The New PI Sets Up a Lab

When I started this blog in 2012, I did it to make sense of my thoughts about starting my first faculty position as an Assistant Professor a...

This post has been sitting here since the Spring waiting for me to have time to finish it, and I decided to leave it as it was, pretending ...

I have spent most of the past year interviewing for academic jobs, exploring new opportunities and negotiating start-up packages. Never as b...

This was written last Spring as interviews started getting serious, but of course I couldn't talk about it.... Academic job transition...

I truly realized I was a New PI no more when I started looking for jobs 5 years in my tenure track. I wrote last year about whether the pre-...

As the new year starts the looming possibility of moving to a different university is stirring a lot of feelings and not all of them good. I...

A year ago I wrote about the struggle to keep different projects going in my lab. I've been working on two separate and related lines o...

This week I half-jokingly tweeted something that got a lot of attention and some negative responses. PI epiphany: please don't get u...

I have been spending a lot of time recently thinking about how universities differ and about how to find the right place for you. Like any ...

The #HiddenCurriculum hashtag has emerged on Twitter and reminded many of us who have been at this job a while how students and postdocs oft...

The thing about managing a project, any type of project, is that you cannot do it without the people who are actually doing the work. You ca...

Three months have probably been the longest time away from this blog since I started it. It's not that I didn't want to write, but ...

After discussing why you should care about Project Management (PM) in academia and that there are multiple PM techniques available , we can...

Guest post from Duc Phan, University of California, Irvine I am currently a PhD candidate in biomedical sciences. I developed a ke...

Sometimes I wonder what made me think that April 1 was a good start date for my faculty job! But here it is, the April Fool's PI once ag...