- 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...
- Strong Performance
Mike Boyle is a legendary strength and conditioning coach whose athlete clients include the US Women’s Olympic Soccer and Ice Hockey teams, Boston Bruins, Boston Breakers, and service on coaching staff for the World Series-winning Boston Red Sox. He’s the coach of coaches via his...
- Designing Your Career
This post condenses a talk by Mark Denison, MD, at a Vanderbilt Translational Bridge meeting.
For many trainees, and occasionally even the senior faculty who mentor them, career development is a black box: You put in papers, grants, teaching, research, and other career-hel...
- Using Timelines to Diagnose Problems in Career Planning
This post builds on a presentation at the 2019 CTSA Annual Meeting of Training Program Directors.
Reviewing intended career progression is a cornerstone of mentorship. Goals for milestones such as manuscript and grant submissions typically dominate discussion. Often goals are ...
- You MUST Read Dreyer’s English
If Strunk and White is a subtle and respectable Merlot, Dreyer’s English is a Cosmopolitan: light, witty, and slightly pink. Reading this style guide is like going to party with your snarky friend to critique everyone from the bar. Dreyer makes you feel like part of the in-cr...
- 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 ...
