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Fighty Squirrel

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Fighty Squirrel

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The Fighty Squirrel is very thin pseud for a molecular and cellular neurobiology type who runs a lab studying neurodegeneration. She is mother to a 14yo half child/half honey badger and 16yo half child/half border collie and a Reviewing Editor at Journal of Neuroscience. She also sort of a badass at air hockey. She speaks for herself unless her employer likes it, in which case it's patented.

Academic Institution:

Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Title

The Fastest Typing Squirrel You Know

Department

Nuts and Twigs

Degrees

PhD
Awe.Some.

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Authored Posts:

  • Don't Row, Steer. A Professor's Four Steps to Deep Work
  • Thank a Congress Critter! Science Budget is a Win for NIH NSF
  • Scientists Help Fund Over $22,000 for Kids STEM with March Madness
  • Angry Academics
  • MARCH MADNESS: Brackets Benefitting STEM Education. Play with Darwin's Balls!
  • A Big Step Forward in Standardizing Rules for Authorship
  • Questions for STEM Profs to Ask Before Filing Taxes
  • NSF Just Made It A Lot Harder for Universities to Harbor Harassers
  • Women: If You Want First Author Publications, Have a Female Boss
  • Summer for Academic Parents: Do It Like a Pro by Preparing Now
  • Valentine's Day Presents for the STEM Love of Your Life
  • Why Aren't More LGBT+ Scientists Out: Student's Question Sparks Debate
  • Reality Check: It's Not Your Data
  • How to Make Your Team Stand Out When Interviewing Prospective Students
  • Multi Year Study Reveals Significant Bias Against Women in Grant Review
  • Year 15 as a PI. Spoiler, It's a Still a Challenge
  • Quick Like Bunnies, Spend $5 Now for a Better Academic New Year
  • TIME Names University Silence Breakers People of the Year
  • Gifts Your STEM Buddies + Lab Friends Really Want This Holiday Season
  • Brene Brown Offers Academics A Thoughtful Way To Do a Reboot
  • Alice Soragni's Hot Takes on Year One of Being a PI
  • NIAAA Steps Up with Great Addiction Outreach Tool
  • Salvage Your Unfunded Grant with an OnPAR Submission
  • Pending Budget Plan Spells Big Trouble for Higher Education
  • Harvard Study Shows Bias, Not Behavior, Is Why Women Aren't Advancing
  • I'm Not Your Mom and Other News About Females in STEM
  • Dear Sen Warren: A Primer on Being a Woman in Science
  • NIH Just Stepped Up (a Bit) to Promote Neuroscience Trainee Diversity
  • Rolling Out Academic Bling for Edge for Scholars Users
  • Handy Guide to Showing PostDoc Appreciation All Year Long
  • NIH Wants to Pay Your Student Loans. Here's How to Make It Easier for Them to Do It.
  • Academic Epidemic: Rochester Sexual Harassment Case Strikes a Nerve as Student Hunger Strike Begins
  • As Rochester's President Digs Deeper in Sexual Harassment Debacle, Students Plan Protests and Hunger Strikes
  • Rochester's Neuroscience Harassment Debacle Gives NIH Director a Chance to Tackle Harassment: Will He Take It?
  • "Psst....Pass Me Those Aims?" How You Can See Everyone's Full Grant Application.
  • Houston Has a Post-Hurricane Science Problem: Here's How You Can Help
  • Profs on Drugs: JAMA Highlights Use of Cognitive Enhancers
  • Shields Up: Being A Science Leader in Tough Times
  • More Bad News on the Greying of NIH PI's
  • Point_Mutation Gives a Master Class in Scientists as Wackaloons.
  • Nature Suggests UK Follow US Lead on Academic Sexual Harassment. Please Don't.
  • Cancel Your Talks: A Way for Academics to Make a Statement Against Hatred
  • What Google and Academia Still Don't Understand About Safety
  • Scientists! Get Those Amazon Prime Deals Now.
  • Radical Candor: Can It Work for Academics?
  • Scientists Career Advice: Seeking No Feedback
  • Donna Webb: Missing Out on a Genius Lunch Buddy
  • Twitter's Scientists Share The Most Awful Sexist Things They Have Experienced
  • Females in Basic Sciences Get Seriously Screwed in Startup Packages. Knowledge is Power, So Plan Your Ask Accordingly.
  • When Polite Isn't Going to Cut It: Calling Out Everyday Sexism at Conferences
  • Google Has a Powerful New Data Playground for PhDs and MDs to Target Patients, Individuals at Risk and Consumer Trends.
  • A Quick Fix for Death by Powerpoint
  • Vexing Issues for New PIs: Picking Corresponding Author, Potential Reviewers, Blacklisting and Other Angst
  • Queer Science Stories Needed 🌈
  • NIH to PIs: In Current Funding Climate, Three R01s Is Enough
  • Neuroscience Pretenure Boot Camp in Seattle? Yes, Please!
  • No Advances in the Last Decade in Closing the STEM Gender Gap
  • Advice for My Graduating Students
  • Academic Reads: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
  • Time Management for Profs Who Hate Time Tracking
  • Glam Journals Whiff Again with More Bad Mentoring and Career Advice
  • Scientists Donate $8,000 to Kids STEM Education With Their March Madness Brackets
