Simple Steps to Validating and Managing Others: A Bedtime Story
Julia Phillippi, PhD
You may be scoffing at finding time to read, but let’s face it, if you want to reach the next level you have to reach for it purposefully.
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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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Two Lifechanging Words: "Thank You" Instead of "I'm Sorry"
The Edge for Scholars
This is an amazing way to flip the script from making a mistake to creating a positive connection with another person.
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Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
The Edge for Scholars
Don’t let your lab’s fortunes sink like the Titanic, to borrow the opening simile from The Progress Principle. Read this book instead and find out how to facilitate …
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The Hierarchy of Learning
Reed Omary, MD
Is there an aspirational hierarchy of learning, one that might lead to a 10-fold gain in learning over traditional efforts?
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Can You (Really) Do Your Proposed Study?
Durango Kid, PhD
…a deceptively simple question that can be interpreted in several ways.
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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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The Olympics of Pain: Tag Me Out
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow. Skiing. Here’s a list partial list of of things I won’t be doing: Writing letters of recommendation. Reading a fellow’s application …
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Tired Reviewer Request: Set Your Models Free!
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I just completed my thirty gazillionth study section and find myself hoping some trainees turned PIs out there will heed one bit of hard-won wisdom. Your model? The one where …
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Academics! Play with Darwins' Balls to Fund STEM Education
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Do your March Madness Bracket to benefit STEM projects for middle schoolers! We've raised $11,000 in 5 years. Let's make this year baller!
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