Taking Flight
If you want to be off your K or similar career development award before the end of five years, the calendar will tell you that you can’t start later than the third year to submit a substantial grant.
The Write Rules
Time to repent of these 10 basic writing sins.
Behind the Scenes with a Standardized Patient
Last week I had cholecystitis and lung cancer. In the past year I’ve had pneumonia, an MRSA infection and angina. Here’s how the magic happens.
Regrouping to Gain Resilience & Resolve
When we analyze strengths and weaknesses, seek and use pointed critique, and reject excuses, resilience and resolve will follow.
Meet the March Edgy Winners!
Three new posters stepped up and won Edgys in March for their insightful, popular posts.
Sure You’re Overcommitted? Here’s A Hint…
Have you surrounded your phone and laptop with notes saying ‘Say No!’? Do you look at next week’s schedule and wonder what were you thinking? Do you leave meetings looking like this guy? If so, you may have a bad case of overcommitment syndrome. Can the Fighty Squirrel offer a quick suggestion? Think about that last time you […]
You ARE an Impostor. Six Life Altering Steps to Fix That.
Impostor Syndrome. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the nagging to overwhelming feeling that you are not as you seem. You’re an impersonator, imitator…you are masquerading as something you are not. Impostor Syndrome has had some thoughtful and powerful things written about it. About how feelings of inadequacy will cripple you into times of deep […]
8 Reasons I Accepted Your Article
It helps if your reviewer wishes they’d written that paper.
Where Have All the Scientists Gone?
The PI career seems to have become the “alternative career”
Spring Conference Season Essentials
The weather is finally warming up, and we’re now into spring conference season. Go prepared with this grab-bag of tips and tricks from across the web.