- 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...
- Not That Kind of Tale: Roundup for the Academic Job Season
From the clutches of a search committee to the interview gauntlet, a plethora of protips from Pipette Protagonist:
Application Tales
Not that Kind of Summer: Tales of Preparing for Academic Job Season
A guide to the first step: putting together the application. Each ...
- Avoiding Barriers Between Your Work and Your Reviewer
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- Significance – NIH style
The significance section of an R01 is probably the most misunderstood part of the entire NIH grant. Perhaps this should come as no surprise, as this section has been a bit of a moving target over the past several years. Another source of confusion may be that Webster’s defini...
- How to PhD: 10 Tips from Hindsight
I received my PhD in Computational Biophysics in 2012 from the University of Western Australia. I am currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia (the equivalent of junior PI). During my postdoctoral years, I have ...
- 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...
- Feeling Powerless in the Age of COVID (Part II)
Last time we chatted, or I like to think of it as chatting, I talked about feeling powerless. For me, feeling powerless is something I have struggled with throughout my life, and these “unprecedented times” have no doubt fostered that feeling in many people. If you think some of...
- Ome sweet ome
In case you haven’t noticed, the suffix -ome is becoming increasingly popular in science. Genome, proteome, transcriptome, kinome, synaptome, etc. When I read words with an -ome ending, images of figures with many colored boxes labeled with teeny, tiny print swirl in my head. I c...
- Edge Writing Resources Roundup
Lasso our most popular writing resources and advice to ride smoothly into the new semester.
Three (Grant) Peeves in a Pod: Write Better
Cranky Reviewer
Contorted sentence structure and dense text torture reviewers. Lighten and clarify with these tips from our resident Cranky R...
- One-Minute Writing Repairs
Writing guru, fledgling medical editor, former freshman comp teacher, and Edge blogger Rebecca Helton offers bite-sized tips to improve your writing. Small adjustments can make big differences in clarity and style. We've rounded up links to the related posts below:
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