On a day when I am feeling increasingly dismal about the publication prospects of my current project, my mood was not lightened with the arrival of the table of contents for the current issue of a very high impact journal...
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Posted on May 23, 2008 12:21 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dear PhysioProf, You're wrong. Here's why. In the comments on a post about a forth-coming paper and it's possible impacts on my own, you said: Getting completed work out the door should always be at the absolute top of the...
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Posted on April 19, 2008 12:52 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A collaborator just sent me an in press copy of a paper that examines the -ology of my PhD field area. Huh. I think I've just been scooped?!?! I have a paper deriving from the last chapter of my dissertation...
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Posted on April 17, 2008 8:20 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've got a paper almost ready to be submitted. The co-authors are taking one last look, I'm making a few minor changes to figures, and I need to do the final formatting of the references. In order to do that...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 7:20 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This morning, I loaded Minnow into the car, plugged in the iPod and started singing along to the children's songs as we backed out of the driveway. Twenty minutes later I realized that I had completely bypassed Minnow's daycare and...
Posted on April 4, 2008 12:55 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ScienceWoman has her annual review coming up; Alice just had hers. Here's Alice's advice...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 6:15 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Out the door - meaning one I just submitted a revised version of a paper. Yay! Too bad that doesn't actually mean anything for my CV. But maybe I'll get an acceptance before I have to turn in my CV...
Posted on December 17, 2007 3:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Back at the beginning of the month, I boldly announced my intentions to finish all the reviewer comments on a revise-and-resubmit paper. In that post, I calculated that with ~25 comments to address " if I just average one a...
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Posted on November 13, 2007 4:45 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks