tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post2989204446597248911..comments2024-03-25T02:33:41.590-05:00Comments on FemaleScienceProfessor: The ChangeFemale Science Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-25733346208503957032009-08-23T21:08:47.741-05:002009-08-23T21:08:47.741-05:00FSP, do you just have to accept it when co-authors...FSP, do you just have to accept it when co-authors cannot look at manuscripts for 3+ weeks?? Have you ever taken the approach of telling them to respond by a certain date?<br /><br />I work in a scoop-sensitive field, and I just don't know what I'd do if people told me to wait that long. <br /><br />I also have to wonder what I'll do when I'm ready to submit a manuscript and my supervisor, who is in charge of ~40 others, takes weeks and weeks to comment. Maybe in lieu of his advice, I can send my manuscript to you and we can go back and forth quickly with revisions? Ha, I'm sure you'd love it. :)Candid Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01722793931639972423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-28108768784803785812009-08-04T23:54:05.281-05:002009-08-04T23:54:05.281-05:00I tend to be calmer, but I'm also a hypocrite....I tend to be calmer, but I'm also a hypocrite. I like it when people get back to me quickly, but I don't always do the same with others. However, I am more likely to respond quickly if I know they will be pushy about it. <br /><br />It doesn't help, though, that I am currently helping to prepare three different proposals, revising a manuscript, helping to prepare another manuscript, and helping a summer student cram a last week's worth of research before he returns home (the poor kid had a summer fraught with software issues and we only just started making progress), all in addition to the research I'd like to be doing. <br /><br />I'm sure I left a few things out. I know that not all of the above activities are getting the attention they deserve, and so my colleagues wait...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251975730093353942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-46563614066169158502009-08-04T18:10:20.294-05:002009-08-04T18:10:20.294-05:00I'm a physicist too but as a dog person, regar...I'm a physicist too but as a dog person, regardless of your research interests I don't know if I could collaborate with a cat person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-10686670149263133612009-08-04T13:05:30.490-05:002009-08-04T13:05:30.490-05:00I'm a bit hyper too, when it comes to work. Lo...I'm a bit hyper too, when it comes to work. Look, if you are not you don't get tenured, that is the bottom line. It selects these kinds of people (perhaps in the past it was different and that is why we still have a lot of dead wood around). In any case, if I work weekends to get a paper in shape, I expect my coauthors to work very quickly after they receive it. Do you really have vacations? My vacation is travel for conferences or talks! Works for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-68289725960442980332009-08-04T00:56:57.137-05:002009-08-04T00:56:57.137-05:00I agree with kamikaze and MsPhD that I'd love ...I agree with kamikaze and MsPhD that I'd love to have a collaborator like you, but in my case that's because I imagine you constantly making jokes about your cats.Charles Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10380218499923073861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-22955463564887172532009-08-03T16:20:18.016-05:002009-08-03T16:20:18.016-05:00this post made me think 3 things.
1. I agree with...this post made me think 3 things.<br /><br />1. I agree with kamikaze. I could only WISH to have collaborators like you. <br /><br />2. Sometimes it is perception. My adviser takes *forever* to get back to me when I ask for revisions, but when it is my turn to put in changes, if I don't do it yesterday I am perceived as being lazy or slow. <br /><br />It's true that I have fewer responsibilities to fewer people, but it's not true that I can move at warp speed (and sometimes unclear to me why I should have to, when I have been waiting for so long when I could have been working more productively all that time?). <br /><br />3. As I'm sure you know, it matters more earlier in your career, and things move faster these days (at least in my field) than they used to. Things are moving exponentially faster than they were when my adviser was where I am in my career (of course my adviser was already a PI at my age, as was typical in those days).Ms.PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06542602867472447035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-53375062239596936582009-08-03T09:18:59.304-05:002009-08-03T09:18:59.304-05:00I read this just after sending a reminder to a for...I read this just after sending a reminder to a former postdoc reminding him about comments on his manuscript. I haven't calmed down yet, though I imagine FSP and I are from roughly the same era. It would be good, as it would likely lower my blood pressure. <br /><br />Mark PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-56821163392411412762009-08-03T08:38:13.066-05:002009-08-03T08:38:13.066-05:00One of the reasons it is no picnic working with me...<i>One of the reasons it is no picnic working with me is that I like to get things done at a somewhat rapid pace that is not always compatible with the workstyles, lifestyles, and priorities of others.</i> <br /><br />This can certainly be a source of irritation, but unless it is completely over the top this is much, much preferable to the opposite. Especially in relation to graduate students or postdocs, where you are in a supervisor position, the worst that can happen is if they feel you don't really take an interest in the work they're supposed to do under your supervision.<br /><br />But of course, the best is to be able to maintain some sort of balance, if nothing else for the sake of your own mental health. ;-)Dr Mhttp://www.mycupoftea.se/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-37786718006993165362009-08-03T07:46:18.760-05:002009-08-03T07:46:18.760-05:00Some things appear to be similar across discipline...Some things appear to be similar across disciplines. I sent a manuscript to a well-respected colleague and he said he would look at it after 5 or 6 weeks. This would be okay with me, except this colleague and his clique knew I was working on another result and scooped me using my ideas. It is customary in my field to offer to collaborate (may be different in other fields). So with every passing day I worry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-39590493621051946592009-08-03T06:19:16.348-05:002009-08-03T06:19:16.348-05:00I'm like that but it seriously drove my summer...I'm like that but it seriously drove my summer job boss, my tutor, mad, as I work rediculously fast.hkukbilingualidiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09347011556987578563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-61381216781263244482009-08-03T01:08:42.629-05:002009-08-03T01:08:42.629-05:00I want a collaborator like you or your colleague :...I want a collaborator like you or your colleague :/kamikazehttp://kazefroken.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-22233338619180660112009-08-03T00:29:03.193-05:002009-08-03T00:29:03.193-05:00I'm impressed by the fact your co-author gave ...I'm impressed by the fact your co-author gave you a date, rather than saying "thanks, I'll get onto it when I can"rjnoreply@blogger.com