October Research

[Puget]

Holy crap, the good-but-probably-not-quite-good-enough-score-to-be-funded grant may actually get funded. I'm still being wildly defensively pessimistic about this (and haven't told anyone IRL except my senior mentor in the department), but we've been asked to submit human subjects and data sharing agreement stuff, which are good signs. At any rate this this has scrambled my work, as I need to hustle with my awesome MPI on this to get those in. Luckily everything else is mostly out with coauthors or being worked on by the grad students right now.

[mamselle]

Woo-hoo!!

Good for you, hope it does indeed go through.

As Octo used to say, "All tentacles crossed..." (oh, wait, no, she always pointed out octopuses have arms....)

Well, anyway, good luck!

M.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Goals for the month:

• Finish turning around paper #1 (R&R of short commentary piece)
• Keep chipping away at paper #2 (try to get full rough draft together)
• Get paper #3 off the ground (meeting with co-author in about ten days to put together outline)
• Keep chipping away at invited book chapter (try to get full rough draft together)
• Continue to make progress on ongoing data collection project (mostly by managing RA)
• Think about new projects, including possible book projects

[Parasaurolophus]

Gonna do a tiny last bit of writing this morning, then I'm taking a break from research until Monday or Tuesday.

[Parasaurolophus]

Gonna do a tiny last bit of writing this morning, then I'm taking a break from research until Monday or Tuesday.

Managed about 600 words. They're not very good, but hey.

[mamselle]

Got more tweaks in on the abstract, and more work on the Ppt edits.

Teaching all day tomorrow, but have all day Saturday open for getting (maybe) all the Ppt edits in and done, and doing more on the Intro chapter.

Slow by slow...

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Did some extra C3 reading while the hatchling napped.

[Wahoo Redux]

R&R is taking much longer than I had hoped.  Can I power through with the amount of grading I've got to do and the care needed to help with my very ill MIL?

I'm trying to make it work!

[Sun_Worshiper]

Goals for the month:

• Finish turning around paper #1 (R&R of short commentary piece)
• Keep chipping away at paper #2 (try to get full rough draft together)
• Get paper #3 off the ground (meeting with co-author in about ten days to put together outline)
• Keep chipping away at invited book chapter (try to get full rough draft together)
• Continue to make progress on ongoing data collection project (mostly by managing RA)
• Think about new projects, including possible book projects

I finished a draft of the book chapter yesterday. I need to lengthen it a bit (maybe 1500 words) and I have a few ideas about how to do that, but it isn't due until January so I think I'll put it away for a couple of months and come back later with fresh eyes.

Paper #2 is also coming together. My co-author has to add her parts now and it will be largely up to her whether we have a draft together by the end of the month (it should be doable, but I'm not sure how busy she is with other things at the moment). The results are interesting and very robust and so I'm optimistic that we will land it in a top journal.

Next week my teaching obligation will increase substantially, so research won't get as much attention until December. The last five months have been a marathon of data analysis/writing/submitting/revising, and so I won't shifting some of my attention away from it for a couple of months.

[darkstarrynight]

Though today is October, I did finish some goals from September today: submitting conference presentation slides and completing a manuscript review.

October Goals

• Continue working on long-term project with student research assistants
• Get started on book chapter edits due 12/1 with two collaborators
• Work on rejected manuscript revision with colleague and student
• After conference presentation, take feedback from discussant and audience and revise manuscript, then submit to a journal

The conference presentation went well yesterday and the discussant feedback is very helpful. I met with my coauthor after to discuss some target journals. We hope to submit the manuscript before the end of the year. I also worked on the book chapter edits that are due 12/1 before I left for the conference last week. I talked to the book editor at the conference in person about getting an extension on my other chapter's copyedits. Hu gave us the extension, so I will try to get those done this week since I have to run them by my three coauthors for that piece.

[rota1234]

Last week was decently productive, although I spent most of my writing time on journal article 1 and on job market materials.

Journal article one is approaching its final form (at least for submission), but I have found a theoretical pathway to address that adds to the argument. It's requiring more secondary reading/citations and may slow submission to the end of the month.

Goals for the week of October 10:

1. Finish journal article and submit (hopefully by mid month but end of month would be acceptable).
2. Finish conference paper (only a few more days of work on this).
3. Finish revisions on book chapter (I need to ramp up this task this week).
4. Continue research/begin drafting new journal article (I'm getting excited to dive into this one).
5. Begin revising next book chapter by adding one new primary source, seeking out new secondary material on that source, and tightening up the writing/structure (I haven't even started this yet).
6. Continue applying for jobs.

[mamselle]

Keep typing.

Keep editing.

In forwarding an article-in-process, that stalled out awhile ago, to a friend, I discovered some new things that have come out since then, so there might be more grist for the mill there.

But, one-thing-at-a-time, I think, first two things first.

M.

[rota1234]

I received a new R/R for another journal article, so that will go at or near the top of the list for the week.

[darkstarrynight]

Congrats, rota1234! Several months ago I helped a friend with converting hu's dissertation into an article. We identified a journal and met today to review final edits and submission guidelines. Hu insisted on adding me as an author which is totally unnecessary but it is cool to be part of hu's project! I am touched.

[Sun_Worshiper]

I received a new R/R for another journal article, so that will go at or near the top of the list for the week.

Great news. Congrats!