Academics Breathe Easier with House NIH 2018 Proposal
Britteny Watson-Ivey
Academics opposed to a White House proposal to cut indirect costs from NIH grants can breath a bit easier. The House of Representatives has rejected the White House’s plan …
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What Google and Academia Still Don't Understand About Safety
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Academics Take Note: Google had to realize the clear parallel of their data to Maslov's Hierarchy of Need. In throwing themselves a self congratulatory parade, they failed to compare their …
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How to Keep Your Trainee Tables So Your Grants Manager Will Love You
Rebecca Helton, MA
The minute you have a trainee, even an undergrad, start tracking these things. Training grant directors and staff will love it if you do it this way.
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Scientists! Get Those Amazon Prime Deals Now.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Amazon has 30 hours of awesome deals for Prime members. If you are a scientist, maybe some of these fun finds will inspire you and your team to further heights of …
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Radical Candor: Can It Work for Academics?
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
With many parallels to the struggles of busy life in academia, Scott's Radical Candor is an excellent read. You can easily finish this book in an evening but it's one …
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Putting Credit Card Benefits to Use During Business Travel
Britteny Watson-Ivey
Everyone has dealt with that 3 hour layover on the way back from a week of business travel. Why not use your credit card perks to make that time in the …
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A Project Management Approach That Works
Rebecca Sappington, PhD
The goal: implement a project management strategy that allows you to easily organize and synthesize data, track progress and strategize. Enter my strategy: the Storyboard!
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Scientists Career Advice: Seeking No Feedback
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Science, NEJM and MBoC recently hosted career advice and thought pieces on life in academia from faculty and trainees. How did they do? Hard to say, none of the posts …
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Three (Grant) Peeves in a Pod: Write Better
Cranky Reviewer
Contorted sentence structure and dense text torture reviewers.
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Donna Webb: Missing Out on a Genius Lunch Buddy
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I thrive on people who are different than I am. And somewhere along the line I came to view myself as too busy to have lunch with anyone. Even the …
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