- 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 natural ...
- Ten Tips When Interviewing for a Faculty Position
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I’m in the midst of coaching my 21st and 22nd advisees through the process of interviewing for faculty jobs. Every year, I think, I should write this stuff down in case it’s useful to others. ...
- Digital Branding and SEO 101
Digital branding for scientists often involves blogging, and blogging involves SEO or search-engine optimization. Whether you write for a personal blog, for your lab’s website, or for an online publication, you need a basic understanding of SEO and its impact on discoverability....
- Digital Branding that Beats Social Media Algorithms
Using social media for science communication can both inform and influence the public. Misinformation takes hold in the absence of researchers sharing their knowledge, but effective social media can persuade people who haven’t already hardened their views on the latest scientifi...
- One Minute Writing Tuneup: Readability
While helping a brilliant scientist revise her abstract to a 10th grade reading level for a foundation award application, I wrote down some tips for converting writing intended for audiences with a scientific background to readers with less formal education:
Smaller words. Half ...
- 2021 Edge for Scholars Photography Contest: Caregiving
To celebrate the 5th year of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists, we invite submissions of photographs capturing the essence of substantial caregiving as part of life. We are eager to capture all dimensions of caregiving roles includi...
- 10 Tips for Supervising Research Interns
I recently came across this post on Twitter that said, “I’m mentoring an undergrad researcher for the first time! What advice would you give for how to be a good mentor?”
Supervising students is one of my favourite parts of academic life. The post made me think about how I super...
- Writer’s Toolbox: Creating Sentences That Flow
Have you ever had a high-tech remote control that has multiple features but you only use the off and on button? Or a computer application like Excel (guilty) that can perform many functions and you only use it for addition? Using words and sentences can be akin to using that ...
- Mentoring for Grief & Growth at the End of a Dissertation
Just yesterday one of my Ph.D. students whose dissertation is due to the committee next week asked me "Please tell me the truth. Am I okay?" I assured the student that they were indeed okay, and not just okay but that they had completed an impressive body of work, that they had...
- Working with the Kids at Home? Tips from an Experienced Parent
The ongoing pandemic has made working remotely with kids a reality for many parents. With schools mostly back in person, it's less of an all-day struggle, but with exposure quarantines and canceled aftercare/activities, the kids are still at home more often than usual. Reports o...
