September Research

[Sun_Worshiper]

You know what to do...

My goals:

• Revise paper #1 (recently rejected) and get it back out
• Make progress on paper #2 - possibly split it into two papers
• Make progress on invited book chapter
• Write and pitch op-ed
• Work on data collection project - mostly this means managing my RA
• Think about two book ideas and about drafting proposals

I also have a paper with colleague on the backburner, but doubt I'll have time to work on it (colleague is too busy to be interested and I'm not sure where to go with it).

[mamselle]

More slides finished today; I can now go through 3/4 of the deck without anything but a few date look-ups to be fixed.

Article--still needs more work.

Former N/P job, a few things to do, still...bank still hasn't finished the transfer so there's still editing, etc. to be done.

Editing on a friend's article is on hold, they just got out of the hospital with a non-Covid infection, home recovering, so open time on that.

Goals are to finish the article and the ppt, get the latter housed online somewhere, maybe set up a teaching sequence with it; article has a home, but needs to be in final shape before it's sent out.

N/P is a floating deadline, it will get done when all the other stars converge to make an actual constellation. Or a galaxy. Or whatever.

M.

[rota1234]

September goals:

1. Finish and submit new article that is almost written (based in part on a course previously taught).
2. Draft conference paper (preliminary research and notes almost complete, which is part of book chapter in the works).
3. Revise as much of book chapter 3 as possible.
4. Finish and submit R and R on journal article.

Right now:
1. is 70% there.
2. I have lots of notes written and a solid thesis.
3. Not started.
4. Working on it this week.

[Parasaurolophus]

More modest goals this month. I absolutely have to achieve them all.

Regular:

• Finish August Chapter (now September Chapter)
• Write up Collaboration 3
• Write this referee report
• Prepare and give conference presentation

Stretch:

• Anything else

But I can only stretch when I'm done with the other stuff!

[darkstarrynight]

Yesterday I met with my student research assistants to plan how to begin our big project. Today I had a mention in a daily email summarizing top news in the field, linked to my "lay language" article that also came out today! That was a good start to my day.

Goals

• Get started on major project activities with student research assistants
• Work on presentation for conference in early October based on already submitted manuscript
• Finish review of article from journal
• Wait for decisions of manuscripts under review

I might think of more later, but I will start with this. Let's go September!

[mythbuster]

I'm on sabbatical this semester and it's killing my motivation. So I'm hoping checking in here on the regular will help.

My goals for this month are
1. Submit paper of grad student #1's work. This paper is actually represents years of work by a host of my students, and I worry it's now a permanently affixed to my desk it's been there so long!
2. Outline plan for next grant submission- need to determine if NIH or USDA is a better fit for these ideas as well.
3. Revise the lit review paper from Grad student #2.

Where I am now:
1. Grad student #1 just sent me her draft of the discussion section. So I now get to streamline and glue the parts together. I'm hoping to get this done in the next week,
2. Need to go digging on the USDA site and email my contact there
3. Not until Paper #1 is done!

I'll be back soon to hopefully report progress.

[Parasaurolophus]

I don't have much work energy for today, so I'll work on the paper I have to referee.

[mamselle]

Finished a short commentary I'd promised awhile back and forgotten about.

Feels good to be done, in any case!

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

I don't have much work energy for today, so I'll work on the paper I have to referee.

Read it. It makes the same sloppy error everyone does due to inattention to detail.

This particular one drives me nuts. I challenged a bigwig on it during two conference presentations, but they just didn't get it.

Like, you're talking about a precisely-delimited mathematical concept, and you're conflating something else entirely with it. It's a pretty big deal. Along the lines of forgetting that the inner angles of a triangle have to add up to 180 degrees, so calling all three-sided figures triangles.

[mamselle]

Except, don't the interior angles of all (closed) three-sided figures have to add up to 180 degrees because of the opposite interior angles that result when parallel lines are drawn against them at each of the three points, and Angle-Side-Angle congruences?

M. (who thinks she remembers that much geometry, although possibly not a lot more...)

[Parasaurolophus]

Except, don't the interior angles of all (closed) three-sided figures have to add up to 180 degrees because of the opposite interior angles that result when parallel lines are drawn against them at each of the three points, and Angle-Side-Angle congruences?

M. (who thinks she remembers that much geometry, although possibly not a lot more...)

Yeah, terrible brainfart example. I was thinking of spherical and hyperbolic geometry, where you get weird triangles that don't add up to 180. But that's not quite what came out of my mouth /fingers!

Edit: Although I should add that you can have non-triangle three-sided figures. They just aren't polygons. (My analogy above still isn't great, though.)

[mamselle]

'S ok.

I was just thinking maybe I'd gone to bed and woken up in a non-Euclidian world and figured I'd better get my axioms straight...

;--》

M.

[sinenomine]

I have a book chapter due in November, so this month I need to tackle the resources I've gathered but haven't read so I can start outlining and drafting.

[Puget]

Late to the party, but here we go:

1. Big collaborative paper: final round of revisions and finally submit the sucker
2. Grad student #2's R&R #2 revisions (today!)
3. Recently graduated student's R&R revisions (next week when she gets them to me)
4. Get recently graduated student's other paper submitted (bug co-authors to get us their comments)
5. Get grad student #1's R&R resubmitted (bug her about progress on this)
6. Get CSS paper submitted (bug grad student #1 about discussion draft progress)
7. Start new paper with favorite collaborator and her student

That's a lot, but other than #1, a lot of it consists of management rather than actual writing on my part. We'll see.

[Parasaurolophus]

I may not have much time to do stuff today, so I'll just work on writing up that referee report when and if I get the chance.

I just got the verdict back on August R&R: rejection (without comments). That's the first time it's happened to me, and it's a little frustrating, given how much work I put into it, how vague the referees were initially, how much addressing their concerns added to the word count, that this comes just one week  after resubmission (I doubt they bothered to read the changed bits), and that there are no further comments. But oh well. I'll submit it somewhere else later today. *grumble*