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I am often struck by the similarities between selling methods and grant writing. Of course, grant writing is selling, but scientists don’t usually think of themselves as salesmen. I recently read a blog post about the PASTOR method, which was conceived by a well-known copywriter ...
- 5 Things That Help Me Write
I remember a seminar that I organized when I was a postdoc. The speaker was a science communicator with a PhD in biomedical science, who also had published a novel. She started the seminar by asking the audience “Who considers themselves a writer?” A few hands went up. Next, ...
- Celebrating Team Wins
Favorite traditions for basking in the glory of a first-authored paper or awarded grant
Celebrating lab successes creates a culture of compassion, motivates lab members, and teaches the next generation of scientists to lead with kindness.
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- 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:
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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...
