The New PI Sets Up a Lab

Project Management (PM) is a full-fledged discipline which focuses on the planning, execution, and completion of projects. In large ...

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...