- Not that Kind of Choice: Tales of Conference Selection
Conference season is here! My inbox is flooded with invites to the big annual meetings for my Terrible Disease of Interest and Clinical Meeting Dealing with Terrible Disease (and Other Terrible Diseases), along with dues notices. Meanwhile, colleagues are already asking about the...
- Like It or Not, You’re a Negotiator: Getting to Yes
“Like it or not, you are a negotiator,” state Harvard Negotiation Project faculty Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton in the introduction to this clear and concise guide to negotiating on principle rather than position. This book will help you navigate all the neg...
- Why and How to Plan a Creativity Escape
You have a hundred good ideas that need exploration. But they compete with a thousand perpetually accruing tasks – some key, some trivial. The psychological weight of the latter can dictate your life and grind creativity to a pitiful nub of chewed up pencil waiting in a drawer. T...
- Be Proud of Your Accent! Give Confident Conference Presentations
Is English not your first language?
Currently, and this could well change, most international research is communicated in English. For now at least, all international researchers need to become proficient at speaking English in public. Using interpreters at conferences is ...
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Comprise vs. Compose
“Comprised of” should never exist in formal writing. Arguably, the construction is used so much now that sooner or later, style guides will accept it, but not yet.
First, some background. Per the Cambridge Dictionary, Comprise means “to consist of or to be made up of”; i.e., it...
- How Not to Blow an Interview
For those venturing into interview season, we offer a roundup of great advice for putting your best foot forward.
Tips for a Successful Virtual Interview - Control what you can control, and prepare to answer the most common questions.
Junior Prof's Preliminary Interview Quest...
- Mapping the Path for a K or R Submission
When submitting a grant, sixteen weeks out is the magic number for starting the process. (For the NIH deadlines, this means start working at the deadline before your target: For the June deadline, early February is the optimal time to begin, and so on.) Understanding the path...
- National Mentor Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
I thought of this ...
- If They Can’t Trust You with Stats, They Won’t Trust You with Money
For most grants you write, here is all you need to do to get them funded:
1. Convince me that it will be a crime against humanity if the science doesn’t get done, and that
2. No one in the world besides you can do it.
Simple.
For grants with a clinical trial, thou...
- Keeping Your Eye on the R01 Ball
This post condenses a Q&A led by Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH and Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, on the topic of K to R conversion at the annual 2018 meeting of the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Awards in Aging. The round table included Beeson Scholars, who ...
