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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Blogging in a Busy World: Tips for Keeping Your Readers Engaged
Britteny Watson-Ivey
We live in a fast-paced, busy world, which means most blog readers are distracted long before they land on your site. Here are some tips to keep readers tuned in …
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Are Online Labs a Valuable Distance Learning Experience?
Rachel Yoho, CDP, PhD
Can online labs be a suitable replacement for the traditional lab bench? This may depend on what we consider the goals of the lab course to be.
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It’s Not a One Size Fits All Approach: Best Practices for Engaging Minorities with SCD in Health Research
Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, PhD
World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is an opportunity to call attention to the need for engaging patients in health research.
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Welcome to class, I'm Alana and I'm Queer.
Alana Berry
It felt really liberating, but more than liberating myself, I hoped that my students felt that no matter their identity they felt safe acknowledging them in my class. I want …
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