- Grant Pacing Workshop for February 2023 Submissions
Pace yourself smoothly to completion of your February 2023 submission.
Registration for February 2023 submissions is open: https://redcap.link/GPW_February2023_Submissions
Inviting early career researchers preparing a career development award (K or equivalent) or R01 grant...
- Not that Kind of Attendee: Tales of Conference Attendance by Trainees
In my last post, I talked about some of the considerations I make when considering which conferences to attend. In this post, I will outline how we pick conference to attend for trainees. As always these days, n=me, and this time, my trainees.
The disclaimer: I am in my third yea...
- Creed: Taking a Beating
Nothing like a fight movie to surface comparisons to battles in academic life. When you get in the ring to compete for a grant most of us will initially take a beating. Some NIH institutes and other federal programs are funding fewer than 1 in 20 investigator-initiated proposals....
- Join the Conversations Online Book Club
Together we’ll dig into discussion of books selected for actionable intel like:
Simplifying work life to focus more effectively
Leading productive and energized research teams
Functioning well around and despite problem people
Social media and scientific communication
...
- Join the Conversations Online Book Club
Together we'll dig into discussion of books selected for actionable intel like:
Simplifying work life to focus more effectivelyLeading productive and energized research teamsFunctioning well around and despite problem
peopleSocial media and scientific communication
...
- Your Message in the Media
You’ve been contacted to talk about your recent publication or to discuss research by another team. Here's how to prepare.
Working with print, broadcast, and online media reporters requires powerful control of your message – meaning you must plan a clear and focused communicat...
- 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, and...
- 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...
