- How to Make an ESI Extension Request for Childbirth/Adoption
You’re a new parent and a scientist. Somewhere between the sticky hands, tantrums, and lack of sleep, you’re 10 years into your academic career from earning your MD and/or PhD and you haven’t made the transition to an R yet. Your circadian rhythm is messed up from dealing with ni...
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Are you a genius or a genius maker?
We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killer...
- The Thrills and Perils of Living on the Edge – Anxiety Edition
Life as a scholar is demanding. When you fulfill one demand, another pops up. Or more likely, you’ll actively pursue greater and greater challenges. This creates stress and leads many to seek tools or skills for coping with their resulting anxiety about failing to meet an endless...
- Thoughts from a Self-Proclaimed Interdisciplinarian
I am scientist trained in sociology, social work and public health (behavioral sciences, to be exact), who did a postdoc in a Pharmacy department and is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor in a College of Nursing. There are pros, cons and lessons learned from my interdiscipl...
- Reviewers & Editors Share the Secret Sauce
Publishing Your Medical Research, 2nd Edition reveals the secret sauce for maximizing the palatability of your manuscript submissions.
Edge reviews have featured exceptional books about the mechanics, inspiration, process, and editing of writing. What differentiates this offer...
- Accommodating Employees with (Invisible) Disabilities
61 million people in the US—one in four—have a disability. Beyond stereotypes, “disability” can include conditions that can’t be observed directly. Consider these examples:
A staff member with depression is struggling to mobilize in the mornings and get to work by 8:00.
A...
- Not that Kind of Attendee: Tales of Conference Attendance by Trainees
In my last post, I talked about some of the considerations I make when considering which conferences to attend. In this post, I will outline how we pick conference to attend for trainees. As always these days, n=me, and this time, my trainees.
The disclaimer: I am in my third ye...
- Your Message in the Media
You’ve been contacted to talk about your recent publication or to discuss research by another team. Here's how to prepare.
Working with print, broadcast, and online media reporters requires powerful control of your message – meaning you must plan a clear and focused commun...
- Discover What’s Getting Funded with NIH Matchmaker
To compete well for grants, you need to know what’s getting funded. Enter NIH Matchmaker. The service takes text about your science and shows you the projects that are most like yours. Reading the abstracts yields insight into the kinds of aims reviewers find attractive, a...
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Don’t Dangle Your Modifiers Off a Cliff
Modifiers add description, context, and pizzaz to nouns, verbs, and other parts of a sentence. As well as the adjectives and adverbs you're probably familiar with, verbal phrases function as modifiers too. Verbal phrases take a verb and make it function as a noun, adjective, or a...
