The New PI Sets Up a Lab

Despite the absolute madness of the past two months, I was still holding on to the hope I would be able to submit two R01s for the June dead...

Following the " Questions you should ask " for the faculty job search, I was asked for a similar post for the postdoctoral searc...

It's negotiation time! You have found a university you really like and they like you back, or maybe they like you and you're wond...

It's 730 days of being an Assistant Professor. After the absolute exhaustion and chaos of the first six months and the light at the end...

Now more than ever with horrible job prospects and abysmal funding rates your network can make you or break you in academia. People in your ...

As a new principal investigator, I'm always in a frenzy to promote my work, so that I'm going to establish myself in my field(s) pre...

When during your tenure track do you stop being a postdoc and a PI at the same time? I am struggling at the moment with being pulled in mult...

We are 18 weeks out from submission day and I have started putting all my ducks in a row to see if this crazy idea of submitting two R01s ...

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 ...