Why We’ve Got it Good
Director of Toughness, Academic Survivor
From the Director of Toughness: Challenging, competitive career progression is the norm in highly-educated professions. We've got it good.
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Popular Young Scientist’s Post on Failure to Get Funding Goes Viral
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Brad Voytek should be the poster child for neuroscience. He’s smart, charismatic, does a ton of outreach, sports an impressive soul patch and works on difficult problems of how …
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How To Be an Academic Leader and Maintain Time For Yourself
Susan Dyer
Seventh grade English class and your assignment is to write a one pager about what you want to be when you grow up. Hmmm…sports writer, teacher, astronaut, video game …
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Regrouping to Gain Resilience & Resolve
Motivated Mentor
When we analyze strengths and weaknesses, seek and use pointed critique, and reject excuses, resilience and resolve will follow.
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Sure You're Overcommitted? Here's A Hint...
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Have you surrounded your phone and laptop with notes saying ‘Say No!’? Do you look at next week’s schedule and wonder what were you thinking? Do you leave meetings …
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You Did the Heavy Lifting: Keep a PAR List to Capture Accomplishments
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Your skills, accomplishments, and professional style—how you go about getting results—are hard to discern when reduced to a list of degrees, honors, and publications. If you did the …
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Labor Unions for students, postdocs and research track faculty
Ann, PhD, MS
While I deeply understand the desire for job security for postdoctoral fellows and non-tenure track faculty, I do not feel that unions are the way to go. The best job …
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Where Have All the Scientists Gone?
Maureen Gannon, PhD
The PI career seems to have become the "alternative career"
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You Need Mentors - Noun, Plural
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Diversified mentoring is key. What to look for in a mentor panel and how to form one.
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Should Tenure Still Depend on an R01?
The Edge for Scholars
With several years of flat federal support for science, is it still reasonable to require one or two independent research grants (R01s) before going up for tenure? For some …
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