Pay It Forward Contest Winner
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Paying it forward paid off literally for the winner of our contest to post advice you wish you had known at key points in your career.
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Where Good Ideas Come From
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Which do you think would help the germ of a thought grow into a brilliant idea: Talking about it with others, who have their own sparkling thoughts and brilliant ideas, …
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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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The Emerging Scientist Holiday Gift Guide
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Not sure what book to get for the academic in your life this holiday season? With the huge amount of literature available, it’s often hard to decide what material …
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News: NIH to Balance Sex in Cell and Animal Studies
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In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act required the inclusion of women in NIH-funded clinical research. Today, just over half of NIH-funded clinical-research participants are women. We know much more about the …
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Medical Woo and the Hidden Toxins that Are (Not) Killing You
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Today, the Fighty Squirrel was flipping around Facebook while in the lunch line, when a post from a friend about ‘HIDDEN TOXINS LURKING YOUR FOOD’ came across my screen. We …
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How to Thrive Amid Academic Chaos
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The end of a semester is always hard. Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers advice for taming the chaos. While there’s plenty of literature out there on how to survive during …
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Rock Talk: Recent Data on R21 and R01-Equivalent Grants
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While many think that R21’s are easier to get than R01’s, since fewer researchers compete for them and they require no preliminary data, in fact R21’s are …
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Scientists Donate $8,000 to Kids STEM Education With Their March Madness Brackets
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Scientists start April outreach and engagement strong by raising $8,000 for kids STEM education by playing March Madness brackets with Donors Choose.
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Why you should read The Opposable Mind
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For fifteen years prior to this book’s publication, author Roger Martin studied successful leaders, interviewing more than fifty of them for up to eight hours at a time, trying …
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