- 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...
- Be Edgetastic
You’ve come to The Edge – like what you see? Got ideas? The Edgetastic Panel will be our go-to group for gathering rapid-fire feedback about new directions for the blog and our social media content.
You’ll receive links to pop-up surveys to help guide our content and developme...
- Neuroscience Pretenure Boot Camp in Seattle? Yes, Please!
Are you a neuroscience fan who is an early career trainee from an underrepresented population? Like Seattle? Want some awesome FREE training? Than we have the program for you! The Brain Sciences Foundation is offering an AWESOME chance to talk about setting up your research team,...
- 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...
- Scientific Salon: A Soiree of Science & Song – May 3
Join the Program for Music, Mind & Society (MMS), Peabody College and the Department of Otolaryngology for this unusual combination of music and research at the Scientific Salon: A Soiree of Science & Song, where "musician-scientists" will present their research and perfo...
- Seeing the Dark Side of #Worksmarter
Our research team has used “work smarter” to mean lots of things:
Find a better, simpler way, that makes a task or event easier to repeat with high consistency
Think about how to streamline to reduce effort and save time
Get it done so we can use the found time for our...
- Advice for My Graduating Students
Last week one of my graduate students returned to the lab nest after seven long years away. I loved this student. I missed him when he left. He was kind and smart and organized. And he had great penmanship. He wrote well and he presented like a rock star. The only problem was tha...
- BRET Annual Career Symposium is June 1: Alumni Career Trajectories
This year’s symposium will include talks by alumni from the BRET Office’s 25 years of existence, including a head of R&D at Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals, a director at Genentech, a training program director at NYU, and many others from VP of business development at DiscoverX ...
- 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...
