Last night I was going over reviews of a paper we would like to publish in a NZ journal. Two of the reviews are fairly positive, and one is quite negative. So I was going through all of the revisions they recommended, and agreeing or not, and making notes. When I got to the negative one, they have referred to a paper I quoted, and talked about their 'Ctrolled mixed pollinations' and their results, and say I have misquoted them. So I got the paper out to check, and it turns out in this particular paper there are no pollinations performed at all. It was a study on seeds collected from the wild. So it is not me that is incorrect - it is the reviewer. This might be really good - if they can't quote papers correctly, it brings into question some of their other points, and questions their credibility. Which will make getting this published in its present form in this Journal easier. I felt positively smug and vindicated.
And seCdly, the new boss has just granted me paid time to work on the thesis - an afternoon off a week until I start taking reduced hours for parental leave. Thats fabulous, because it means I will be at home alone getting something done, and won't feel like I am ruining R's day by making him take the kid out so I can do some writing, which is sometimes how I feel in the weekend. So it will be writing without guilt...
Posted by Toni at February 11, 2004 08:02 AM