Sock Drawer as Professional Metaphor
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“During this year’s winter break, however, I discovered a book that I hope will change my life. Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art …
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Rock Talk: New Funding Opportunities with a Focus on Workforce Diversity
Rebecca Helton, MA
The biomedical research enterprise relies on engaging talented researchers from all groups, including individuals from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research. As I described earlier here on the blog, NIH …
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Science's Creativity Crisis: Learning to Innovate
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“Are you as innovative as you want to be? Although eight of 10 respondents in a poll of thousands of workers from the United States, Europe, and Japan in 2012 said creativity …
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News: NIH to Balance Sex in Cell and Animal Studies
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In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act required the inclusion of women in NIH-funded clinical research. Today, just over half of NIH-funded clinical-research participants are women. We know much more about the …
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Rock Talk: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Rebecca Helton, MA
“This certainly has been a tough year for the research community supported by NIH. We started off the year on a continuing resolution with the threat of sequester looming. In …
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Rock Talk: Application Success Rates Decline in 2013
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Now we have the numbers to show this. In FY2013 we made 8,310 competing RPG awards, 722 fewer than in FY2012. This puts the overall research project grant (RPG) success rate at 16.8%, …
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I'm Dying a Slow Academic Death and Travel is the Likely Killer
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I have been to 2 countries, 8 cities, 3 giant meetings, and given 17 talks in 4 months. And, no, I’m not looking for a job. I have two more cities in the next …
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Note to Self
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
Grants are awarded to institutions. My research is oddly enough not attached to me. Case in point: The Superior Court of San Diego has issued an injunction to block transition …
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More Money in Your (University's) Pocket
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NIH announced that all Institutes will increase their contribution to an awardee’s salary to a base level of $100,000 for K08 and K23 awardees beginning with new applications due on …
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Title IX Isn’t Working: Nine Necessary Actions to End Sexual Harassment Culture in STEM
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Imagine your lab throws you a party for your upcoming wedding. Fun, right? Now imagine your boss handing you a large, vivid and anatomically distinctive sex toy. At the University …
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