- 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...
- 10 Reasons to Use Trello for Any Size Team
List-makers make great leaders because keeping track of tasks helps organize the workOrganizing thoughts formally in lists, and in light of other demands, keeps projects moving forward and avoids missing key details or competing demands. For team leaders, it can be even more cruc...
- 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 a...
- 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...
- Watch Now on the Edge Video Vault
Watch pro tips and solid advice from experts all across academia on the Edge Video Vault.
Here's a list to get you started:
Writing
11 Tips to Increase your Writing Productivity (6:52)
Be more productive amid the obligations of chaotic life with these eleven tec...
- National Academy of Science Should Sever Ties with Sexual Harassers
Earlier this week, The National Academy of Sciences held their annual meeting this week, inducting its 2018 class of scholars. Amidst the celebration of science, one thing was notably absent - a discussion of what to do about two of NAS' most well recognized members - neuroscien...
- Thank You Mentors #TS2018
Last week the Edge team was in Washington DC at Translational Science 2018 running two sessions of speed mentoring.
Speed mentoring is a riff on speed dating that allows trainees and early career faculty to meet multiple mentors in a short time. Here is the recipe for orga...
