Status for September 20

20 Sep 2016

What have I worked on?

rangeShape: have a decent methods sketch. Figured out cophenetic issue. Currently use taxonomy as a proxy for phylogeny for trees and fish, since I couldn’t find a well developed phylogeny for these groups. Hopefully this is okay. Wouldn’t mind dropping this section from the manuscript, but I feel like a reviewer could argue evolutionary relationships could be more important than a trait basis.
rangeLean: discussed project with Robin. Identified some ways forward.
CV: updated CV with some submitted manuscripts.
logistics: beetle stock maintenance and priorityEffects week 4 start.
atom: figured out how to implement spellchecking for a bunch of different document formats. Cool beans.

rangeShape: continue editing introduction and methods sections
- impediments: TRY data request hanging limits what I can proceed with on this project.
rangeLean: examine if/how skewness changes over time for a subset of species. implement a statistical cutoff for including species whose ranges are sampled thoroughly enough.
- impediments: protocol not fully formed. If skewness doesn’t change over time, that’s interesting, but thin. Need to work on a more developed protocol so this doesn’t turn into a fishing expedition.
networkEWS: Spatial Ricker model is not going to have a clean analytic bifurcation threshold. Is there a heuristic measure that can be used instead? Read and think on this. Once this cleared, the code is there. Perhaps sketch out potential manuscript flow.
- impediments: Heuristic measure may not exist, or may simply be a dumb idea. Read some of the spatial EWS stuff done on lattices (e.g., some of Dakos’ stuff).

otherProjects: some projects are back in my hands (or never left), including flatEarth, thresholdDensity, nodeProperties, parasiteRange, and macroHelminth. Start tackling these in approximately the order they are written.
jobs: selectively look around to see if there are other positions that would be a really good fit.