Save Your Sanity the Stanford Way
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
“A lot of times you feel that work doesn’t care about you. ‘I’m just doing the grind, and what for? I’m missing out on my family and …
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Captain Your Own Ship
Motivated Mentor
Mentors don't choose for you. Mentors are not your personal decider-on-call. Mentors are not the captain of you ship. You are.
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Scientists Planning Protest March on Washington
McL Neuro
Not even a week into the job, Trump has brought the ire of scientists with gag orders.
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Nine New Year's Resolutions for Academics
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Think, write, teach, discover and read. These are the things we love and why we joined this great profession, but so many things are in your way and killing your …
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Live Beneath Your Means
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
“I don’t want to miss the details of the resurrection. You always said becoming a division head would happen over your dead body, what gives?” After some warm-up, the …
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The 125 Hour Work Week
The Edge for Scholars
Recently, if you listened hard enough, you could hear the collective sob of well-read junior scientists as Science Careers posted a commentary from Eleftherios P. Diamandis. Dr. Diamandis attributed his …
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Know the Vital Players in Your Career: Tenure-Track Peers
The Edge for Scholars
An assistant professor in the social sciences once described a group of tenure-track colleagues in his department as “the lamenting society.” Once a week they met for lunch to complain …
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From Advisee to Peer
The Edge for Scholars
Question: A friend of mine and I were talking today about what it’s like to be newly minted Ph.D.’s, working on our first jobs. We became more …
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Midcareer Mentoring
Rebecca Helton, MA
Much has been written about how much time an assistant professor should spend on “service” work and what types of service might be important for career advancement, as opposed to …
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On Motivation
Rebecca Helton, MA
Consider that according to a Gallup study only 29% of people in the U.S. are fully engaged in the work that we do. The personal and organizational impact of this …
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