- Enhancing Productivity with Roam Research
As a healthcare researcher and academician, my professional life feels like a labyrinth of ideas, data, and endless streams of literature I should be keeping up with. It's a realm that demands meticulous organization and a strategic approach to information management. If you're l...
- Order from Chaos
For the last few years I’ve been juggling more and more balls. I was barely able to keep up with the endless emails and tasks – both at work and at home – and I felt like I was on the verge of losing control. On top of that, my long-term goals remained vague notions and even ...
- Tools for Making Progress in Academic Life
This post is particularly focused for the population I work with – graduate students and postdocs – but can be helpful for any stage of an academic career – whether as the person struggling or someone trying to help them.
Academia attracts bright, ambitious high achievers capa...
- Taking a Break Without Losing Your Momentum (or Your Mind!)
We’ve all heard the adage “Vacation is a state of mind,” but some (or most) of us don’t embrace the core of this idea. In the competitive world of academic medicine, it’s easy to feel like you need to work 24/7/365 – after all, your colleagues, trainees and leaders often send y...
- Flight Tracker: Streamlined Career Development Tracking & Analysis
Career development programs, no matter what stage of the academic career they cater to, face similar challenges. A wide range of information about scholars is available, from demographics, publications, and grant submissions to pilot funding, composition of mentor panel, training...
- Choosing What to Do or Not to Do on the Job
Lives with daycare drop-offs, graduate students to monitor and department chairs to please can be hectic. One thing I’ve learned over the years is that we can actually do much more than we think we can - when our priorities are in-line. I am also amazed at how well things work ou...
- Tune the When, How Much, and What in Your Days
You can have balance, productivity, and meaning when you know how to tune the when, how much, and what of your activities. Let me share what I've learned to achieve this over the past four years.
WHEN. Converging evidence from psychology, biology, and economics show the natura...
- How to REALLY Manage Your Time
A few years ago, I was sitting in my office with a few first-year graduate students. They had recently attended a session on setting goals that I had given and wanted to set goals that would allow them to maximize their experience in school.
We were in Utah where there were many...
- Becoming a More Productive Writer
#AcademicTwitter:
I used to be a horrible scientific writer. I was paralyzed by writing anxiety & it took me FOREVER to write papers. Last year I published 14 scientific articles (8 first, 2 second, 2 senior-author) & 2 book chapters.
A thread ⬇️ on how I becam...
- Acting on the Essential
Prioritizing across roles and responsibilities is a daily task for most of us. This is especially amplified at the intersection of research careers, faculty life, and family.
The dogma for scientific careers – especially those driven by extramural funding – is that givin...
