- Popular Young Scientist’s Post on Failure to Get Funding Goes Viral
Brad Voytek should be poster child for neuroscience. He's smart, charismatic, does a ton of outreach, sports an impressive soul patch and works on difficult problems of how the brain synthesizes, organizes and initiates behavioral tasks. Brad is a computational neuroscientist who...
- Go To SLEEP! The Five Things That Happen When You Don’t Call It A Night
How many times have you sat down at your computer and worked way too late into the night writing a paper or grant only to find that in the cold light of day that 'roll' you were on the evening has the clarity of... milk.
Milk with sludge in it.
Sludge you can't see through....
- How To Be an Academic Leader and Maintain Time For Yourself
Seventh grade English class and your assignment is to write a one pager about what you want to be when you grow up. Hmmm...sports writer, teacher, astronaut, video game creator, nurse, cowboy/girl, police person, senior faculty member! Wait, what?
Fast forward thirty years, a...
- The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World
Count to ten! Take a deep breath! But what next? These time-tested techniques are often not enough when conflict threatens to jeopardize a project, although Nance Guilmartin does use this advice as a first step.
Guilmartin suggests that we get “curious, not furious," leading...
- Pilot Funding Available for Cancer Research – Applications Due May 1
The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) announces a funding opportunity to catalyze innovative, collaborative, ovarian cancer-related projects. The goal of this award is to provide funding for generation of preliminary data required for the submission of an external, ovarian c...
- Buckets of Fun (Work?)
Proposed research project is feasible? Check. Timeline formatted? Check. Milestones added? Check. Now it’s time to break the work into manageable chunks, a process cleverly called work breakdown.
Breaking the work down enables you to spread your grant writing over time and still...
- Regrouping to Gain Resilience & Resolve
Scenario*:
Early career faculty member with perfect academic pedigree and several strong first-authored publications.
Currently at mid-point of second year on tenure track.
Rushed resubmission of career development grant.
Did not incorporate advice and or use availa...
- Meet the March Edgy Winners!
We had three Silver Edgy winner in March! These folks, all new to the Edge, proved their social media prowess by garnering more than 50 views–all of them actually made it over 100!–and at least 10 likes for their posts.
Meet our winners below, and stay tuned for the next round...
- How to Be Heard by Legislators about Proposed NIH Budget Cuts
Your senators and congressional representatives want to hear their constituents. They have fairly specific channels they use to estimate the weight of opinion from residents of their districts: 1) phone calls, 2) visits to district/national office(s), 3) letters, and 4) loc...
- Better Profiles are Coming!
Now is an EXCELLENT time to spend a couple minutes updating your profile on Edge for Scholars. Not only will you be eligible to win some cool swag for having an up to date profile, but we are going to be rolling out some new snazzy profile features. All you need to do is fill out...
