- Asking for What You Need: Intentional Negotiation
Regardless of where you are in your career, it can be difficult to ask for what you need. For some this reflects a sense that you can’t or shouldn’t ask for more than what you have; for others, they don’t know who to ask or how to ask; and for some, they have had negative exp...
- Connecting on Twitter During Conference Season
Follow this guide for a quick reference of using social media to engage and interact during conference season (whether in-person or virtual).
Pre-Conference Tweeting
Set up your social media account, or refresh your current profile. That means -> Nice looking and current...
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But It’s Worth a Try
Today's post is from a K-level scholar who knows a lot about negotiation.
Ready to get your first job? Getting too much advice about negotiation? Not sure how to best advocate for yourself while still being reasonable? Here are a few tips:
Decide what you want. Do you want to...
- Build-a-Grant, Section by Section
In this round-up are building blocks for key grant sections gathered from Edge for Scholars blogs. Some sections are specific to NIH, while others generalize to many sponsors.
A Blueprint for Execution: Like any builder, you’ll benefit from a solid plan. Check out this overvie...
- 10 Tips on Providing Feedback to Students
This post is inspired by a tweet by @HaPhDsupervisor where she asked, “In your view, what is good supervisor feedback?”
The following 10 tips are based on responses to that tweet and my own experience as a supervisor (and former PhD student).
Ask questions and listen. Ask...
- The Guiding Principle in Scientific Writing
Many scientific authors think that effective writing is based on a set of rules, such as proper grammar or word usage. But writing well is not simply about following rules. Writing well is about using a collection of skills and principles to write in a way that engages and inform...
- Know Thy Study Section Members
The top 20% of grants in any given cycle at any study section are largely impossible to rank in terms of objective quality. Assuming paylines won't allow all to get funded—which they won't—funding individual grants in that 20% becomes a lottery, with subjective criteria often...
- Specific Aims Part III – the Hypothesis (part 1)
As Mary Poppins says, let’s start at the very beginning. What is your hypothesis? Since the entire grant revolves around this one statement, it’s important that put some thought into generating a good one. What is a good hypothesis? One that is clear, testable, provable, and supp...
- Flight Tracker: Streamlined Career Development Tracking & Analysis
Career development programs, no matter what stage of the academic career they cater to, face similar challenges. A wide range of information about scholars is available, from demographics, publications, and grant submissions to pilot funding, composition of mentor panel, training...
- Celebrating “The Climb”
To achieve a goal, we must celebrate the small wins to fuel motivation. No matter how small, we must recognize the milestones along the way as a tool to energize the process. It is also equally important to intentionally pause and take time to celebrate often while working to...
