- Summer Home Improvement? Try the NIH “All About Grants” Podcast
Summer is a great time for home improvement projects. But let’s face it, these projects can be seriously dull. The NIH All About Grants podcast can help you make the best use of your time. The podcast is not flashy, but it is USEFUL. I listened to nearly all of them two y...
- Lupus Research on World Lupus Day: April Barnado
Today is World Lupus Day, which has been designated to call attention to the impact of lupus around the world. More than five million people globally struggle with this potentially fatal autoimmune disease that can damage virtually any part of the body from skin to eyes, heart t...
- Not that Kind of Grant Application: Tales of Career Development Awards
Our department in my former institution has a very strong track record of securing career development awards for PhD and MD trainees, both on the basic and clinical research fronts. Aside from the strong science in the department and the substantial resources of the institution,...
- Avoiding a Mismatch: How To Work with a Writer or Editor
You don't have to do it all yourself! Many successful researchers engage scientific/medical writers and editors for help refining grants, manuscripts, press releases, and more. At our career development seminar, we heard from two medical writers and an early career resear...
- Responding to Manuscript Reviews While Avoiding Cerebral Aneurysms
On first receiving a set of manuscript reviews, you might feel that your reviewers must be either hopelessly ignorant of the field, actively malevolent, purposefully obtuse, or all three. The thing you must remember, though, is that a request for revisions is as good as accepta...
- Speed Mentoring: Seven Steps to a Successful Session
Speed mentoring is a riff on speed dating that allows trainees and early career faculty to meet multiple mentors in a short time. Have you ever wished you could have ten minutes for advice or conversation with an experienced researcher outside your immediate circle of mentors...
- Academic Reads: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
With uplifting chapters entitled "Emotions are Overrated", "Victimhood Chic" and "Don't Try" Mark Manson's advice on life and career is anything but subtle. Think of it like taking advice from former Jet Blue employee Steven Slater who ended his 28 year flight attendant career by...
- Ideas for the Academic Traveler
Conference and other work travel always comes with high points and drawbacks. Maximize the high points by adding new dimensions to your planning and by disrupting some conventional ideas about work travel.
Getting Ready:
Create a trip summary, either by making a persona...
- Introverts Can Network, Too!
Do you consider yourself an introvert? Do you get anxious thinking about how to meet new colleagues? Are you looking for better ways to network without becoming overwhelmed?
I personally consider myself an introvert, and I have to remind myself that networking is essential ...
- Taking Flight
If you want to be off your K or similar career development award before the end of five years, the calendar will tell you that you can't start later than the third year to submit a substantial grant. For convenience let's call that major grant an R01 though it could be a VA Mer...
