- American Cancer Society Funding for Pilot Data
If you’re an assistant professor without R03, R21, or similar national grant-level research funding who studies cancer, the American Cancer Society wants to give you $30,000 to help you get preliminary data for an independent research grant submission. You can be on a K or equiv...
- Glam Journals Whiff Again with More Bad Mentoring and Career Advice
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- What environment do we create when college students are “kids?”
We’ve all heard it – and maybe said it: “well, the kids in this class, won’t…” or “I just can’t get these kids to do the reading…” What learning environment do we create when we refer to college students as “kids?”
College students are adults. Technically, these individuals ar...
- What’s in Your Bucket(s)?
Once you’ve defined the buckets of work for your grant submission and placed them on your timeline, you are ready for the second step in the work breakdown process.
Recall that the purpose of work breakdown is to divide a large amount of work into manageable chunks. The first st...
- Why We’ve Got it Good
Challenging, competitive career progression is the norm in highly-educated professions:
Law: clerk, associate, junior partner, senior partner, managing partner
International banking: intern, associate, analyst, unit director, executive position, board of directors
Journa...
- Email: Do It Well
In my quest to model good reading behavior, I often check out books to peruse while my kids read. Recently I picked up Send: Why People Email so Badly and How to Do It Better. I admit I was wondering what a book could teach me about e-mail, but it turned out to be very useful. F...
- Popular Young Scientist’s Post on Failure to Get Funding Goes Viral
Brad Voytek should be the 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...
- Drug Development Externships with Eli Lilly
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and Eli Lilly are offering fully paid externships to support training and education in techniques, principles, and core competencies in multiple areas of drug development.
If you’re a trainee or investigator at a...
- Nature Conspiracy Theories
Thanks to our BFF on Twitter, ShrewShrew for tossing out a near perfect pitch for April Fools Day by creating "Nature Conspiracy Theories" just in time for the best holiday of the year. Since it's Saturday, Storifying Shrew's genius is way easier than blogging.
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- Behind the Scenes with a Standardized Patient
When most people hear what I do for a living, they think of a TV show. Actually, they think of a particular episode of a TV show. My official job title is Standardized Patient. Last week I had cholecystitis and lung cancer. In the past year I’ve had pneumonia, an MRSA infecti...
