The New PI Sets Up a Lab

My last post about  getting back to the bench  and figuring out how much time a new investigator should take from teaching and admin work sp...

Some time ago I saw Huda Zoghbi give a talk describing her career path and mentoring philosophy. Huda is a giant in neurogenetics and neuro...

So many friends and colleagues have been posting on social media about how they feel that the world is spinning out of control, and that the...

My emergency contact is moving away. One of the friends who convinced me to move where I am was fired earlier this year for not having an R0...

Letting people go is one of the hardest decisions I had to make as an academic. Not only because it came with the feeling that I had failed ...

As I was going through one of the hardest days in my tenure-track experience , struggling getting grants and keeping projects staffed, a fri...

One of my mentors once said that women have a harder time letting projects go. Both as it relates to the level of perfection that needs to b...

I recently posted a pool on twitter about when to apply for a new faculty position when you already have one. Discussing w/ friend when t...

At a recent personal effectiveness workshop I attended I was asked to look up the definitions of "authentic" in different dictiona...

The lab is turning 4 today! This year has been a heck of a ride. As I was going through posts from  Y1 , Y2 and Y3 , I realized how far I h...

There was a very lively discussion on Twitter today started by this tweet by Terry McGlynn @hormiga who has been a wonderful advocate for di...

In a recent post I went through some of the benefits of the  NIH Early Career Reviewer  program, which was developed by the Center for Scie...

Last year I applied to the NIH Early Career Reviewer program, which was developed by the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) to train scient...

I have been very worried about the distrust of science and scientific thinking that is creeping into the public and political discourse in t...