April showers = More writing hours

#FakeApril has begun, and it’s brought some rainy days! Time to curl up under my blanket with a cup of chai and get to writing.

March Goals Recap:

DNR:

• I FINISHED THE DNR PAPER (well, sent a clean, full draft to Emma, Brent and Steven)
• Haven’t finalized repository contents, supplemental information, or sent a draft to the other co-authors because writing a discussion took way longer than I anticipated (pretty sure my brain hurt for 3 days straight)

Manchester:

• Finished analyzing gonad histology data
• Completed a preliminary analysis of my larval survival data
• Gave a talk about my Manchester work at NSA! I think it went well.

Virginica:

• I did not set up my analysis pipeline :(

Metaanalysis:

• lol
• I’m just going to go ahead and table this until 1) I submit my DNR paper, 2) I submit my Manchester paper, and 3) Pub-a-thon starts

Other:

• Reading a paper every day doesn’t work for my ability to retain information. I’m more of a “read a fat stack of papers at all once” person. I did go through at least 30-40 papers this month while writing my DNR paper and preparing for my NSA talk!
• Reading and attending NSA 2018 helped me come up with some ideas for next steps!

April Goals:

DNR:

• Send paper to other co-authors for comments
• Combine supplementary information and finalize paper repository
• Submit paper for publication!

Manchester:

• Channel my inner Mac and write an entire paper and submit it in one month

Virginica:

• My C. virginica MBD-Seq data came in! My goal is to set-up the pipeline and begin analyses

Other:

• Write down project ideas for my Ph.D since I now have an NSF GRFP
• Develop our lab’s outreach activity for the SEAS Open House
• Create a lesson plan for the #scicomm lesson I’m leading for the Outreach to Diverse Audiences in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences class I’m co-facilitating