So, consider yourself "pepped!" (Or, "talked!")

Or both.

When I need a breather between students, I've been watching otter films. So here's one for fun, too....a mini-reward always helps.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksfvHa0wKw

And I'll ask for a reciprocal favor, a pat-on-the-back for sending off a mini-editing project for a friend (paid, thankfully they were not in a hurry!) and for finishing a few more slides!

Good on you!

M.

[glendower]

Pat pat! Well done!

Me, well, the computer with big monitor needed to update and restart, so while that was going on I booked a flight (!!) on the laptop, and then I had e-mail from an editor accepting an essay---well, it was already accepted with revisions, but the editor *likes* the revisions, which wound up being so extensive (because I don't know when to quit) that I was afraid they'd after all say "no, this is not what we had in mind," so I am bouncing around in glad relief and still not settling down to work. Maybe I belong on the Vinhale thread. :-)

[darkstarrynight]

My subfield colleague will not use a shared document service so I have to keep passing it back and forth to hu which frustrates me. I revamped the manuscript today and finished the methodology section, then sent it to hu to work on hu's part. Because I was surprisingly efficient with that, I was able to take a look at the latest draft of something I was not expecting! Perhaps last year (cannot remember exactly when), one of my goals on here was to help a friend get an article or two from hu's dissertation. Hu had a third child and switched roles at hu's institution, then moved into a new house during the pandemic. I left hu alone, but got contacted today with a "draft is ready" email. I fixed it up a bit, and it is on the right track for the target journal! That is a little unexpected bonus of the week!

Tomorrow I will get back to the R&R due 9/1. I think I can finalize my sections by Thursday. Onward!

[Parasaurolophus]

Some emailing needs doing today, and also some work on that August chapter.

Done!

[ergative]

Pat pat! Well done!

Me, well, the computer with big monitor needed to update and restart, so while that was going on I booked a flight (!!) on the laptop, and then I had e-mail from an editor accepting an essay---well, it was already accepted with revisions, but the editor *likes* the revisions, which wound up being so extensive (because I don't know when to quit) that I was afraid they'd after all say "no, this is not what we had in mind," so I am bouncing around in glad relief and still not settling down to work. Maybe I belong on the Vinhale thread. :-)

Congratulations! I recently had a paper conditionally accepted subject to adding in a requested analysis. The analysis, hmm, weakened my claims a little bit.  Not a lot, but a little. I spent the next month anxiously avoiding email as much as possible because I just knew, in my heart of hearts, that the editor was going to write back and say, 'well, now that I've seen this . . .'

I started getting anxious the day after I sent in the revisions Of course the editor would look at them immediately and make the decision the next morning! No way would he send it back to the reviewer who had requested the additional analysis, or put in his to-do queue to get to later, or consult the associate editor, who also had to put it in her to-do queue. No I would get that rejection the very next day! Or if not then, the day after.

A month later they accepted the paper and all was well. It's such a relief! I definitely bounced in my seat too.

[ergative]

Spent all day yesterday in meetings, one of which resulted in the need to write a script for one of my students. Which is fine, I guess--it involves practicing a skill I should practice more, and learning a function of the language that I've been intending to spend some time with. But student hasn't sent me the files I need yet, despite gentle nudging, so I guess I just need to buckle down and do my own stuff!

Reviews
Frontiers review
Other Review
Read paper for third review
Write other review

ML project
Design dataset structure
Construct V parameters
Construct M parameters
Construct S parameters
Combine parameters into full set of combinatorial blueprints
Build dataset objects--IN PROGRESS! DEBUGGING THE BLUEPRINTS!

ET project
Look at ancient submission and reviews and start planning revisions.

advising
Write that script