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  • Spring into Action: Time to Write Your Grant
  • Your Next Grant in Bloom
  • Getting Expectations in Line with an Online Mentoring Agreement
  • You've Got Things to Say: Upcoming Themes
  • Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
  • Your June Grant in Bloom
  • You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But It’s Worth a Try
  • Modernizing Clinical Trial Design & Analysis to Improve Efficiency & Flexibility
  • Mentoring Roundup: What to Consider When Selecting a Research Mentor
  • The Crosswalk Model: Mentoring and Diversity
  • Feather Your Nest: Best Academic Life Hacks & Advice Blog Contest
  • Overheard at Ground Level: Fresh Brewed Mentoring
  • Present Less Better: Part 3
  • Present Less Better: Part 2
  • Present Less Better: Part 1
  • Visual Communication for Scientists
  • Recommended Summer Reads: 2021
  • Changes to NIH Biosketch and Other Support
  • 2021 Edge for Scholars Photography Contest: Caregiving
  • How to Use a Scientific/Medical Writer for Your Papers
  • How to Use a Scientific/Medical Writer for Grants
  • Best Practices When Working with a Medical Writer
  • Advice from a Journal Editor
  • Biggest Mistakes When Working with a Medical Writer
  • Lights. Camera. Network. #VirtualConferenceSeason Tips Contest
  • Your Digital Academic Brand
  • Microaffirmations
  • Celebrating Team Wins
  • Not That Kind of Tale: Roundup for the Academic Job Season
  • Behavioral and Social Determinants of Health in the Era of Precision Medicine
  • Growing Opportunities: Research Funding Bulletin Board
  • Stamina, Not Smarts: A Surgeon's Journey to Research Independence
  • Knock Your Next Grant Out of the Park
  • One-Minute Writing Repairs
  • Civil Discourse as a Path to Hearing Others' Hopes & Fears
  • How to Leverage the NRMNetwork during COVID19~ Stay connected with VIDEO!
  • NISS/Merck Meetup: Bayesian Statistics in Drug Development
  • Stress Management & Self-Care for Scientists: During COVID-19 & Beyond
  • More Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Wrote My K
  • For Mentors: A Mental Health Discussion with NIH OITE
  • Strategies and Tools for Dealing with Stress During The Coronavirus Pandemic
  • OLAW: COVID-19 Pandemic Response Resources and FAQs for Animal Care and Use Programs - April 8, 2020
  • How Remote Teams Can Connect Meaningfully | Simon Sinek
  • NIH: Responding to FAQ on Flexibilities during COVID-19 - March 26, 2020
  • NIH: COVID-19 Resources for Applicants & Recipients of NIH Funding - March 13, 2020
  • OLAW: Pandemic Contingency Planning and Its Impact on Animal Care - March 19, 2020
  • Take Care with Case Studies
  • Writing Your K or CDA Progress Report
  • Pay It Forward Contest Winner
  • Wheels Up: Conference Season Tips Contest
  • Game On: Join Kaizen to Score Rigor, Reproducibility & Transparency Training Points
  • Getting Stuff Done with Edge Accountability Groups
  • Vanderbilt Inside Scoop
  • Vanderbilt Inside Scoop
  • Insider Tip for Translational Science 2020
  • Before Shouting from the Rooftops, Wait for the Evidence
  • New Edge Conversation Underway
  • Engage Readers Quickly with the Skim Test
  • How Study Section Works (and Why You Need to Know)
  • NIH Offers New Type of K99/R00
  • Coming Soon: Biostatistics Action & Adventure
  • Pay It Forward with a Prize
  • Grant Pacing Workshop for February 2023 Submissions
  • The Role of Translational Scientists
  • Join the Conversations Online Book Club
  • Join the Conversations Online Book Club
  • Designing Your Career
  • Like It or Not, You're a Negotiator: Getting to Yes
  • Creating a New Mentor-Mentee Action Plan: MMAP
  • How Not to Blow an Interview
  • Mapping the Path for a K or R Submission
  • Disobedient Squirrel: An Interview with BethAnn McLaughlin
  • Losing Control of the Plan
  • Finding Your Perfect Postdoc Experience
  • Four Steps to Bust Unconscious Bias
  • Why You Want to Mentor via NRMN Guided Virtual Mentorships
  • How to Get a K24
  • Insider Tip for Translational Science 2019
  • WIN-WIN: Best Academic Life Hacks and Advice Blog Contest
  • Assistant Professor - Your First Year
  • Productive Professor or Foibling Faculty? Starting Your New Academic Position Right
  • The Shadow of the Thalidomide Tragedy
  • ESSENTIALISM by Greg McKeown | Animated CORE Message
  • Conveying Institutional Support
  • Indirect Costs 101
  • What Is Bias, and What Can Medical Professionals Do to Address It?
  • What Are Preprints?
