The New PI Sets Up a Lab

I promised I would start this year on a more positive note  going back to the original goal of my blog, learning how to manage a research la...

Some days on Twitter it sounds like the academic scientific community is cold and competitive with a few evil overlords sitting on piles of ...

Is resilience the name of the game in academia?  was the title of a very popular post from last year which opened a wide discussion on how m...

As you go on campus visit for grad school or faculty positions you not only have to decide if this is the university for you, but also wheth...

Many people have been posting on Twitter about their accomplishments in 2017. My biggest one is that I have survived with the mental health ...

For the past few years, I have been struggling to reconcile my tendency to build large complete stories for publication and the need to show...

The blog just turned 5 in November. I missed the actual birthday because it was a crazy month, but I've been thinking about this milesto...

My last post focused on how to motivate lab members during the last stretch of the tenure track and it spurred by far the most lively and i...

It's time to revamp my Society for Neuroscience (SfN) restaurant list. So much has happened since 2014 and you now get to go East of th...

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...