Nature: The Plight of Young Scientists
Rebecca Helton, MA
A recent news feature in Nature highlighted challenges facing early career scientists, from pressure to publish to shrinking funding and the increasing length of time before reaching research independence. Early …
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Bad News About Your Right to Privacy, Faculty
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
So, you finally got your big kid job and now you’re all settled into with snazzy new computer, you’ve got voice mail that pops up and records your …
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Did You Miss It? Big Research Investing and a Decade of DrugMonkey Blog
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
This week’s edition of Friday Fighty Squirrel (FFS) offers a quick glimpse of things you might have missed this week on the interwebs while you were working away on …
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Open Season: NIH Loan Repayment Program
The Edge for Scholars
NIH wants to pay your medical or grad school debt. 1,500 awards are active each year, and each awardee receives up to $70,000 in debt repayment. Awards are available in several broad …
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FFS: Faculty Dispairty, Violence and Starvation
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I’ve decided to reup my efforts at bringing some important news you might have overlooked this week in a feature known as Forefront Friday Stories (FFS). This week’s …
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Being Really You and Really Professional on Social Media
The Edge for Scholars
Is there a difference between what you’d post for your colleagues versus what you’d post for your group of close friends? Is censoring yourself on social media difficult …
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Meditation: It's Not What You Think
The Edge for Scholars
When you read the word “meditation,” what image first comes to mind? A New Yorker Magazine cartoon once depicted two monks in robes, one young, one old, sitting side-by-side, cross-legged …
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Why Your Favorite Journals Need to Put a Dog in the Ethics Fight*
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
There is nothing an journal editor loves more than seeing a late night email from my best friend, Paul Brookes, in their mailbox. Paul is a genius. Well, technically he’…
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Scientific Societies Are Failing Academics: Five Ways to Do Better and Get More
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Scientific and medical societies have been in existence for hundreds of years. At their best, they foster communication, collaboration, education and outreach. At their worst, they are slow moving exclusionary …
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Unmanaged Time
The Edge for Scholars
Ever feel like most time management advice is, well, crap? So do Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, authors of a recent article in the Chronicle with the provocative title “…
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