- How to Review a Paper
Reviewing regularly, even early in your career, lets you stay ahead of the curve of the literature. Close analysis of a paper benefits your writing as you see examples that do or don’t lead the reader down a logical path to a conclusion, clearly explain the significance of the w...
- Not that Kind of Selection: Tales of Picking Which Grants to Write
In my last post, I blogged about the different types of grants that are available to early stage investigators (ESIs) and the benefits of these awards. If you are like me, you were overwhelmed when you saw the list the first time. There are too many grants to write as a new princ...
- 10 Takeaways for Managing Undergraduate Research Assistants
Tiffany Woynaroski, PhD, studies speech development in children with autism. She also mentors 14 undergrads as part of her research team.
The undergrads on Tiffany's team are an integral part of her lab and involved in all aspects of her research.
Over dinner, she told me why ...
- How to Protect Your Protected Time
You've just gotten your K award—awesome! 75% of your professional effort is now protected to focus on your research and career development. But wait. What about that class you teach, or those days your department expects you to be in clinic, or the students whose dissertation ...
- Not that Kind of Grant: Tales of Early Career Investigator Grants
As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, my mentors wrote National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Terrible Disease Foundation grants. That was it. Imagine my surprise when I started as a new principal investigator (PI), and I was inundated with grants of which I had never h...
- Research Manuscripts Should Tell Really Good Stories
Book Review: The Art of Scientific Storytelling by Rafael E. Luna, PhD
Chapter 1: Introduction
Skim or skip. This section promotes the book and the promising ideas it conveys, when many of us (me, me, me) just want to get to the meat of the book. After several pages it reads ...
- Using NIH RePORTER to Find Your Guide
In much the same way the Assisted Referral Tool can help you pick a study section, the Program Official option for NIH’s Matchmaker tool provides insight into the Program Officer who works with the most projects that look like yours.
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- Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide
“My goal is to help rid the world of ineffective graphs, one exploding, 3D pie chart at a time.”
Drawing from the fields of graphic illustration, functional art, behavioral science and storytelling, Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic is a must for academics who ...
- Not that Kind of Scientist: Tales of Teaching
If you come from a research-intensive PhD program and postdoc, you, like me, lack teaching experience. Outside of one semester of service as a teaching assistant in graduate school, I have never lectured in a course. To those of you who teach regularly, develop multiple courses, ...
- The Benefits of Flying Solo
For the past three years, I went to all the meetings and conferences by myself. I love traveling, and going to conferences provides me with the opportunity to go to new places and visit friends.
When I was in grad school in Spain, I usually went to the meetings with all my lab...
