- Spring Conference Season Essentials
The weather is finally warming up, and we’re now into spring conference season. Go prepared with this grab-bag of tips and tricks from across the web.
Seduction in the Poster Session – Tips and tricks for making sure your poster gets noticed in a crowded room. Chronicle Vita...
- You Need Mentors – Noun, Plural
Unavailable mentors, or those who do not provide enough freedom, or who do not provide feedback, or who don’t take concerns seriously, are often anchored in one problem: Having a single mentor. You need a mentor panel.
We believe in diversified mentoring so strongly at our ins...
- #*@*! Plan Is Not a Four-Letter Word.
Writing a grant proposal? Do you have a plan for how you will get it written, reviewed, and submitted on time?
A PLAN? Yes, a plan.
What can a plan do for you? A plan will:
Eliminate your running around with your hair on fire trying to meet the submission deadline.
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- Acing Your Observational Research Aims
All research proposals – grants, dissertations, internal funding – must ace the description of aims. Many scientific questions are interesting. Not all are useful. You must persuade your readers that the proposed aims/hypotheses to be tested and the related analysis will f...
- Back to Her Roots: Natasha Halasa
Natasha Halasa’s parents emigrated from Jordan to the United States to make sure their children had a better life. Within one generation, via vaccine and other studies on respiratory illness and acute gastroenteritis in young children, Dr. Halasa is improving the lives of childr...
- Tools for Team Manuscript Preparation When the Data are In Hand
Here’s a map to get your best work out the door efficiently. It’s never too soon to plan the journey to a completed manuscript.
Get moving.
Huddle with your lead investigator, statistician, research team members, clinical lead, and other contributors from the start t...
- Staying on My Good Side
Since the holy trinity important things have come in threes—listen up. You can lose the good will of study section.
1.) Get the details right; misstating the methods or findings of a reference destroys your credibility.
Know every paper you cite. Others who know the science...
- Watch the Front Lines
One of the more common issues I encounter in conversations with junior faculty has to do with people management. We all know that the best leaders can sense when and how much to delegate. Delegation is an important part of team building, for it instills a sense of ownership and ...
- Don’t Crash on Approach
Getting the approach - the methods section of your grant -  fine-tuned is literally the heart of it all. You must land your science smoothly. Study section members know, and recent evidence confirms, your grant’s score is not an equal weighting of component scores. NIH criterion ...
- How to Manage People as a New Investigator
We recently hosted three newly independent investigators who run research teams humming with activity and people, who told us what it takes to manage a lab full of humans in all their idiosyncratic glory. Here are their tips:
Defining Expectations and Gathering Feedback
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