Overlapping Rules for Horror Movies and Research
Note: some are really only helpful if we add the words “in the lab” to the rule.
The Write Rules
Time to repent of these 10 basic writing sins.
How to Be Heard by Legislators about Proposed NIH Budget Cuts
A how-to guide for calling and writing your legislators about the proposed NIH budget cuts. Do it! Scientists are making a difference.
The Hustle You Need to Be Showing
Hustle. It’s a great thing for your coach to say you do and a terrible thing if you’re overwhelmed. This image from Twitter captures so much of what we love about this word and what it means about work-life balance, we wanted to share it here. Follow the always awesome @megdraws on Twitter.
Where Have All the Scientists Gone?
The PI career seems to have become the “alternative career”
Why Am I Talking?
Flashbacks to faculty gaffs from unfiltered comments. Use the “Why Am I Talking” (WAIT) Plan to be heard in the right ways at the right times.
Do Life
I despise the term “work-life balance.” The semantics evoke work and life as opposing forces locked in conflict – the bobbing bar of a doomed tightrope walker, a teeter-totter whose fulcrum defies equilibrium. Because we rarely talk of achieving balance, it is also code for inevitable failure or guilt. I propose an alternative. Life encompasses work. … Continue reading “Do Life”