- 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...
- All About My Mentor
For the past three years, every time I heard someone talking about their path to success – understanding success as something utopic and unachievable – they always shared a magic recipe: hard work, perseverance, resilience, don’t be afraid of failure, a little bit of luck here ...
- Not that Kind of Page: Tales of Building a Better Lab Website
In this day and age, every company has a website. You are running a small business and you should too. There are even murmurs that searches for your name will peak right before study section, as study section members look up the people whose grants they will be reviewing. Here ar...
- Not that Kind of Spending: Tales of Investing in Your Career
As a trainee, I was a big believer in principal investigators (PIs) paying for all things related to the science, from poster printing to conference travel to lab outings. Luckily for me, my mentors shared my views on their responsibilities to trainees, and my science-based costs...
- Antidotes to Keeping Secrets When the Going Gets Rough
We recognize that things happen to everyone—a health crisis in the family, financial dilemmas, ongoing caregiving needs, or extraordinarily stressful life events. Recent data from a survey of early career faculty document that most face a significant caregiving challenge or stres...
- The Best of You
The other day, during a conversation, I was told that I was too cheerful to be a postdoc, and we all laughed about it. They said it was almost contradictory. I have a confession to make: It is true that I am a cheerful person. I am usually making fun of myself and lightening up t...
- Not that Kind of Network: Tales of Developing a National Reputation
I never really thought about networking and reputation as a graduate student or postdoctoral research fellow (postdoc), but rather was the beneficiary of respected mentors long established in the field and regular attendance at our society’s annual meeting. I always assumed the s...
- What to Wear to a Conference (to Look Like the Pro You Are)
The Ultimate Mix-and-Match Fashion Guide
Match your outer awesomeness to your inner awesomeness
Conference season equates to visibility. Who you are in person is a key part of your personal brand. We hear often that early career researchers find the transition from invi...
