March Research Thread

[Parasaurolophus]

Onwards and forwards!


March goals:

• Finish Symposium piece (ideally in the first week), turn it into a presentation
• Continue work on translation

Stretch:

• Write new paper for Special Issue 1

I think that the stretch is just about doable if I can get the Symposium piece more or less ready in the next few days/week.


Today, I have to go into town and run infinite errands, so that will throw me off. I'd like to hit my translation quota, and work on the Symposium piece. But I also need to get a lecture ready to record...

[Sun_Worshiper]

March priorities:

• Make progress on book proposal and draft
• Prepare and submit IRB
• Work on proposal for short book project with colleague
• Revise paper #1 and, if possible, resubmit to journal (with colleague, R&R)
• Revise paper #2 and, if possible, submit to new journal (with colleagues, recently rejected)

Backburner projects:

• Paper #3 with colleague (getting this off to a journal will be a priority in April)
• Paper #4 with colleague (submitted to conference)
• Paper #5 with colleagues (ball in colleagues' courts for now)

[darkstarrynight]

March Goals

• Continue data analysis from sabbatical project, prepare conference presentation for end of March
• Finalize library repository
• Get started on writing book now that contract has been signed!!!
• Complete conference proposal and manuscript reviews due in March

[traductio]

Yesterday I learned about a really cool, web-based suite of text-mining software (https://voyant-tools.org/, in case you're curious). I've had to spend all day today reading grad applications and grading papers rather than playing around with this corpus of letters I've been picking apart for a few weeks now. My bribe to myself (I function by bribing myself) is to play around with it this weekend if I can get one section of midterm papers done.

[Sun_Worshiper]

March priorities:

• Make progress on book proposal and draft
• Prepare and submit IRB
• Work on proposal for short book project with colleague
• Revise paper #1 and, if possible, resubmit to journal (with colleague, R&R)
• Revise paper #2 and, if possible, submit to new journal (with colleagues, recently rejected)

Backburner projects:

• Paper #3 with colleague (getting this off to a journal will be a priority in April)
• Paper #4 with colleague (submitted to conference)
• Paper #5 with colleagues (ball in colleagues' courts for now)

The IRB is ready to submit - just waiting for a quick approval and then I can submit.

I also revised my book proposal for the 100th time.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Yesterday I learned about a really cool, web-based suite of text-mining software (https://voyant-tools.org/, in case you're curious). I've had to spend all day today reading grad applications and grading papers rather than playing around with this corpus of letters I've been picking apart for a few weeks now. My bribe to myself (I function by bribing myself) is to play around with it this weekend if I can get one section of midterm papers done.

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing!

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, I have to go into town and run infinite errands, so that will throw me off. I'd like to hit my translation quota, and work on the Symposium piece. But I also need to get a lecture ready to record...

Errands took forever, but at least I finished the lecture and wrote 400 words.

[Parasaurolophus]

The April special issue deadline was extended to June, which buys time but prolongs the agony.

Today, I translate.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, I translate.

Slowly, slowly goes the garden snail.

[darkstarrynight]

The book contract went to the publisher today signed and then the publisher immediately told us it has been acquired. Good times.

[Sun_Worshiper]

March priorities:

• Make progress on book proposal and draft
• Prepare and submit IRB
• Work on proposal for short book project with colleague
• Revise paper #1 and, if possible, resubmit to journal (with colleague, R&R)
• Revise paper #2 and, if possible, submit to new journal (with colleagues, recently rejected)

Backburner projects:

• Paper #3 with colleague (getting this off to a journal will be a priority in April)
• Paper #4 with colleague (submitted to conference)
• Paper #5 with colleagues (ball in colleagues' courts for now)

I did a little work on short book project proposal today.

Tomorrow I'll travel abroad for an intensive workshop. I've gotten all my research projects to a good place to hand them over to coauthors, so now the balls will be in their courts. If I do find any spare time (which is doubtful, especially since I have ~40 midterms to grade), then I'll work on the book draft.

[Parasaurolophus]

The book contract went to the publisher today signed and then the publisher immediately told us it has been acquired. Good times.

Excellent news!

Today: quota and symposium.

[traductio]

The book contract went to the publisher today signed and then the publisher immediately told us it has been acquired. Good times.

Nice!

As for me, I got a bunch of grading done this morning, and I had a long meeting about grad admissions, so now I'm playing around with the text-mining site I found earlier and have been using as a bribe to get through my boring-work this week.

[sinenomine]

Just cleared out old (like, last century!) files so I can re-organize.

Now it's time to tackle an article that's due mid-May, while waiting on page proofs for two others. After that, a conference paper for July is waiting in the wings.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today: quota and symposium.

I think the symposium bit is basically done. I want to work in a bit more work by the person we're honouring, but otherwise it's a fine something to present.