- Labor Unions for students, postdocs and research track faculty
While I deeply understand the desire for job security for postdoctoral fellows and non-tenure track faculty, I do not feel that unions are the way to go. The best job security any of us has is doing an outstanding job with our chosen profession. Tenure itself has little guarant...
- The Olympics of Pain: Tag Me Out
I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow. Skiing. Here's a list partial list of of things I won't be doing:
Writing letters of recommendation.
Reading a fellow's application after we met about a better platform to do experiments.
Reviewing papers.
Working on grant applicat...
- Tired Reviewer Request: Set Your Models Free!
I just completed my thirty gazillionth study section and find myself hoping some trainees turned PIs out there will heed one bit of hard-won wisdom. Your model? The one where you spent your postdoc showing that you can make
rats poke their noses in a hole 26 instead of 27 times?...
- Fresh Ideas for Writing Innovation in Your NIH Grants
NIH information for grant authors prompts researchers to ask these questions as they describe innovation:
Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, in...
- 8 Reasons I Accepted Your Article
What do reviewers like to see in an article? Five of them from Elsevier answered that question with some of the following points:
1. It provides insight into an important issue – for example, by explaining a wide variance when numbers are spread out from the mean or expecte...
- Visiting Scholar’s Day with Dr. Janice Gabrilove, June 22, 2017
The 18th Annual Visiting Scholar’s Day Dinner will be held on June 22, 2017, in the Commons Center on the Peabody campus. Our guest will be Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, Director of Clinical Research Education Programs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Associate Director o...
- Balancing on the Edge
As academics, most of us are in overdrive—racing from meetings to emails, writing to teaching, and maintaining some semblance of a balanced life.
Two fallacies about how we operate ourselves in overdrive:
I can multitask: Multitasking is a misnomer.1 When we multitask, we are...
- Become an NIH Loan Repayment Program Ambassador
If you have or had an NIH Loan Repayment Program award, you can pay it forward by becoming an LRP Ambassador.
Why would you want to do this?
You have mentees who can apply for an LRP award and you want to support them.
You thought it was a great program and want to hel...
- Building Resiliency with Hypnosis and Mindfulness
“Stressed?” Of course. We are all stressed. We are carving out an identity in academia, developing our research focus, writing grants, papers, and talks, all while attempting to have some “balance” in our lives. In fact, it would probably be a little concerning if you were not st...
- In It Together: Dyadic Coping Among Doctoral Students and Partners
In the news lately is an article for the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism by UK academics Dr. Tracy J. Devonport and Dr. Andrew M. Lane, who studied the stressors encountered while completing a doctoral program on two male students and their female partners th...