  • How to Fix the Exhausted Brain
  • NAS President Addresses Report on Sexual Harassment
  • My Biggest Job Mistakes as a PhD
  • 5 Step Guide To Successful Networking At In-Person Events
  • Is a Scientific Career Predictable?
  • Advice for Young Scientists
  • My Philosophy for a Happy Life
  • Why Academics Should Use Social Media
  • What One Piece of Advice Would You Give an Early Career Researcher?
  • How to Start Your Presentation: 4 Step Formula for a Killer Intro
  • How to Make a Video Abstract for Your Next Journal Article
  • How to Write a Literature Review
  • Conducting a Systematic Literature Review
  • Top Ten Productivity Tips on Delegating Your Procrastination
  • Is There a Reproducibility Crisis in Science?
  • 11 Tips to Increase your Writing Productivity
  • ASSIST Preparing Submitting Tracking Your NIH Application
  • The Conversation: How To Get A Grant, part I
  • R01 Grants: Navigating NIH Peer Review
  • Top Ten Productivity Tips for More Productive Writing, Revising & Editing
  • Leadership Tutorial: Using Positive Power and Politics
  • Business Skills Tutorial: Effective Communication
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
  • Delegation Tutorial: Coaching Your People
  • NIH Human Subjects Information Using Grants.gov Workspace
  • Life as a Scientist, a Woman’s Perspective
  • E.O. Wilson: Advice to Young Scientists
  • How to Present an Academic Research Poster
  • Making a Better Research Poster
  • Productivity Tips on Time Management for Academics - Teaching & Research
  • Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR): The Importance of Ethics, Whistleblowing, and Mentoring
  • How to Chart a Successful Research Career
  • Top Tips for Early Career Researchers about Open Access
  • 7 Habits of Successful Early Career Researchers
  • What I Wish I’d Known Before I Wrote My K
  • Brené Brown on Empathy
  • Now Playing: Edge Video Vault
  • WIN-WIN: Best Academic Life Hacks and Advice Blog Contest WINNER!
  • Attending Translational Science 2018? Get Your Social Media Bling Here
  • What Makes R Different?
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • Submitting Your Manuscript
  • How to Use NIH Matchmaker
  • The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • How to Be Innovative in Your NIH Grant Proposal
  • Getting Stuck in the Negatives (and How to Get Unstuck)
  • How to Learn Faster
  • What Do You Do When They Say "No"?
  • Sharks & Female Scientists: More Alike than You Think
  • Applications Open for Innovation Lab on Lifestyle Interventions that Last
  • How to Register for Translational Science 2018
  • Clinical Trial and Human Research Rules for NIH Proposals
  • Brené Brown on the Power of Vulnerability
  • Who Are You Really Talking to When You Write a Grant?
  • WIN-WIN: Best Academic Life Hacks and Advice Blog Contest
  • Beyond the Lab: Interview with Dr. Nikki Cheng, Associate Professor of Pathology
  • Beyond the Lab: Interview with Dr. Harold Olivey, Assistant Professor of Biology
  • Beyond the Lab: Interview with Puck Ohi, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
  • How Much Data from Tables Should be Presented in Text?
  • A Manuscript's Journey from Submission to Publication
  • Editing: Things they don't tell you about what journal editors want
  • Tips from a Journal Editor: How to select a journal for your paper?
  • Selecting a Suitable Target Journal for your Manuscript
  • Structure of a Research Paper
  • What You Should Expect from Mentors
  • 1,000 Awesome Things About Life in Research
  • 5 Ways to Improve the RCR Section of Your K
  • Writing in Academia: An Interview with Helen Sword
  • Innovation Lab for Early Career Researchers: Radical Solutions to the Opioid Misuse Epidemic
  • What's a BATNA?
  • Watch Words: Go Slow
  • Summer Reading: What's Popular in the Edge Library
  • Men's Health "and" or "vs" Women's Health?
  • Be Edgetastic
  • Speed Mentoring: Seven Steps to a Successful Session
  • Drug Development Externships with Eli Lilly
  • Meet the March Edgy Winners!
  • What Do You Want a Nanocourse On?
  • Three Irish Scientists You Should Know
  • Match Day Memories
  • Two Lifechanging Words: "Thank You" Instead of "I'm Sorry"
  • Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
  • Disseminating Evidence to Improve Community Health - Applications due April 10!
  • 8 Reasons I Accepted Your Article
  • Become an NIH Loan Repayment Program Ambassador
  • Profiles Are Here!
  • Good News, Everyone!
  • Spring Conference Season Essentials
  • Should Tenure Still Depend on an R01?
  • Acing Your Observational Research Aims
  • 8 Ways to Get an R01
  • Early Career Researcher Travel Grants
  • Revising Your R01? There's Free Online Coaching for That, and You Should Get It.
  • Connecting with The Edge
  • Writing for 2018? It's sooner than you think. You need a workshop. (Mentors, you can also COACH a workshop!)
  • Love It? Share It!
