This might be the first time I actually acheived all of my goals. Either I became super productive this month, learned to set reasonable goals, or just didn’t have many of them……..

October Goals Recap:

• I removed bad samples from my dataset after trying lots of different methods, and now I have boxplots characterizing protein expression across different sites and habitats I kind of trust! :relaxed:
• Didn’t make much progress writing since I was mainly troubleshooting my data
• Submitted a NSF GRFP proposal :tada:
• Hosted my first committee meeting! Got most of my paperwork signed, and I’m just waiting for final approval on my proposal so I can turn everything in
• I didn’t make any direct strides to tailoring my WSN presentation, but fixing my analyses is a good start. I also signed up to give a talk at GSS the week before WSN
• Didn’t even touch anything metaanalysis or Manchester related

November Goals:

• Turn in all of my milestone paperwork (Notification of Committe Formation, Plan of Study, Thesis Proposal)
• Present at GSS and WSN
• Have a complete paper draft by the end of the month! :open_mouth:
  • Week 1 (November 1-November 5)
    • GET DATA FROM DNR
      • pH, DO, temperature, salinity, growth
      • See if they have primary productivity data, or if I can get that myself
    • Analyses
      • Enhance SRM pipeline
      • Repeat NMDS/ANOSIM with new dataset
      • See if I can pool eelgrass with bare samples
    • Writing
      • Revise SRM methods
  • Week 2 (November 6-November 12)
    • Analyses
      • Use GIS to show that I have a broad spectrum of conditions between my sites
      • Connect protein expression to environmental data
      • Investigate alternative splicing
      • Use individual as a random effect for analyses
    • Writing
      • Revise DIA results
  • Week 3 (November 13-November 19)
    • Analyses
      • ROC curves
      • Create DIA document
    • Writing
      • Write SRM results
      • Outline Discussion
  • Week 4 (November 20-November 26)
    • Writing
      • Write Discussion
      • Outline Introduction
  • Week 5 (November 27-November 30)
    • Writing
      • Write Introduction
      • Revise manuscript

If you’ll excuse me, I need to get started on that massive to-do list.