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So after being rejected from Nature once (see previous post). We decided to re-organize the manuscript, try some new experiments, and resubmit somewhere else. During these preparations, (and a month after the initial rejection) we receive this email.
Dear Dr Jasper
Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled "Redox regulation by Nrf2 is critical for stem cell quiescence in the Drosophila midgut" to Nature. I am pleased to tell you that we are sending your paper out for review.
We will be in touch again as soon as we have received comments from our reviewers.
Yours sincerely
J------ K-----
Editorial Assistant, Nature
Tel: +1 415 4xx 9xxx
Fax: +1 415 7xx 3xxx
Email: nature@------.com
For N------ D-W---
Senior Editor
Nature
I'm not getting my hopes up because I'm certain the paper will be trashed. I'm basing this on a review that my colleague received from his submitted paper. We're sensing that people are growing tired of the deluge of papers on intestinal stem cells recently. And also people seem to really HATE the word quiescence, and the fact that it is in my title is not good!! But it is certainly nice to have my research under review at Nature journals. I'm just scared that when the reviews come back, they might be so bad that I'll cry :p
My fellowship application also got scored recently which is exciting. I got a 35. It's out of 100, but I have no idea what this means. At least it got a score. Some applications get triaged, where they don't even bother to review it, so I'm happy I at least have a chance. Now I just have to wait some more and figure out what percentile I'm in. Then I'll wait some more and figure out what the Aging institute's budget is to see if I can get funded.
In spite of all this promising news, I feel like I haven't really been accomplishing much recently. All my experiments are negative results, and it's really frustrating. How is it possible to spend two years on a project and still not know what the hell is going on? Sometimes I wonder if this is science life, or if I'm just a bad scientist.
oh well. it's freaking saturday night, I should not be sitting around thinking about science/work. I'm out.
Dear Dr Jasper
Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled "Redox regulation by Nrf2 is critical for stem cell quiescence in the Drosophila midgut" to Nature. I am pleased to tell you that we are sending your paper out for review.
We will be in touch again as soon as we have received comments from our reviewers.
Yours sincerely
J------ K-----
Editorial Assistant, Nature
Tel: +1 415 4xx 9xxx
Fax: +1 415 7xx 3xxx
Email: nature@------.com
For N------ D-W---
Senior Editor
Nature
I'm not getting my hopes up because I'm certain the paper will be trashed. I'm basing this on a review that my colleague received from his submitted paper. We're sensing that people are growing tired of the deluge of papers on intestinal stem cells recently. And also people seem to really HATE the word quiescence, and the fact that it is in my title is not good!! But it is certainly nice to have my research under review at Nature journals. I'm just scared that when the reviews come back, they might be so bad that I'll cry :p
My fellowship application also got scored recently which is exciting. I got a 35. It's out of 100, but I have no idea what this means. At least it got a score. Some applications get triaged, where they don't even bother to review it, so I'm happy I at least have a chance. Now I just have to wait some more and figure out what percentile I'm in. Then I'll wait some more and figure out what the Aging institute's budget is to see if I can get funded.
In spite of all this promising news, I feel like I haven't really been accomplishing much recently. All my experiments are negative results, and it's really frustrating. How is it possible to spend two years on a project and still not know what the hell is going on? Sometimes I wonder if this is science life, or if I'm just a bad scientist.
oh well. it's freaking saturday night, I should not be sitting around thinking about science/work. I'm out.