The New PI Sets Up a Lab

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

A recent NYT article on women being criticized in workplace reminded me of the time I received a lecture on how not to be a bitch. We were...

I should be working on a grant, but I don't feel like it. So I am going to write something else. This is the season when academic job p...

Wikipedia defines a pilgrimage as "a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs" and I would a...

I have read several posts on how a new female faculty should dress (good ones  here , here and here ), but since I come from a European co...

There has been a lot of chatter last night and today on Twitter about the SfN2014 embargo policy to hold communications about presentation u...

"Who am I?" is the question I have been pondering in the past few days after attending a conference I have attended religiously...

As my team grows I have been fretting not only about finding the best people, but finding the best people who are compatible with each othe...

I've done some thinking about the science pipeline this week: a thought-provoking blog post by Sergey Kryazhimskiy (@skryazhi) asked w...

If you have never read “Stress in biomedical research: six impossible things” , you should read it right now. Not kidding. Go...

My blog has had an empty post labeled “Women in science” for a very long time, but as I collected ideas and links, I was never ...