- 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.
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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...
- Success Working Away From the Office
Have you ever tried working somewhere other than your usual desk? I find it very productive. And because it is productive, and allows me to really “get into” what I’m working on, I also find it to be invigorating.
No phone (except my personal cell which is limited to family/fr...
- Don’t Row, Steer. A Professor’s Four Steps to Deep Work
Academics often find themselves information overload, juggling emails, administrative chores and committees while struggling to do the 'deep work' of contemplative thought required to be successful. Enter Georgetown University Professor Cal Newport with his offering for how to fo...
- Finding Motivation When You’re Ready to Quit
I’ve been trying to get funding for my research, but nothing has come through. You, too? I’ve had past success with the National Institutes of Health and small foundations. But I haven’t received new grant funding in six years and my last award ran out two years ago. This is well...
- 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...
