- Reframing Rejection: Changing ‘No’ to ‘Not Yet”
Current Application Status: Not Discussed
“Thank you for submitting your work to our Journal. It has been carefully reviewed by experts in the field and we regret to inform you that we must REJECT your manuscript.”
We’ve all been there, many times. Sometimes it can feel...
- Awesome Things About Life in Research
Building a list of awesome things that come with life in research, one quirky, funny, inspiring piece at a time. Missing your favorite awesomeness? Or have The perfect image? Add in comments or tweet @edgeforscholars to share your personal twist on why science rocks. #JoyOfSc...
- Leading a Lab: Compass Program for Leadership and Management Training
This fall I had the opportunity to participate in Compass (Wash U Compass: Elevating Biomed Professionals (researchercompass.org)), a leadership and management training and mentoring program for early career researchers. An NIH-funded program led by a team at Washington Universit...
- Advice for (New) Assistant Professors Extravaganza
Originally posted in #MHAWS: Mirya Holman's Aggressive Winning Scholars Newsletter.
Hello darlings!
Welcome to the annual “Mirya Holman gives some advice to (new) assistant professors” extravaganza! MHGSATNAPE just rolls off the tongue, right?
Here’s the advice I gave last y...
- NIH’s New Data Sharing Policy: Not So Scary
NIH now requires a formal data sharing plan for each grant they receive. (A few exceptions, primarily T32s and F grants, exist.) It sounds complicated, but they've actually made it pretty easy. You're probably already doing some of what's required.
First of all, there's a ...
- De-Mystifying Single IRB: Let IREx Help!
As you travel the long, often winding and shadowy trail of initiating a new study across multiple sites, you may suddenly find a fork in the path to your welcoming mead hall – a requirement to use a single IRB (sIRB). From afar it seems simple enough to traverse, but what doe...
- The Power of Strong Collaborations
Biomedical science is no longer primarily conducted by brilliant individuals running their own labs and writing paper after paper using the same methodology that they have perfected over the course of their training and career. Even the seemingly simplest of projects likely requi...
- Perfection is a Productivity Blocker
I recently attended the Edge for Scholars Retreat: Building Collaborations, Creating Connections and learned so much about connecting with others throughout an academic career. Meeting new people at a similar career stage and getting advice from those who have gone before us made...
- New Data Update on the All of Us Researcher Workbench
On Thursday, June 23, the All of Us Research Program announced a new data update to the Researcher Workbench. This refresh includes information donated by participants through January 1, 2022. Using this data, researchers will be able to tap into the dataset’s rich COVID-19 data,...
- Strategic Procrastination
Strategic Procrastination – transforming a time-killing obstacle into a time-saving life hack
Procrastination has a horrible reputation: It’s blamed for the many wasted hours and lack of productivity we all fear and to which we occasionally succumb. This is overly simplistic....
