Your skills, accomplishments, and professional style—how you go about getting results—are hard to discern when reduced to a list of degrees, honors, and publications. If you did the heavy lifting be sure to get the credit. Contributions that aren’t typically captured in your CV need to stay in active memory and be available to share […]
Don’t let your lab’s fortunes sink like the Titanic, to borrow the opening simile from The Progress Principle. Read this book instead and find out how to facilitate daily progress among yourself, your coworkers, and your subordinates, leading to “virtuous loops” of small successes (that add up to big victories) and happier, more creative and […]
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Is there an aspirational hierarchy of learning, one that might lead to a 10-fold gain in learning over traditional efforts?
…a deceptively simple question that can be interpreted in several ways.
I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow. Skiing. Here’s a list partial list of of things I won’t be doing: Writing letters of recommendation. Reading a fellow’s application after we met about a better platform to do experiments. Reviewing papers. Working on grant applications. Writing papers. Writing blogs for Edge for Scholars*. I’ve spent a lot of […]
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 […]
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.
The 18th Annual Visiting Scholar’s Day Dinner will be held on June 22, 2017, in the Commons Center on the Peabody campus. Our guest will be Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, Director of Clinical Research Education Programs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Associate Director of Education and Training for the Tisch Cancer […]
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 […]