  • Popular Young Scientist’s Post on Failure to Get Funding Goes Viral
  • Nature Conspiracy Theories
  • Nature Conspiracy Theories
  • Popular Young Scientist's Post on Failure to Get Funding Goes Viral
  • Go To SLEEP! The Five Things That Happen When You Don't Call It A Night
  • Better Profiles are Coming!
  • Darwins' Balls Update!
  • Translational Newbies: Awesome FREE Advice
  • Sure You're Overcommitted? Here's A Hint...
  • The Hustle You Need to Be Showing
  • The Olympics of Pain: Tag Me Out
  • Tired Reviewer Request: Set Your Models Free!
  • Academics! Play with Darwins' Balls to Fund STEM Education
  • You ARE an Impostor. Six Life Altering Steps to Fix That.
  • Leave Your Island. Career Inspiration from Richard Blanco
  • Dr. Stephen Korn on NINDS Workforce Development
  • Batman and Robin: Woes and Wins in Picking Collaborators
  • Getting Evaluated - Time to Bite the Bullet and Ask If You're a Jerk
  • A Peek Inside Study Section: The Riff Raff Edition
  • Mensches, Mentors and Badasses: My Science Valentines
  • Don't Miss the Deal Breakers: Nine Questions for New Lab Staff Hires
  • Go Pee. Academic Management Lessons I Learned from Audie Cornish.
  • How to Interview the Hell Out of Academic Job Candidates
  • Another Cautionary Tale on "Tailgaiting": Brigham and Women's Interloper Evades Hospital Security
  • It's National Science Meeting Time! Nine Protips on Meeting, Greeting and Getting It Done Like a Rockstar
  • Is Your CV Making You Look Like a Chump?
  • Save Your Sanity the Stanford Way
  • Sunday Long Reads: Alternative Science Facts , Health Disparity Fixes and Winners!
  • Write Like a Boss: Five Minutes to Better Science Writing
  • So You Want to Be On An Editorial Board? Some Protips for That.
  • Finally! Data on What Study Section Really Cares About
  • Nine New Year's Resolutions for Academics
  • Buckle Your Seatbelts, Motherf*$%ers...This is How You Start a Grant
  • Academics, Get Yourself These Five Gifts for a Great New Year
  • Alarming Statistics Reveal Mental Health Crisis in Our STEM and Medical School Trainees
  • Women and URMs, Peer Review Needs You. Here's Why and How to Get On That.
  • Friday Fighty Squirrel's Academic Science News: It Ain't Your Money, Kid
  • You're Never Going to Bounce Back, So Stop Trying: Academic Version
  • Taking Science Personally
  • Walk the Dog: How Writing Every Day Can Make a Project Seem Less Daunting
  • NIH Director, Time to Bring Science to the People American Ninja Warrior Style
  • Community Engagement and the Befuddled Academic
  • Susan Lindquist Drops the Mic and Leaves the Room
  • Up Your Academic Gift Game - Your Worker Bees Will LOVE This
  • Excellent Read for the Optimistic Academic: Give and Take by Adam Grant
  • Bad News About Your Right to Privacy, Faculty
  • Did You Miss It? Big Research Investing and a Decade of DrugMonkey Blog
  • FFS: Faculty Dispairty, Violence and Starvation
  • Why Your Favorite Journals Need to Put a Dog in the Ethics Fight*
  • Scientific Societies Are Failing Academics: Five Ways to Do Better and Get More
  • End of Summer Academic Sanity Saver: Post Undergrad Lab Jobs Now!
  • Are Your LGBTQ Trainees Safe: Thoughts on Life Post Orlando
  • Take a Quick Peek at Your University's Financial Outlook Here
  • If I'm a Minority Recruit, Is It Tacky to Point Out There are No Other Minority Faculty?
  • Medical Woo and the Hidden Toxins that Are (Not) Killing You
  • Doing Better in Academics in Your 40's: You'll Need an Eye Exam for That
  • Titles as a Sign You're Doing It Wrong? A(nother) Weird Conversation via Fighty Squirrel
  • Safer Labs for Thea and Sheri: You Need a Lab Safety Reality Check
  • Updated! March Madness Brackets for STEM Education
  • Microscopes, Butterflies, Owl Puke...And More
  • The Rube Goldberg Experiment of Hiring Underrepresented Minorities and Harassment of Women in STEM Must End
  • Unexpected Perks of Editing for a Journal
  • Stop the Slapfest: Why Scientists Need to Step Up in Support of a Cancer Moonshot
  • Nut Up, Faculty
  • Calm in the Storm: Finding Your Zen at Work
  • Introduction to Medical and Other Ignorance
  • I Don't Think Team Means What You Think It Means
  • Academic Social Media Tangles: The Evolving Tale of Jennifer Berdahl
  • Unicorns-106; Mike Huckabee's DNA Schedule-0
  • Making Lemonade: A Retraction Watch Interview
  • The Land of Monsters
  • I'm Not Saying I'm the Best Mentor Ever, But...
  • A Monday Morning Giggle from The Onion
  • A Sure Fire Way to Know What Your Boss Thinks About You
  • What Folks Want to See on Your Lab Website
  • The Trouble With Girls in Lab
  • Rock and a Hard Place
  • Fraud Busting Bonanza
  • Checking Social Media Phobia for Academic Parents: Awesome Teen Eden Lytle Offers Her Help!
  • I'm Dying a Slow Academic Death and Travel is the Likely Killer
  • Title IX Isn’t Working: Nine Necessary Actions to End Sexual Harassment Culture in STEM
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