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- 5 Ways to Improve the RCR Section of Your K
Remove all the fluff. We don’t need for you to tell us that you are “committed to RCR at every level of your career” when you can demonstrate it through your experiences. What have you actually done that shows me that you’ve had conversations about research integrity or that y...
- Counting What Counts in Responsible Conduct of Research Training
Thinking about and acting responsibly in the conduct of research (RCR) underpins all aspects of day-to-day life as a scientist. To keep RCR content fresh and to show that scholars are consuming a well-rounded diet of RCR topics, our T and K leadership group sought to broaden how ...
- NIH Wants to Pay Your Student Loans. Here’s How to Make It Easier for Them to Do It.
NIH up to $100,000 a year for you to pay down your student debt and you really should let them give it to you. If you're a health professional in biomedical or biobehavioral research and in need of paying down your student debt, NIH's Loan Repayment Program offers a fantastic way...
- Data Management: Streamlining Your Research and Publication Pipeline
By Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati and Elisabeth Shook
In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memorandum stating that United States taxpayers deserved to have access to all publicly funded research, including the underlying data. How can ...
- “Psst….Pass Me Those Aims?” How You Can See Everyone’s Full Grant Application.
This week, journalists Teresa Carey and Aylin Woodward revealed a well hidden secret used to get access to academic's research grants. Like many researchers, I was under the (mistaken) belief that the public was only privy to the short grant abstract using NSF or NIH Reporter. In...
- Houston Has a Post-Hurricane Science Problem: Here’s How You Can Help
Houston science is in trouble. The worst of the flooding and devastation hasn't been fully felt and the rain continues to fall. The flooding is so bad that The National Weather Service had to make up new colors to represent the amount of rainfall that is filling Texas streets and...
- Tips for Conquering the Literature
As a new graduate student, I struggled with identifying the most relevant papers, organizing interesting publications, and remembering why I flagged an article as “Super Important!!!” months after I read it. I’ve synthesized a few tips for taming the task:
1. Identify relevant a...
- Not that Kind of Interview: Tales from the Second Visit
After all the applications, the interviews, and the agonizing waiting game, you have been invited for your second interview/visit. Of all the variable processes you have encountered up until this point, this portion is fairly straightforward and fun. These have been our experienc...
- Writing in Academia: An Interview with Helen Sword
Helen Sword has made a career of studying how academic writers write. You may know her from The Writer’s Diet book and online test to tell if your writing is flabby or fit. Maybe you've tried to emulate the elegant expression of ideas surveyed and analyzed in Stylish Academic W...
- Profs on Drugs: JAMA Highlights Use of Cognitive Enhancers
Talk to most people about 'performance enhancing drugs' and they conjure up images of elite athletes using drugs to increase muscle mass and oxygen delivery. In academia, performance is measured as creative thinking and working smart under crushing deadlines.
Last week, JA...
