Match Day Memories
Matching to residency is an exciting moment, and today it happens for med students across the US. MDs, tell us your Match Day stories.
Simple Steps to Validating and Managing Others: A Bedtime Story
You may be scoffing at finding time to read, but let’s face it, if you want to reach the next level you have to reach for it purposefully.
Tired Reviewer Request: Set Your Models Free!
I just completed my thirty gazillionth study section and find myself hoping some trainees turned PIs out there will heed one bit of hard-won wisdom. Your model? The one where you spent your postdoc showing that you can make rats poke their noses in a hole 26 instead of 27 times? flies don’t want to […]
Academics! Play with Darwins’ Balls to Fund STEM Education
Do your March Madness Bracket to benefit STEM projects for middle schoolers! We’ve raised $11,000 in 5 years. Let’s make this year baller!
Fresh Ideas for Writing Innovation in Your NIH Grants
Remember you are marketing your ideas. Give your pitch to colleagues, family and friends until the innovation and value-proposition are clear in plain language.
Balancing on the Edge
As academics, most of us are in overdrive—racing from meetings to emails, writing to teaching, and maintaining some semblance of a balanced life. Two fallacies about how we operate ourselves in overdrive: I can multitask: Multitasking is a misnomer.1 When we multitask, we are moving serially between tasks. This gives us the perception that we […]
Love TED Talks? So Do We. Tell Us Your Favorite and Win Two Tickets to TEDxNashville!
Link us to your favorite TED talk by 5 PM on March 8 and win!
“Modifying the Current Flow from Negative to Positive (Data!)”
Scientists are experts at asking questions, analyzing, and critiquing. We are also taught that while there are rules and facts in biology, exceptions to rules exist – in fact, we expect them. I’m going to talk about critiquing to the point of publishing, about negative (but important!) data, and how science as a whole would benefit from learning from others’ […]
Profiles Are Here!
Find your friends, the fighty squirrel who stirs things up, or people from your institution. Or other places, because profiles are here!
Where Have All the Scientists Gone?
The PI career seems to have become the “alternative career”