Up Your Academic Gift Game - Your Worker Bees Will LOVE This
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Ho, ho, holy cow…it’s the most stressful time of the year. The one where you look at people in your group, realize that they are 20 years younger than …
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"Hi, I'm Alex." Pouya's Story and His Mother's Fears
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The higher education system in the United States is in many ways the envy of the world. For this reason, countless individuals from all corners of the globe leave the …
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Congress Likely to Give NIH $2 Billion Funding Increase
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A federal omnibus spending bill released early today gives a $2 billion funding increase to NIH, the biggest increase in more than 12 years. Scientists, patients and familes have been urged by …
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Nine New Year's Resolutions for Academics
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Think, write, teach, discover and read. These are the things we love and why we joined this great profession, but so many things are in your way and killing your …
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A Grant Submission New Year's Resolution
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Half of us make new year’s resolution, but fewer than 1 in 10 succeed. Many of these resolutions involve getting over a tendency to procrastinate. NIH’s Deputy Director for Extramural …
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From Bench Scientist to Policy Analyst
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Being a principal investigator with tons of grant funding is awesome. But what if it’s not quite for you? Chronicle Vitae recently ran an interview with Dr. Chris Pickett, …
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9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity
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Now that we’re well into the new year, you may find those goals and resolutions you set receding ever further into the future. You need some productivity hacks. Luckily, …
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Getting Evaluated - Time to Bite the Bullet and Ask If You're a Jerk
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Fighty Squirrel recently ran into one of her forest friends from another realm of the academic woodlands who has been serving on a fancy schmancy hiring committee. Asked how things …
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Stop the Slapfest: Why Scientists Need to Step Up in Support of a Cancer Moonshot
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
In the State of the Union address, President Obama challenged scientists with a John F Kennedy-inspired “moonshot” of curing cancer backed by a one billion dollar funding pledge. Obama’s …
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The Rube Goldberg Experiment of Hiring Underrepresented Minorities and Harassment of Women in STEM Must End
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist known for introducing the most complex systems of parts to solve simple problems. Like Zacks Red Bull, Easter egg, Connect Four, locomotive fueled …
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