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Finally! Data on What Study Section Really Cares About
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
In 2009, NIH revamped their scoring system asking reviewers to provide numbers ranging from 1 (best) to 9 (worst) assessing applications Environment, Investigator, Innovation, Approach, and Significance. NIH has emphasized Innovation (insert jazz …
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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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Awesome stuff at Translational Science 2017
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Translational Science 2017 will happen in Washington, DC, on April 19-21. Why should you care? This meeting includes many sessions specifically geared to early career investigators, such as a mock study …
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Sharing Data May Make It Less Accurate for All of Us
Rebecca Helton, MA
Lots of you work with big data that gets ever bigger. Here’s something to chew on as you add more databases and studies to the pile. [Scientists are] finding …
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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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Buckle Your Seatbelts, Motherf*$%ers...This is How You Start a Grant
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Fighty Squirrel’s ninja-in-training Amy Palubinsky sent me this fabulous bit of prose she found on the interwebs. I absolutely believe all specific aims pages should be at least this …
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A Grant Submission New Year's Resolution
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Half of us make new year’s resolution, but fewer than 1 in 10 succeed. Many of these resolutions involve getting over a tendency to procrastinate. NIH’s Deputy Director for Extramural …
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Exciting AND Consistent? Verbs and Nouns in Scientific Writing
Rebecca Helton, MA
Pop quiz: Which of these sentences is more interesting? 1. We did the experiment, and it was a vivid example of the power of broccoli to make kids gag. 2. We performed …
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Productivity Tip #5: Delegate! What Can A Virtual Assistant Do For You?
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When productivity and management gurus tell you to delegate, do you laugh and say, “Sure, if I had someone to delegate to!” Thanks to the rise of virtual assistants, you …
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