  • The Joke's on You
  • The Recruitment Tool You Didn’t Know You Have
  • Why You Should Read The Creative Habit
  • Who Are You Really Talking To?
  • Healthcare Communication Fellowship Applications Now Open
  • Productivity Tip #7: Reclaim Your Meeting
  • Peer Behind the Study Section Curtain
  • Lucky Duck Award Winners and Another Chance to Win!
  • Productivity Tip #6: I'm Not Telling You to Lie
  • Welcome Career Development Awardees!
  • Got Profile?
  • Awesome stuff at Translational Science 2017
  • A Grant Submission New Year's Resolution
  • Productivity Tip #5: Delegate! What Can A Virtual Assistant Do For You?
  • Desk Guide for Scientists: Working with Media
  • The Key to Getting Motivated: Give Up
  • Collected Links on Busyness, Boundaries, and Balance
  • Why you should read The Opposable Mind
  • The 125 Hour Work Week
  • 5 Ways to Instantly Appear More Confident
  • Know the Vital Players in Your Career: Tenure-Track Peers
  • Scientists and Clinicians: PR is Not a Four Letter Word
  • From Advisee to Peer
  • Pearls of Wisdom from Study Section Members
  • $5.4 Million to Help Early Career Physician Scientist Facing Extraprofessional Demands
  • The Emerging Scientist Holiday Gift Guide
  • NIH Loan Repayment Deadline Extended
  • Hate Small Talk? These 5 Questions Will Help You Work Any Room
  • Open Season: NIH Loan Repayment Program
  • Being Really You and Really Professional on Social Media
  • Meditation: It's Not What You Think
  • Unmanaged Time
  • Lessons in Leadership: Why You Should Read Colin Powell's It Worked For Me
  • Where Good Ideas Come From
  • Six Sacrifices You Shouldn't Make for Work
  • 9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity
  • From Bench Scientist to Policy Analyst
  • Congress Likely to Give NIH $2 Billion Funding Increase
  • "Hi, I'm Alex." Pouya's Story and His Mother's Fears
  • Nifty Things from Open Mike
  • I'm the Problem: My Generation's Addiction to Bibliometrics
  • Detouring Around the IRB: New Regulations from HHS
  • A Fussy, Stubborn and Unreasonable Woman: The Contributions of Frances Kelsey to Safety and Science
  • Myers Briggs Made Useful: Academic Edition
  • Rock Talk: Recent Data on R21 and R01-Equivalent Grants
  • Change Your Default Meeting Time
  • Do You Have Mysterious Dragons in Your Research?
  • The Dirty Truth: Passion Isn't the Only Ingredient for Success
  • News: NIH Awards $31 Million to Enhance Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce
  • NIH News: New Webinars Connect Applicants to NIH Peer Review Experts
  • Productivity Tip #2: How to Set Up Your Desk for Your Best Day at Work
  • Interruptions Are Even Worse Than We Thought
  • Rock Talk: How Do Multiple-PI Applications Fare?
  • NIH News: New Genomic Data Sharing Policy
  • Office Hours in the Pool Hall
  • Job Seekers, Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Getting Over Procrastination
  • Reclaiming To-Do Lists
  • Random Reflections on Getting Published
  • Win Over an Opponent by Asking for Advice
  • Writing Environments
  • Rock Talk: Biosketch Changes and New Efforts to Maximize Fairness in Peer Review
  • The First Days of a New Tenure-Track Faculty Job
  • 57 Ways to Sign Off on an Email
  • The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life
  • News: Major Change to NIH Resubmission Policy
  • Personal or Family Photographs in Professional Presentations
  • How to Thrive Amid Academic Chaos
  • Working Hard Does NOT Mean Success (at Grants or Anything Else)
  • Why You Should Work from a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have an Office
  • Rock Talk: NIH Recovers a Significant Portion of Funds Lost Due to Sequestration
  • Rock Talk: Comparing Success Rates, Award Rates, and Funding Rates
  • Productivity Tip #1: Have More Meetings (But Keep Them Short)
  • Why We All Need More Sleep (Really!)
  • Jewels from Rock Talk
  • Peering into Peer Review
  • How to Talk to People Who Don't Want to Talk to You
  • Rock Talk: How Long Is an R01
  • The I in Team
  • How to Be Polite
  • Author, Author, Who's Got the Author?
  • Link: "Good" Hard vs. "Bad" Hard
  • Link of the Week: NIH Paylines & Resources
  • Sock Drawer as Professional Metaphor
  • Science's Creativity Crisis: Learning to Innovate
  • News: NIH to Balance Sex in Cell and Animal Studies
  • Rock Talk: Application Success Rates Decline in 2013
  • More Money in Your (University's) Pocket
  • The Cool Professor
  • Do More Great Work
  • Network and Hone Your Skills at the 2015 Translational Science Meeting
  • New NIH Biosketch Format Required Starting January 25, 2015
  • Building Your First Lab: Tips, Success Stories, and How to Build Your Own Team
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