- 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 killers, t...
- How a Flyer Changed Our Lives
My four children are grown and launched into their own distinctive and amazing lives. Finding this poster as I cleaned my office brought back all the wonderful, complicated, impossible features of academic life and parenting. We never lived close to extended family and sometimes ...
- Why Can’t NIH Study Sections Operate More Like Journal Reviews?
Why can’t NIH Study Sections operate more like journal reviews? I’ve been publishing in scientific journals for over 15 years, and have served as a manuscript reviewer and editor plenty of times. The process involves ONE team of reviewers, who see the first submission and any sub...
- 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...
- Coming Soon: Biostatistics Action & Adventure
Supercharge your approach to data analysis with a biostatistics course featuring The Legend Dr. Frank Harrell. Edge for Scholars is proud to announce Biostatistics for Biomedical Research will drop on October 4. A wakeup call to use modern biostatistical methods.
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- Water Your ORCID
Beginning October 1, 2019, all trainees on T and similar grants (T32, T15, TL1, R25, etc.) and K12/KL2 scholars must have an ORCID ID linked to their eRA Commons profile to be appointed to their training grant. The requirement extended to all K and F awardees on January 25, 2020....
- Pay It Forward with a Prize
This is your chance to reflect on what you wish you (or others) had known at key points in your life or career. Pay it forward by sharing what you’ve learned in a blog here on Edge for Scholars. Content with the most traction (as measured by a weighted index of likes, views, and ...
- 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 interdiscipli...
- 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 offerin...
- 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 postdoc w...
