- A Sure Fire Way to Know What Your Boss Thinks About You
Step 1 of the 1 Step Sure Fire Way to Know What Your Boss Thinks About You is..... ASK!
Sounds ridiculous, right? But there are countless people who spending sleepless nights worrying they aren't doing enough, they are doing the wrong things, the wrong way while sporting bad h...
- What Folks Want to See on Your Lab Website
Your colleagues, current and potential trainees, collaborators and yes, study sections are doing internet searches on you with greater frequency. Knowing that people are looking, why not show them what you want them to see?
Here’s a list, in no particular order, of things ...
- Myers Briggs Made Useful: Academic Edition
Ask someone if they would take a personality test and they may first think of strange inkblots and probing questions about their childhood.
Today's personality tests move far beyond the Myers Briggs assessments and have been tailored to identify working environments that optim...
- Finding Signals in the Noise: Todd Edwards
Discovering meaning in a massive amount of random-seeming data is nothing new to Todd Edwards, PhD, a genetic epidemiologist. His career has made meaning out of many disparate parts, beginning with six years in the US Army as a Print Journalist, pre-med and biology classes in co...
- The Five Stages of Grief: Saying Goodbye to the Old Biosketch
Confused about the NIH’s new biosketch format? Wondering how to present your work in the best light?
Download slides from a presentation by Dr. Katherine Hartmann, Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Scientist Development at Vanderbilt University, on how to make y...
- Rock Talk: Recent Data on R21 and R01-Equivalent Grants
While many think that R21's are easier to get than R01's, since fewer researchers compete for them and they require no preliminary data, in fact R21's are more competitive than R01's by several percentage points. NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Dr. Sally Rockey shows...
- Change Your Default Meeting Time
I’d like to make a modest proposal. We should stop scheduling meetings with zero time to go from one meeting to the next.
Does this describe your life? You have a meeting scheduled from 9:00am to 10:00am. And then another meeting from 10:00am to 10:30am. You have left yourself...
- Marathon Running, Marathon Research: Dawn Newcomb
For Dawn Newcomb, PhD, writing a grant is like running a marathon. As a veteran of six marathons since she moved to Nashville in 2007, she should know. “You have to be in it for the long haul and pace yourself well,” she says. She found the CTSD grant pacing workshops, whi...
- Do You Have Mysterious Dragons in Your Research?
If my experience reading some of the world’s best (and worst) literature has taught me anything, it is that all of the best stories have dragons in them. O.K. – many of the best ones have dragons, or mention dragons, or contain some dragon-like concept. Whenever there is a dragon...
- The Dirty Truth: Passion Isn’t the Only Ingredient for Success
Although passion is often thought to be a necessary ingredient for success, we all know it’s not the only one. If you’re passionate about handwritten letters, but everyone you know uses email, you may need to adapt to communicate. Likewise, if your passion is autism, but anothe...
