Captain Your Own Ship
Mentors don’t choose for you. Mentors are not your personal decider-on-call. Mentors are not the captain of you ship. You are.
Peer Behind the Study Section Curtain
Register for the Mock Study Section at Translational Science 2017. All pre- and postdoctoral trainees as well as early career faculty can participate in the Mock Study Section at Translational Science 2017. This session replicates an NIH Study Section down to the last molecule and walks through the review process using real R, K, or […]
Lucky Duck Award Winners and Another Chance to Win!
Congratulations to our Lucky Ducks! They must hoard four-leaf clovers and rabbits’ feet. Without passing go, they collect $50. Alvinj and Kate Clouse are our lucky random winners out of everyone who’s created a profile. Rachel A hails from Iowa and is our eMiles winner for being the furthest person from the top secret Edge server […]
Get Writing and Recapture Your Free Time with How to Write a Lot
Do you find your grant-writing intruding on time you’d rather spend with your family? Did revisions to that last journal article ruin your vacation? Then this book might be just the thing you need. Author Paul Silvia wanted to call How to Write a Lot “How to Write More Productively During the Normal Work Week With […]
Build Mentor/Mentee Connections with MyNRMN
Are you a trainee looking for a mentor? Are you a scientist looking to foster careers in research? A new tool supported by NIH can help you build mentoring relationships and further the scientific enterprise through these connections. The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) is an NIH program developed in response to advisory committee recommendations for developing and supporting a […]
Spending time with smart people …
I was recently asked by a colleague to name a favorite ‘life hack’ for research or academic life. My first thoughts centered around productivity tips and tricks. However, the more I reflected, the more I came back to the concept that success isn’t really measured in getting more things done faster. Rather, success is getting the right things […]
Productivity Tip #6: I’m Not Telling You to Lie
You don’t have to say you are away to use your “out of office” feature. You just have to be bold. My favorite flavor of bold is the Texan Dean who declares in an email bouceback that the eight people and email addresses listed serve as portals for specific types of emails, including the category […]
Three (Grant) Peeves in a Pod: Check Yourself
Reviewers review. We will notice. These fresh mistakes straight from study section: 1.) Please agree with yourself. If the abstract says n = 110, the aims say 100, the statistical section says 110, and the budget justification says 100, it makes me cranky. 2.) Please explain yourself. When presenting power/sample size calculations let me know […]
Write Like a Boss: Five Minutes to Better Science Writing
If your writing is starting to look a little frayed around the edges and lacking that enthusiastic zing you had when you first got to the keyboard, its time for you to up your stylistic game. Three great resources are available to help you improve your writing in five minutes or less. First, think about your […]
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