The New PI Sets Up a Lab

And there is goes: 2016 in posts...it sucked, and I should have guessed from how it started, but I'm starting 2017 on the upswing and wi...

I cannot deny that 2016 has been an annus horribilis at the personal and professional level, but I am trying to find some meaning out if it....

I never thought that these three little words could carry that much innuendo, but "Are you happy?" turns out to be one of the most...

My R01 resubmission went from scored to not discussed. I don't know why yet, but this hit me hard. My program officer had been very supp...

There are few posts in my queue right now, that will never see the light of day. They were born our of anger and confusion and anxiety lac...

The more I move forward in this crazy voyage which is the tenure track, the more I realize how absolutely critical your personnel is. I have...

Today should have been a good day... A very nice review article which took a lot of effort in the past couple of months was accepted and fo...

"...I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost." (adapted from D. Alighieri, Inferno, Cant...

There is nothing quite as exciting as your trainee getting their own money. Apart from the obvious financial benefit to the lab and a lessen...

The Scream - E. Munch (Google Art Project) The hashtag #academicselfcare reminds you that it is your responsibility to take care of your...

Academic Speakeasy will be a monthly appointment to privately and anonymously discuss academic life and struggles (see blog post ). This is ...

In the past few years I posted several times about the struggles I'm facing in academia. I am always really scared of putting my though...

I have been thinking a lot about quitting recently. As I wrote in a very hopeful post the day before I started my faculty position, thinkin...

I have multiple posts at various stages, but lately the time is lacking. I feel exhausted and unproductive, being pulled in a hundred differ...

With one R01 application waiting for additional experiments before resubmission and one R01 submitted, I received the dreaded email from the...