- Publishing Null Results
Nearly every scientist has felt the frustration of pouring effort, money and (sometimes) tears into a project only to get null results. The elusive p<0.05 decides whether results get published or not—the oft-mentioned file drawer problem. Others have explained better than I ca...
- Awesome Science Videos for Kids (and Grown-Up Kids Too)
Inspire your young scientists with some amazing STEM-centered videos on YouTube. (You can enjoy them too, because really, who DOESN'T want to see the world's largest lemon battery, or learn how oxygen almost destroyed the world?)
Great channels to follow:
PBS Eons. This series...
- Conveying Institutional Support
Grant reviewers want to invest in success. If you’re applying for a career development award, you must convey the support of your institution. If your chair doesn’t want to invest in you, why should the NIH or other funding agencies?
Dr. Nancy J. Brown, chair of the Departme...
- 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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