Saturday, June 13, 2026
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Chapter 5 · On the Day After a Rejection · 4 min read
The Weather

A working breeze crosses the research desk: 0 funding entries, 5 journal updates, and 0 job notices are visible. 0 deadlines are close enough to require attention before longer plans settle into place.

Daily reading for June 13, 2026
This Week in Research — June 13, 2026

This week: the International Science Council published a statement on research integrity in the age of AI-assisted writing. It is measured and practical rather than alarmist. The Royal Society of Chemistry opened a new grant scheme for mid-career researchers transitioning to independence. Three universities posted tenure-track positions in interdisciplinary fields this week — the job descriptions are worth reading as models of how to write for candidates who do not fit neatly into one department. A special issue on replication studies is open at a major journal; the editorial explicitly welcomes null results.

An independent research companion

The week arrives with drafts on one side of the desk and decisions on the other.

I study

Journals, funding calls, and academic positions. No noise. No upsell. Just the work.

This Week's Dispatches

From the index
This week's prompt

Twelve stuck points. Twelve instruments. Select one that matches where you are.

The Lens The Compositor The Architect The Clerk The Reviewer The Translator The Respondent The Envoy The Dictaphone The Drawer The Provisioner The Index
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Journals

Find a Journal

Fifty-nine verified open-access journals across eight disciplines. Your Correspondent maps the constellation around your paper.

Updated Jun 13
Funding

Secure Funding

Twelve active calls from major international funders, with deadlines tracked in real time. Your Correspondent writes you a dispatch.

Next deadline in 47 days
Positions

Advance Your Career

Fifteen academic positions at leading institutions. Your Correspondent reads your background and sends wire items you can trust.

15 institutions
The Workshop

The Workshop

Twelve instruments for work you already know how to do. Each one runs in your browser. Free. Private by design. Select one from the bench.

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The Ledger

Your personal research journal. Save journals, funding calls, and positions. Track deadlines. Annotate as you go. The Almanac remembers so you can think.

Open Your Ledger

Use the Ledger from journals, funding calls, positions, fit checks, and Workshop outputs where there is a specific item worth tracking.

PLOS ONE — open submission

Saved Mar 15 · ISSN 1932-6203

Good fit for the methods paper. APC: $1,695.

ERC Starting Grant 2026

Deadline passed · Eligibility: 2-7 years post-PhD

Not eligible

Nature Sustainability

Saved Apr 2 · ISSN 2398-9629

Check scope match before drafting.

Wellcome Investigator Award

Deadline: Jun 30, 2026

Drafting

Field Notes

Short excerpts from recent notes in the Library

Field Note

On the Day After a Rejection

A rejection does not take the paper away from you. It changes your relationship to the paper. This field note explains what to do the day after a rejection and why the first task is not revision.

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Field Note

The Footnote That Belongs in the Main Text

Some footnotes are not asides. They contain qualifications, objections, methods, or theoretical claims that the paper depends on. This field note explains how to identify the footnotes that should be moved into the main text.

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Choose how you use the Bench

Four ways to work. No comparison tables. The reader decides.