- The Hustle You Need to Be Showing
Hustle. It's a great thing for your coach to say you do and a terrible thing if you're overwhelmed. This image from Twitter captures so much of what we love about this word and what it means about work-life balance, we wanted to share it here.
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- Researchers—Start Your Timelines
Your feasibility assessment is complete. You have made necessary adjustments and you are confident your proposed research project is feasible. Now what?
Constructing your timeline is the next step in building your plan for proposal submission. Review the earlier images of comple...
- 500 Mile(stones)
How will you know you are progressing satisfactorily toward your chosen date for submitting your grant proposal? Defining milestones will help.
Earlier blogs have addressed why doing a plan for your submission is a good idea, key concepts in project planning, how to assess the f...
- Three Irish Scientists You Should Know
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we profile three Irish scientists who made medical history:
Francis Rynd, who worked with Dublin's poorest patients at Meath Hospital in the 1800's, invented the hypodermic syringe and first used it to inject a painkiller in 1844. The syringe was...
- Match Day Memories
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Today is Match Day in the US, where fourth-year medical students across the nation learn where they'll be spending the next few years as residents in teaching hospitals. Some get exactly the match they wanted--right specialization, right city, right medical center. Othe...
- Simple Steps to Validating and Managing Others: A Bedtime Story
You may be scoffing at finding time to read, but let’s face it, if you want to reach the next level you have to reach for it purposefully. As a K-level scholar, I know my next step is managing a large research team, and I need some additional management skills to round out my sk...
- You Did the Heavy Lifting: Keep a PAR List to Capture Accomplishments
Your skills, accomplishments, and professional style—how you go about getting results—are hard to discern when reduced to a list of degrees, honors, and publications.
If you did the heavy lifting be sure to get the credit. Contributions that aren’t typically captured in your C...
- Two Lifechanging Words: “Thank You” Instead of “I’m Sorry”
From the wilds of Tumblr comes this advice:
This is an amazing way to flip the script from you making a mistake (and all the negative emotions that come with that) to creating a positive connection with the person you're talking to. Kat Boogaard at The Muse tried it for a...
- Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
Don’t let your lab’s fortunes sink like the Titanic, to borrow the opening simile from The Progress Principle. Read this book instead and find out how to facilitate daily progress among yourself, your coworkers, and your subordinates, leading to “virtuous loops” of small success...
- TEDx Nashville Ticket Winners
Congratulations to the winners of our TEDx Nashville ticket giveaway! We’ll introduce you to them in a moment, but first, check out their and other entrants’ favorite TED talks:
Moral Behavior in Animals: Animals such as primates and elephants show very human traits of cooper...
