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• Awesome Things About Life in Research
• 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
• 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 & Awards Bulletin Board
• Stamina, Not Smarts: A Surgeon's Journey to Research Independence
• 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
• 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