Guidelines & Disclaimers

The Edge for Scholars is an open blog site. We encourage candid, but civil, conversation.  Our moderators have broad discretion to remove comments and remove or edit posts that violate our Terms of Service or the rules below.  Repeated violations will get a user banned.

Community Standards

Stay on topic  We are a career development website for biomedical researchers, so posts and links about topics like mentoring, networking, grant strategy, writing, teaching, and other things in our tags are encouraged.

Have a point  Don’t just repost links or announcements. Say something about them that encourages discussion.

Be courteous  Don’t insult, troll, or flame other users.  We tell it like it is, but we aren’t gratuitously offensive.

Only post images that are in the public domain or for which you hold the copyright  If you don’t have a good image for your post, use the default images or let our moderators come up with one.

Disclaimers

Because Edge for Scholars is an open website, please remember, views and opinions expressed in posts and comments are the author(s) and not those of The Edge or affiliated institutions.

Authors are encouraged to carefully check accuracy of content and to update key factual information or links as needed. We strive for accuracy in all materials posted by Edge for Scholars but 1) people are human and make mistakes, and 2) things change.

Please exert your natural skepticism, check facts and deadlines, and confirm key details via independent sources if you intend to rely on them for key decisions or other actions.

We are not responsible for (but are very jazzed about) the content or how it is applied by you or others. We cannot be held liable for any damages from the website. You use the content at your own risk. We think it’s worth it.

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