The New PI Sets Up a Lab

Parents of twins will probably laugh at my naivete, but as someone who always wanted two kids Mother with twins I always thought that t...

I have been spending a lot of time thinking about risk-taking behavior lately. Just a few months shy of two years I have six people in the l...

This is a somewhat unorthodox use of my blog, since this issue is only tangentially related to my science or lab management, but this is the...

In the middle of academic job season or right around when you're planning for your defense this Spring, you start thinking about jobs o...

Following DrugMonkey's lead I put together a year in review post, as dictated by the blog meme rules: -Post the link and first sentence...

I finally made it to the other side! Not only I have a faculty position, but I get to be involved in picking other faculty since I'm now...

This week there have been a lot of firsts which finally made me feel like a real professor. Since my teaching is still very limited, I just ...

In the comments section of my last post about networking at conferences  we discussed whether as an early trainee it makes sense to randomly...

The approaching madness of the Society for Neuroscience conference bringing 30,000 neuroscientists to DC had gotten me thinking about the re...

For the first time I am learning what it's like to be in the SfN host city and while everyone in the lab gets to go for cheap, the prep...

Dr. Yellow Shinkansen, Japan It's merit-based salary increase time at my institution and before I left for vacation at the beginning...