- Get Your PMCIDs PDQ
[caption id="attachment_7009" align="alignright" width="400"] Your paper will be assimilated into the PubMed Central database.[/caption]
Biosketches, progress reports, and other materials that go to NIH need these digits. Here's what you need to do.
Does My Paper Need a PMCID...
- Think of It as the Next Big Adventure
No, not death or marriage or parenthood. Or joining the military, converting to a new religion, moving country or finally accepting that His Dark Materials is a better fantasy epic than Harry Potter. These are all momentous life, events but what I want to talk to you about now is...
- How to Host a Multidisciplinary, Near-Peer Work-in-Progress Group
Work-in-progress groups (WIPs) convene members on a regular schedule for supportive critique of scholarly materials, including presentations, posters, manuscripts, cover letters, grant applications, and responses to reviews. WIPs are accepted as a career development best practic...
- “Zoom In” to Keep Group Review and Critique on Track
Work-in-Progress sessions (WIPs) are at risk of getting bogged down at the wrong level of feedback, most often focusing on specific edits or details that may not be the top priority, with the focus often driven by those who speak up first.
Several steps can help deploy the gro...
- Shark Tank for Scientists: NIH’s SBIR/STTR Grants
Have you ever searched for something in NIH RePORTER and seen some unusual grantee organizations in the results, maybe ones with “Inc.” or “LLC” in the name rather than “University” or “Medical Center”? If so, you’ve come across grants made to small businesses through the SBIR/ST...
- Not that Kind of Bias: Tales of Survivorship Bias
I am in my fourth year as a faculty member and experiencing the typical “how do I get these grants funded” struggles that many, if not all, of us face. Over the past year, I have been given a truly staggering amount of conflicting advice from mentors. This has led me to thinking ...
- Not that Kind of Letter: Tales of Rejection
I have been thinking about rejections in science. Rejections come in all shapes and sizes, from the grant you need to build your program, to an awesome rotation student picking another lab, to a manuscript rejection at yet another journal. While I definitely had my share of rejec...
- Thoughts from a Self-Proclaimed Interdisciplinarian
I am scientist trained in sociology, social work and public health (behavioral sciences, to be exact), who did a postdoc in a Pharmacy department and is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor in a College of Nursing. There are pros, cons and lessons learned from my interdiscipl...
- Using Timelines to Diagnose Problems in Career Planning
This post builds on a presentation at the 2019 CTSA Annual Meeting of Training Program Directors.
Reviewing intended career progression is a cornerstone of mentorship. Goals for milestones such as manuscript and grant submissions typically dominate discussion. Often goals are ...
- Be Proud of Your Accent! Give Confident Conference Presentations
Is English not your first language?
Currently, and this could well change, most international research is communicated in English. For now at least, all international researchers need to become proficient at speaking English in public. Using interpreters at conferences is ...
