The New PI Sets Up a Lab

Lately I have spent a lot of time thinking about expectations and "fit" in academia. We are interviewing faculty candidates and a ...

As usual there is some fierce debate going on on Twitter and this time it's about about preprints (non-peer-reviewed manuscripts made pu...

Note. Since I've been accused on not being fair and thinking of other people as less worthy by asking them to do chores for me, which is...

The second R01 is done and it was very different from the first one. The first one was very hard to write, in the sense that the choice of...

Unstable cliffs This blog post has been brewing in my head for several months. I've been reticent because as a rule I try to be very...

The rules for the "year in review" post are simple: -Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each month of...

I have written a lot about my confusion in defining my identity as a new PI. I work on a couple of different things and in both cases these ...

Sometimes insecurity and impostor syndrome work to your detriment. When I started approaching the new NIH biosketch Contribution to Science ...

My first R01 submission is now complete (review, summary statements and PO discussion) and I am entering resubmission mode. As I start think...

A guest post from PharmaFriend about a day in her life in big pharma medical communication, aka marketing (Sunday 11/8).  BTW, this was her...

A few weeks ago I launched this challenge to blog a day in the life of a new (or not so new) academic lab head ( here ), so that new PIs wou...

Jan Bruegel the Elder - Landscape of Paradise and Loading of the Animals on the Ark I wish things were as simple as Dr. Jon Lorsch, dir...

This past year I was part of a mentoring program for female postdocs at a neighboring institution, when I met with my mentee every month to ...

I launched the "day in the life of a new PI" challenge a few weeks ago to see what the days of principal investigators are like at...

A couple of weeks ago I suggested a series of posts based on "a day in the life of a newish PI" . The array of BS and of random th...