The New PI Sets Up a Lab

I've done some thinking about the science pipeline this week: a thought-provoking blog post by Sergey Kryazhimskiy (@skryazhi) asked w...

If you have never read “Stress in biomedical research: six impossible things” , you should read it right now. Not kidding. Go...

My blog has had an empty post labeled “Women in science” for a very long time, but as I collected ideas and links, I was never ...

Lovingly nicknamed the "kangaroo" grant by the NIH, the K99/R00 Transition to Independence award is designed to help postdoctoral...

After a very though year, I decided to take it easy this summer, which got me thinking about work ethics and the kind of role model I want...

After some crazy recent traffic due to a couple of tweets referencing my blog, I decided to give this Twitter thing a try. So if you wish y...

I am back to hiring again, and though in no shape or form I feel like a know what I am doing, I figured out a few things from the past fe...

The original post was published on 6/7/2014, but updated with additional info following some great comments on 7/30/2013 When I was leavi...

My first employee has left the lab. It was planned and expected. She pledged to work with me and move from Boston to DC to help set up t...

The pricing of research items does not make sense to me. When I tried to buy a drafting stool for a high bench from Overstock.com for $110...