- 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 ...
- Not That Kind of Job Offer: Tales of Negotiation
It has been a long road to get here, but after all the applications, the interviews, the thank you notes, and agonizing waiting game, you are finally the recipient of your very own offer letter! If you, like many new faculty I know, are a little disappointed in the offer, do not ...
- Ten Insider Tips: What Your Grants Manager Wishes You Knew
Your grants manager is a key person in ensuring smooth submission of your grant. Here’s what every grants manager wants you to know:
1. Notify your grants manager at the very beginning of the grant writing process. This will help them schedule their time and give your grant th...
- Not that Kind of Year: Tales of Year 2 as a New PI
It has been about two years since I started my new position as a principal investigator (PI) at Clinical Department in R1 University. Year 2 has been a challenge, but for different reasons than Year 1. While the lessons from Year 1 remain relevant, Year 2 has yielded additional k...
- Three essential steps to win a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Have a very powerful opening that matches your single message (powerful) slide
You face one of three situations.
One - you are the first speaker and the audience is just settling in. They are unused to listening to very short talks, so they won’t pay adequate attentio...
- The Key to Handling Stress is Massive Egotism
We’re living through tough times. The overall grant funding rate has been trending downwards since I was born, and I ain’t that young. Everything’s more competitive now than it was 10 or 20 years ago, from the amount of work needed to get into a high impact journal to the number ...
- Suicide Prevention in University Settings
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the United States for individuals aged 10-34 (accidental injury is the only cause that exceeds it), and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54. (National Institute of Ment...
- Not that Kind of Boss: Tales of Team Management and Mentorship
One of the more challenging aspects of being a principal investigator (PI) and running a research lab is people management. Labs are complex environments comprising hourly technicians, salaried research scientists, undergraduates in their first lab, graduate students in training,...
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Correcting Comparisons
A rule to instantly improve your writing: "Compared to" (or "compared with") never replaces "than" without a sentence rewrite.
This construct is common in academic work, and misuse is understandable. Often the sentence does make a comparison. However, using "compared to" in plac...
