Houston Has a Post-Hurricane Science Problem: Here's How You Can Help
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
As Harvey clears out, Houston's science community is facing devastating personal and professional loses. Here's how you and your lab can help.
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Tips for Conquering the Literature
Alex Sundermann, PhD
With a strategy and some dedication, you can harness the firehose of new information to fuel your productivity.
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Not that Kind of Interview: Tales from the Second Visit
Pipette Protagonist, PhD
Spoiler: Now it’s your turn to interview them.
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Writing in Academia: An Interview with Helen Sword
The Edge for Scholars
Helen Sword has made a career of studying how academic writers write. She agreed to answer a few questions from the Edge.
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Profs on Drugs: JAMA Highlights Use of Cognitive Enhancers
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Talk to most people about ‘performance enhancing drugs’ and they conjure up images of elite athletes using drugs to increase muscle mass and oxygen delivery. In academia, performance is measured …
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How to Use ResearchMatch To Ignite Recruitment
Aimee Edgeworth
Is this free recruitment tool with over 119,000 registered volunteers right for you?
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Shields Up: Being A Science Leader in Tough Times
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
It's a new week in unbelievably challenging times. Labs need to work and papers need to be published. Finding importance in pipetting and grant writing is a struggle.
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More Bad News on the Greying of NIH PI's
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Last week, PNAS published work by Michael and Jonathan Levitt outlining in vivid detail the continued pattern towards a greying NIH portfolio. Surveying publicly available data as well as data …
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Point_Mutation Gives a Master Class in Scientists as Wackaloons.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Our gloriously strange twitter science buddies shared what it takes to make experiments that are feisty work.
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Nature Suggests UK Follow US Lead on Academic Sexual Harassment. Please Don't.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
In its July 27th issue, Nature published an editorial encouraging leaders of the UK’s 1752 Working Group on academic sexual harassment to take their lead from the US. Sir Philip …
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