Resting & Reading

Published

March 13, 2026

Plan of the Week: March 9 - 15, 2026

Daily Focus

  • My goal this week has been to rest and figure out some low- effort ways to get back into the work groove without overextending; overdoing it has been prolonging my actual getting down to business.

Plan of the Day

  • Rather than focus on products, I focused on reading and note taking to get back into low- effort work flow that allows for breaks as needed.

Projects Touched Today

  • PhD Proposal
  • Literature Review

Progress Notes

  • My goal today was to work through the literature to support a pivot in chapters 3 and 4 rather than do the deep work on my biomarker manuscript. I was able to clean up some sources, reinforce my historical epigenetics knowledge, and think through some ideas about shifting the lab- based experiment to support (possibly) my earlier biomarker and methylation work.

  • Between medication- induced naps, I was able to go back in time to read about how epigenetics became ‘a thing’ in 1942, came to the marine invertebrate arena re: developmental bio in urchins in 1973, and then be pleasantly reminded that amongst the first marine organism non-embryonic epigenetics work was done by Steven and published in 2010 with Mac. Pretty cool. Even AI can’t make this up! Pretty dope.

Trying to find some base connections between the current work and where I can go within a dissertation and in the mytilus genome - I built out a mindmap that can definitely be expanded, but is a decent start.

Products & Word Count

  • Personal literature notes + mind map above

Today’s total: 0 words

Monthly total to date: 1242 words

Annual total to date: 21,695 words

Tomorrow’s Plan

  • Will be made tomorrow based on how I feel. I expect to continue connecting the history of work with the Mytilus genome and epigenetic mechanisms sans non-coding RNAs.