Your periodic reminder that changing the background color on a document is a great way to make sure you are editing the active document (yes I know you can lock it, but color is sooo easy).
It's always frustrating when reviewers miss an important thing, especially if it's about an investigator (i.e., ME) that seems obvious.
One time I had a comment that the research team should have someone with experience doing language (which I think I've been doing since 2000).
I recently had a comment that the PI (me) did not have experience with fNIRS (I've been doing optical brain imaging since 2012).
BUT, as frustrating as these are, it's also a good reminder that quite often the things we think are obvious to reviewers based on our biosketch or whatever are often not. And it's on us to try to fix that in our grant application, because reviewers will always be over-worked and over-tired etc.
(Also sometimes a reviewer is just an idiot but that's hard to defend against so I try to assume the best and figure out what I can do on my end.)
Your periodic reminder. When you have an old draft and a new draft open at the same time. Make the page color of the old draft different so you don't edit the wrong document. #writing#academia#PILife#Editing
Nice to spend my birthday trying to get university finance to pay for image bank images already funded with a grant before the deadline for the whole project explodes.