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- Recipe for Hosting a Manuscript Sprint
A manuscript sprint harnesses the power of peer accountability and review to get a manuscript from zero to out the door in 6-8 weeks. We all have competing demands that keep manuscripts on the back burner. This method forces you to make progress on your paper every week.
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- The Write Rules
Are you committing these sins in your scientific writing? Time to repent.
Minimize jargon. If you must use it, do not assume familiarity. Provide a definition. A well-written definition will not insult knowledgeable readers. It will reassure them you are also an exper...
- What’s in Your Bucket(s)?
Once you’ve defined the buckets of work for your grant submission and placed them on your timeline, you are ready for the second step in the work breakdown process.
Recall that the purpose of work breakdown is to divide a large amount of work into manageable chunks. The first ...
- Email: Do It Well
In my quest to model good reading behavior, I often check out books to peruse while my kids read. Recently I picked up Send: Why People Email so Badly and How to Do It Better. I admit I was wondering what a book could teach me about e-mail, but it turned out to be very useful. F...
- The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World
Count to ten! Take a deep breath! But what next? These time-tested techniques are often not enough when conflict threatens to jeopardize a project, although Nance Guilmartin does use this advice as a first step.
Guilmartin suggests that we get “curious, not furious," leading...
- Buckets of Fun (Work?)
Proposed research project is feasible? Check. Timeline formatted? Check. Milestones added? Check. Now it’s time to break the work into manageable chunks, a process cleverly called work breakdown.
Breaking the work down enables you to spread your grant writing over time and sti...
- Regrouping to Gain Resilience & Resolve
Scenario*:
Early career faculty member with perfect academic pedigree and several strong first-authored publications.
Currently at mid-point of second year on tenure track.
Rushed resubmission of career development grant.
Did not incorporate advice and or use availa...
- How to Be Heard by Legislators about Proposed NIH Budget Cuts
Your senators and congressional representatives want to hear their constituents. They have fairly specific channels they use to estimate the weight of opinion from residents of their districts: 1) phone calls, 2) visits to district/national office(s), 3) letters, and 4) local me...
- TB Research on World TB Day: Yuri van der Heijden
Today is World Tuberculosis Day, held every year on March 24 to commemorate the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis (TB).
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- Researchers—Start Your Timelines
Your feasibility assessment is complete. You have made necessary adjustments and you are confident your proposed research project is feasible. Now what?
Constructing your timeline is the next step in building your plan for proposal submission. Review the earlier images of comp...
