Are Your LGBTQ Trainees Safe: Thoughts on Life Post Orlando
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Today’s massacre in Orlando of unarmed patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando is sickening, stunning and all too personal for many of us in academics. Earlier today, I …
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Unmanaged Time
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Ever feel like most time management advice is, well, crap? So do Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, authors of a recent article in the Chronicle with the provocative title “…
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Scientific Societies Are Failing Academics: Five Ways to Do Better and Get More
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Scientific and medical societies have been in existence for hundreds of years. At their best, they foster communication, collaboration, education and outreach. At their worst, they are slow moving exclusionary …
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Why Your Favorite Journals Need to Put a Dog in the Ethics Fight*
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
There is nothing an journal editor loves more than seeing a late night email from my best friend, Paul Brookes, in their mailbox. Paul is a genius. Well, technically he’…
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More Money in Your (University's) Pocket
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NIH announced that all Institutes will increase their contribution to an awardee’s salary to a base level of $100,000 for K08 and K23 awardees beginning with new applications due on …
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Meditation: It's Not What You Think
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When you read the word “meditation,” what image first comes to mind? A New Yorker Magazine cartoon once depicted two monks in robes, one young, one old, sitting side-by-side, cross-legged …
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Buckle Your Seatbelts, Motherf*$%ers...This is How You Start a Grant
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Fighty Squirrel’s ninja-in-training Amy Palubinsky sent me this fabulous bit of prose she found on the interwebs. I absolutely believe all specific aims pages should be at least this …
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Being Really You and Really Professional on Social Media
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Is there a difference between what you’d post for your colleagues versus what you’d post for your group of close friends? Is censoring yourself on social media difficult …
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FFS: Faculty Dispairty, Violence and Starvation
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I’ve decided to reup my efforts at bringing some important news you might have overlooked this week in a feature known as Forefront Friday Stories (FFS). This week’s …
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Did You Miss It? Big Research Investing and a Decade of DrugMonkey Blog
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
This week’s edition of Friday Fighty Squirrel (FFS) offers a quick glimpse of things you might have missed this week on the interwebs while you were working away on …
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