Status for January 27

What did I work on today?

  • fishParasite: Calculated taxonomic distance eigenvectors. Code ready to run. Will start running analysis on home workstation tonight. Code should take approximately 30 hours to finish running.

  • hostRange: still finding that species richness estimators are more accurate when trained on smaller amounts of data. Makes no sense. Potential bug…or it’s just that the number of singletons increases as a function of more data, altering estimator performance. Tried out two different error measures to make sure it wasn’t error metric (running currently)

  • nicheClass: I’m going to pitch a far-flung project looking at niche overlap in parasite species…because why not? Will work on idea dev tonight, and protocol tomorrow.

  • macroHelminth: Corresponded with other authors on the project. Shan’s plot looks solid.

  • tempVar: more experimental prep (hardwater media creation, neonate farming, tube washing, etc.)

What should I be working on tomorrow

  • nicheClass: dev protocol for project

  • macroHelminth: add a bit more meat to introduction, and provide a clearer manuscript skeleton.


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