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I am presuming most people who are reading are former Academic Jungle enthusiasts, but I might be mistaken. While stats say that people do read, I get considerably fewer comments than I used to over at Academic Jungle, even on posts that do solicit reader input. That puzzles me! And being puzzled means I have…
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In a comment to my recent post, “Musings on Networking,” TheGrinch asked: Any advice on how to follow up / be in touch with new connections? How to follow up depends a little on what type of interaction you had. With some people you just had a nice brief chat, but you didn’t connect either…
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“Push It” by Garbage — I cannot describe how much I love this song. It is one of my all-time favorites. Today, it is doing a wonderful job blasting through my headphones and helping me finalize the revisions from hell on one of our manuscripts. “Push It” is a fitting title for a revise-and-resubmit anthem,…
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Presenting work at conferences is an important part of being a scientist. It falls under the broad umbrella of making your research known to the scientific community. Being able to create and deliver a good presentation is an inherent part of graduate and postdoctoral training. Let’s say you are a junior scientist — a graduate…
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Over the past few days, I have reviewed a small mountain of student conference abstracts, as the deadlines for two conferences where we usually have a strong showing are approaching. This exercise has reminded me of some of my favorite technical writing slips. — Don’t start a sentence with an abbreviation, i.e., don’t write “Eq.…
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In the comments to yesterday’s post, Academic Job Search — Know Who Thy Friends Are, reader MidCareerTenured asked a question about upgrading institutions mid-career: xykademiqz and other: What do you think the chances are for a midcareer tenured scientist to move from a very low ranking research institution to a quality R1? Assume a solid…
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