- EGM complained that "the tide was out" when I handed him the tea I made for him. I guess that means it wasn't full enough. Whatev.
- One of my thesis chapters is very controversial in my sub-subfield. We're hoping to avoid a steel-cage death match by sending it to our "competitor" to review before we submit it for real. Research Advisor wants to do this before Christmas. Can it please happen that quickly? I reallyreallyreally don't want that paper to linger.
- I think I might have a post-doc to start in early spring. Yay! It's still not for sure yet, so more on this later.
- We're going to visit my family for Thanksgiving. I'm really looking forward to it, as I haven't seen nearly enough of my family this year. Friday I'm going to spend the day watching movies with S2. I always spend the day after Thanksgiving with S2, and some years others come along to make it a very intense, yet fun day. I think this year will be very chill.
- Have you seen that show Modern Family? I haven't seen it every week, but from what I have seen, it's hilarious.
- BFF had a death in her family, which makes me sad.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
RBOC
So I had a nice weekend laying around, hanging out with friends, and drinking lots of wine. I now give you bullets.
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If you send your controversial paper to the competitor for 'friendly' review, do you then specify him/her to be included/excluded from the journal's review? It seems like different subfields have very different ideas about this...
Hope you have a lovely time with family for the holiday!
Sorry to hear about BFFs family.
I'm also curious about how the competitor review works. I don't see this happening in my field...
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
That's an interesting approach to a controversial poster! It definitely wouldn't happen in my field, but I believe it's relatively common in, say, physics (based on a conversation of mutual incomprehension with Massimo from Exponential Book).
Yeah, so the idea is to get this guy's approval, and then list him in the acknowledgments so he won't get asked to review. Really, though, it's getting his feedback that's important because then we will be phrasing everything in a way that will be acceptable to his minions, who are likely to be reviewers even if he isn't.
I'll write more about this when it happens.
The competitor idea sounds interesting; I don't think I have seen it in use. And looking forward to hearing more on the post-doc!
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